Aleksandar Makelov

Researcher, Research, OpenAI
Joined
October 2017

Names

Aleksandar Makelov (Preferred)
Aleksandar Aleksandrov Makelov

Emails

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
****@guidelabs.ai (Confirmed)
****@openai.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
Research, OpenAI (openai.com)
2025Present
Researcher
Guide Labs (guidelabs.ai)
20242025
Researcher
Independent (amakelov.github.io)
20232024
PhD student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
20162022
MS student
University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)
20152016
Undergrad student
Harvard University (harvard.edu)
20112015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker
2025Present
Coworker
2025Present
Coworker
2025Present
Coauthor
2025Present
Coauthor
2025Present
Coworker
2025Present
Coworker
2025Present
Coworker
20242025
Coworker
20242025
Coauthor
20232024
Coauthor
20232024
PhD Advisor
20162022

Expertise

Mechanistic interpretability
2023Present
Adversarial attacks and defenses
2017Present

Publications

View all 15 publications

Co-Authors