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Dr. Mateo Rojas-Carulla is the Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Lakera. With over 10 years of experience in artificial intelligence, Mateo has worked on building large language models in the industry, conducted leading AI research at Meta's FAIR labs, and was a software engineer at Google.

Day Zero: Building a Superhuman AI Red Teamer From Scratch
This series explores the challenges of AI red teaming, why traditional security approaches fall short, and what it takes to build an AI red teamer that surpasses human experts.

Mateo Rojas-Carulla
March 27, 2025

Not All mAPs are Equal and How to Test Model Robustness
Model selection is a fundamental challenge for teams deploying to production: how do you choose the model that is most likely to generalize to an ever-changing world?

Mateo Rojas-Carulla
November 13, 2024

Stress-test your models to avoid bad surprises.
Will my system work if image quality starts to drop significantly? If my system works at a given occlusion level, how much stronger can occlusion get before the system starts to underperform? I have faced such issues repeatedly in the past, all related to an overarching question: How robust is my model and when does it break?

Mateo Rojas-Carulla
November 13, 2024

Test machine learning the right way: Detecting data bugs.
In this second instance of the testing blog series, we deep dive into data bugs: what do they look like, and how can you use specification and testing to ensure you have the right data for the job?

Mateo Rojas-Carulla
November 13, 2024

Why we need better data management for mission-critical AI
In order to enable mission-critical ML applications, we need to create appropriate guidance for data management, both at the formal regulatory level and in our everyday best practices.

Mateo Rojas-Carulla
November 13, 2024

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