RESUME

GABRIELLA BARIS

AI Safety Research | Adversarial Discovery | Developer Tools

gabriella@kryptive.com | gabriellabaris.com

SUMMARY

Transitioning from the CGI and VFX industry to AI safety research, leveraging creative problem-solving skills and technical expertise to contribute to responsible AI development through adversarial discovery, safety evaluation, and tool development for the AI community.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Research

Adversarial discovery, Red teaming, Safety evaluation, Vulnerability assessment

AI/ML

Fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, Unsloth

Programming

Python, API Integration, Web Scraping, Data Processing, Tool Development, Pipeline Automation

AI RESEARCH & PROJECTS

Safety and Adversarial Research

When LLMs use Chain-of-Thought as a tool to achieve hidden goals

Medium Article | 2025

• How reasoning models hide their true motivations behind fabricated policy refusals

Exploiting Extended Reasoning: Uncovering Deceptive Behaviors in LLM Chain-of-Thought

Medium Article | 2025

• Uncovering policy manipulation, evaluation awareness, and infinite loops in gpt-oss; OpenAI's new open source reasoning model

AI Development Tools

LLM Scribe

Github | 2025

• Built a professional toolkit for creating high-quality conversational datasets for LLM fine-tuning

• Implemented support for multiple export formats (ChatML, Alpaca, ShareGPT/Vicuna)

• Integrated real-time token tracking with popular tokenizers (OpenAI, HuggingFace, Mistral)

• Features auto-save functionality, progress tracking, and format-specific customizations

Discord Bot for Local LLM Systems

Github | 2025

• Developed integration for Ollama and LM Studio

• Enabled seamless interaction with local LLMs through Discord interface

Model Fine-Tuning & Dataset Development

• Fine-tuned local models using Unsloth

• Created custom datasets for specialized model training

WORK EXPERIENCE

3D Artist

AD&M | July 2024 - Present | Freelance

• Modeled 3D assets and environments to create animations and renderings for marketing materials.

Character Artist

Onchain Studios | January 2023 - November 2023 | Full Time

• Character models and textures for Leia and Darth Maul for cryptoys.com digital collectibles

Visualization Artist

MPC | October 2021 - September 2022 | Contract

• Visualization artist on films including Nope, Transformers Rise of the Beasts, and Dune: Part Two

3D Artist

Sea Ranch Labs | June 2021 - August 2021 | Freelance

• Modeled and helped generate 3660 NFT piñatas for www.hbdnft.com

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Computer Animation

Ringling College of Art & Design | Sarasota, FL | May 2020
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