Professional

I graduated in 2022 from MIT with a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in computer science. I’ve also dabbled in economics and philosophy.

You can find my complete thesis here, the thesis-based paper I submitted to AI Ethics and Society here, and a blog post I wrote summarizing both here.

Selected past jobs:

• Data analysis and policy at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology
• ███████ at In-Q-Tel
• 5G and AI Policy at White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Reinforcement learning to model human behavior at the MIT Computational Cognitive Science group
• Playing around with TensorFlow at Cerebras

Projects

• plugging in a USB: what’s the worst that can happen?. Where some friends and I use a Raspberry Pi Zero to inject malicious keystrokes into my computer. For MIT’s Computer Systems Security class (6.858).
• deep learning with satellite data. A writeup of the landslide detection project I did as a visiting researcher at University of Sannio.
• building an arduino sleep tracking device. An amateurish IoT project with some friends for MIT’s Embedded Systems class (6.08).
• using LSTMs to imagine how Shakespeare would have rapped. My first ever real programming project.

Publications

• Max Langenkamp, Securing Benchtop DNA Synthesizers, Institute for Progress, December 2024
• Richard Moulange, Max Langenkamp, Sam Curtis, Tessa Alexanian, Morgan Livingstone. Towards Responsible Governance of Biological Design Tools, NeurIPS 2023 RegulatableML workshop.
• Max Langenkamp, Clarifying the Problem of DNA Screening. SSRN
• Max Langenkamp, Melissa Flagg. AI Hubs: Europe and CANZUK, Center for Security and Emerging Technology
• Max Langenkamp, Allan Costa and Chris Cheung. Hiring Fairly in the Age of Algorithms, SSRN
• Silvia Ullo, Max Langenkamp, Tuomas Oikarinen et al. Landslide Geohazard Assessment with Convolutional Neural Networks Using Sentinel-2 Imagery Data IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2019