Bertie Vidgen

Co-Founder

United States10 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI evaluation and benchmarking.
  • Extensive research experience at top institutions.
  • Advisor on online safety legislation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI research and online safety.

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About

Data to create more helpful, advanced and safer AI systems. I work on evals and benchmarking, with experience in both product and research. You can check out my Google Scholar to see my research interests: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=yRhnVoIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao And my personal website: https://bertievidgen.com/

Experience

Mercor

AI Research

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos

Contextual ai

Data + Evaluation

Jan 2024Jun 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Activefence

AI Product

May 2023Aug 2023 · 3 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

The alan turing institute

7 roles

Visiting Researcher

Aug 2022Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Head of Online Safety Research

Promoted

Nov 2021Aug 2022 · 9 mos

Research Fellow in Online Harms

Feb 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

Postdoctoral Researcher

Promoted

Feb 2019Jan 2020 · 11 mos

Enrichment Student

Sep 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Visiting Student

Oct 2016Aug 2017 · 10 mos

PhD Research Intern

Jun 2016Sep 2016 · 3 mos

Uk house of lords

Special Advisor on Online Safety

Sep 2021Dec 2021 · 3 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

  • Advisor to the Pre-Legislative Scrutiny Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill.
  • See the Committee's report: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/8206/documents/84092/default/

Rewire

CEO and co-founder (acquired)

Feb 2021Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

University of oxford

2 roles

Visiting Researcher

Promoted

Feb 2019Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Doctoral Student

Sep 2015Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Self-employed

Advisor

Jun 2016Jul 2024 · 8 yrs 1 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

  • Projects for Meta, Google, Qualcomm, Amdocs, Amdocs Ventures, ActiveFence, M&C Saatchi, MLCommons, Ofcom, and others.
  • Angel investor in 4 AI startups.

Education

University of Oxford

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Jan 2015Jan 2019

University of Essex

Master's Degree — Government

Jan 2013Jan 2014

University of Warwick

B.A. (Hons) — History and Politics

Jan 2010Jan 2013

Pate's Grammar School

High School

Jan 2007Jan 2009

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