Ria Deane

A software engineer and high-agency generalist. I have run operations inside a large, politically complex institution.

I work on AI governance. I founded and maintain airegulationmap.org and completed BlueDot's Frontier AI Governance course. Before that I was elected to represent 6,000 engineering students in the governance of one of Latin America's largest universities, where I ran daily casework and argued student cases to faculty leadership.

AI safety & governance

airegulationmap.org

An open-source interactive map of how 196 countries regulate AI, scored across six dimensions with sources, and refreshed each month by an automated Python and Claude pipeline.

Monitors are Fragile under Information Asymmetry

A study of how AI control monitors fail when an attacker uses a vulnerability they have not seen before. We found that monitors lean on explicit prior knowledge rather than general reasoning, so evaluations against known attacks can overstate the safety they provide.

Credentials

  • BlueDot Frontier AI Governance Course 2026
  • ML4Good residential programme 2024
  • Global Challenges Project residential 2024
  • EA UC Chile advisor, tensortrust.ai competition co-organiser 2022–24

Operations & engineering

Engineering Student Council, UC Chile

Elected by direct vote of 6,000 engineering students to a seat with voice and vote on the Consejo de Facultad, the faculty's highest governance body. Ran daily triage on live escalations, supported around 800 students over the year, and represented students through 25 high-stakes retention proceedings before the university councils.

Engineering roles

  • ZeroFox Software Engineer · 2025–present

    Eliminated 95% of support tickets for 18,000+ users by automating enrolment; shipped MSSP product functionality and a Facebook Data Deletion API. Co-ran the internship programme and founded the Gender Equity Guild.

  • Social Listening Lab (SoL) UC Head of Development · 2024–25

    Led a three-person team building a social media analysis platform processing 15,000+ daily interactions around the Chilean presidential election and energy policy.

  • ConsiliumBots Full-stack Engineer · 2023–24

    Led Domus (React, Django), an ML-backed platform matching 45,000+ households to government housing subsidies.

  • UC Chile Teaching & Research Assistant · 2020–23

    Mentored 700+ students across 13 courses; co-authored a CEUR-WS paper on tuberculosis classification from CT scans (ImageCLEF 2021, 7th globally).

Contact

The best way to reach me is email. I am relocating to London in late 2026 and can work in the UK and EU without visa sponsorship.