About

Identity

Rumi Alexander Elías Calles is a research engineer and classicist in New York. He leads RL environments and post-training at micro1, and writes on machine intelligence, Greek, Latin, and philosophy of mind.

Current work

Director of Research Engineering at micro1. RL environments, rewards, eval loops, and post-training pipelines in production. Founder of Aeterna Institute. AI Researcher at the Wolfram Institute.

Adjunct professor at Fei Tian College. Ethics of computing and AI governance. Earlier: production NLU, then two years as a data scientist at The Epoch Times.

Research and training

Abliterator: steering LLM personality through activation engineering. PhiloBERTA: Greek and Latin lexicons. Speech-stack comparison on 300,000 AI interviews. De Suspensione: inflection, composition, and thought under generative models.

MA Humanities, Ralston College. BS Data Science, Fei Tian College. Latin and Ancient Greek immersion at Vivarium Novum. Greek residency at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, Návplion.