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Rumi Alexander Elías Calles is a research engineer and classicist based in New York. He leads research engineering for human-evaluation AI systems, and writes at the intersection of machine intelligence, classical languages, and philosophy of mind.
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Current work
He is Director of Research Engineering at micro1, where he designs RL environments and post-training pipelines: task specs, reward signals, evaluation loops, data curation, and preference or reward modeling used in production training. He founded Aeterna Institute, a classical liberal arts project organized around the Trivium, Quadrivium, and Socratic method. He is also an affiliate researcher at the Wolfram Institute, working on minds, machines, and intelligence, including conceptual spaces, machine ethics, and activation-level interpretability.
He teaches ethics and philosophy of computing as an adjunct professor at Fei Tian College, with emphasis on AI governance and privacy. Earlier he built production NLU and recommendation-evaluation systems, and spent two years as a data scientist at The Epoch Times on churn models, publishing pipelines, and NLP over unstructured content.
Research and training
Published work includes Abliterator, a framework for studying and steering LLM personality traits through activation engineering; PhiloBERTA, a cross-lingual transformer measuring semantic alignment between ancient Greek and Latin; a large-scale comparison of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech stacks on more than 300,000 AI-conducted interviews; and De Suspensione, on inflection, composition, and the outward drift of thought under digital memory and generative models.
He holds an MA in Humanities from Ralston College (full-tuition scholarship, intensive Greek residency) and a BS in Data Science from Fei Tian College. He completed linguistic immersion at Academia Vivarium Novum, where Latin and Ancient Greek were the spoken languages of daily life, and a Greek residency at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Návplion.