Rudolf Laine builds AI systems at Thinking Machines Lab after co-founding Workshop Labs, where he served as CTO. His work spans private model training, AI personalisation and research on language models’ situational awareness.
Rudolf Laine builds AI systems at Thinking Machines Lab after co-founding Workshop Labs, where he served as CTO. His work spans private model training, AI personalisation and research on language models’ situational awareness.
Career
Rudolf Laine studied at University of Oxford (Doctoral studies in Machine Learning) and University of Cambridge (Master’s degree in Computer Science).
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab from 2026-04 to PresentWorks on AI research and products focused on customizable, collaborative, and broadly useful AI systems.WLCo-founder and CTO at Workshop Labs from 2025-05 to 2026-04Built personalised AI systems and private post-training infrastructure. The team announced its move to Thinking Machines Lab in April 2026.
OEResearcher (contract) at Owain Evans Group from 2023-09 to 2024-06Developed the Situational Awareness Dataset to evaluate what language models know about themselves and their circumstances.
Visiting Researcher at Constellation from 2024-02 to 2024-03Participated in the visiting researcher program focused on risks from advanced AI.
Research Intern at MATS from 2023-06 to 2023-09Conducted AI alignment research in the Machine Learning Alignment and Theory Scholars program.CATeaching Assistant and Mentor at Cambridge AI Safety Hub from 2023-03 to 2023-04Mentored participants in the Cambridge Machine Learning for Alignment Bootcamp on neural networks, transformers and interpretability.
Software Engineering Intern at Amazon from 2021-06 to 2021-09Completed a software engineering internship in Edinburgh.OResearch Intern at Oxehealth from 2020-07 to 2020-09Completed a research internship in Oxford.