Euan Baldwin

I’m Euan Baldwin. I work on making the development of advanced AI go well, as a project manager at SAIF^[1]. Before that, events at CEA^[2], and robotics and physics at Manchester, where I also ran EA Manchester^[3].

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Work & education

Safe AI Forum

Project manager

Jul 2026 – present

Centre for Effective Altruism

Events team

May – Oct 2026

EA Manchester

Chair

Sep 2023 – Sep 2025

The Corrie Hotel

Shift supervisor

Jun 2022 – Sep 2023

MSc Robotics

Distinction, ranked first in the cohort

Manchester · 2024 – 25

BSc Physics

First-class honours

Manchester · 2021 – 24

Robotics & AI

Verifying an autonomous warehouse robot

Simulation plus formal probabilistic verification for safety-critical behaviour.

MSc dissertation · 2025

Search & retrieval robot

A Leo Rover that explores, finds objects and brings them back on its own.

MSc group project · 2025

Lidar characterisation

How well the RPLIDAR A2M12 holds up for navigation on a small rover.

MSc project · 2025

Robotic object classification

Deep learning against local-feature pipelines on the same objects.

MSc coursework · 2025

A* path planner

Collision-free routes through mapped environments for a mobile robot.

MSc coursework · 2025

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

Karpathy’s course, worked through from scratch without high-level libraries.

Self-directed course · 2026

Technical AI safety course

BlueDot Impact’s structured overview of the technical field.

BlueDot Impact course · 2026

Robotics for sustainable cities

A talk on where robots can help with the UN’s eleventh Sustainable Development Goal.

MSc talk · 2024

Physics

Matter–antimatter asymmetry

CP violation in B-meson decays using LHCb data from CERN.

BSc project · 2024

Microlensing in Andromeda

Difference-image photometry hunting for transient events in archival data.

BSc project · 2024

Particle catalogue

The Standard Model as an object-oriented C++ codebase.

BSc coursework · 2024

Neutron scattering

Monte Carlo transport of neutrons through shielding materials.

BSc coursework · 2023

Other

Travels

I love travelling. Follow along on Polarsteps.

Polarsteps · ongoing

COVID-19 & deprivation in London

Did deprivation shape both mortality and how people perceived the risk?

A-level investigation · 2021

Gender inequality in physics

Why inclusion is a strategic need for the field, not only a moral one.