Shiv Munagala

Data Scientist · Oxford MMath

I work as a Senior Data Scientist at Ocado Technology on logistics optimisation. Alongside industry work, I’m interested in how lessons from metascience and healthcare can inform the design and evaluation of robust AI systems.

Selected Projects

Agentic Security Benchmark
UK AISI · Arcadia Impact · Contract · 2025
Contributed capability evaluations for frontier AI models through AISI’s bounty program. Developed and evaluated agent scaffolds for variable malicious behaviour and evasion conditioned on user competence. This work was integrated into internal UK government risk assessment benchmarks for frontier AI systems.
AI Safety Evaluations
UK AISI · Arcadia Impact · Open Source · 2025
Contributed to the Inspect Evals suite of evaluations for frontier AI systems by implementing the MathVista benchmark.
PVRI Global Patient Survey Analysis
PVRI · Royal Statistical Society · Volunteering · 2024–Present
Lead statistician for a global patient survey in pulmonary vascular disease. Responsible for quantitative analysis across multiple research groups and for designing data access and governance structures that balance reuse with patient privacy.

Publications

Papers
• The Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey, European Respiratory Journal Open Research (2025)
• Governing Automated Strategic Intelligence, arXiv preprint (2024)
• Additional manuscripts in progress as part of the PVRI Global Patient Survey
Letters
• Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey: A Call to Action, Pulmonary Circulation (2025)
Abstracts
• Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey: Quality of Life, European Respiratory Journal (2025, conference abstract)
• A longitudinal study of digital walk tests in the community, European Respiratory Journal (2025, conference abstract)
Posters
• Findings from the Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey presented at ERS-2024 (Best Abstract in Patient Centred Research), WSPH-7, and PVRI-2024
Patent
• Measurement of Physical Stress Response. Lead inventor. UK Intellectual Property Office (submitted 2024)

Work Experience

Senior Data Scientist (2025–Present) · Data Scientist (2024–2025)
Logistics optimisation, automation, and central AI strategy.
Data Scientist · 2022–2024
Early data science hire working on physiological stress detection and end-to-end ML systems.