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

International Programme on AI Evaluation
ValgrAI · Expert Diploma (Full Scholarship) · 2026 (in progress)
15 ECTS Expert Diploma from the Valencian Graduate School and Research Network of Artificial Intelligence on AI evaluation capabilities and safety. One of 40 students selected from 700+ applicants, on a full scholarship from Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy).
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
Papers associated with the Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey:
  · Understanding the experiences and perspectives of patients, ERJ Open Research (2025)
  · Physical and Psychosocial Impacts on Health-Related Quality of Life, Pulmonary Circulation (2026)
  · Groups 2 and 3, Pulmonary Circulation (2026)
• Governing Automated Strategic Intelligence, arXiv (2025)
Letters
• Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey: A Call to Action, Pulmonary Circulation (2025)
Abstracts
• A longitudinal study of digital walk tests in the community, European Respiratory Journal (2025)
• The Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey: Group 2 & 3 PH, European Respiratory Society (2025)
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.