Tommaso Cerruti

I am an MSc student in Machine Intelligence at ETH Zurich. Previously, I was a Software Engineer Intern at Amazon in the Alexa AI team, where I developed a service to improve the NER capabilities of Alexa AI. I received my BEng in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, where I was part of the Young Talents Program and was awarded the Agon Scholarship following my national and international achievements in rowing, including an indoor rowing world record.

I am interested in the evaluation, monitoring, and alignment of autonomous AI agents, especially in reasoning-heavy settings. In particular, I am interested in how we can distinguish genuine alignment from behavior that only appears aligned during evaluation. I have also served as a reviewer for the ICML workshops "Compositional Learning: Safety, Interpretability, and Agents" and "Trustworthy AI for Good".

Outside of research, I enjoy sports (rowing, muay thai, weight lifting, hiking) and travelling (the picture on the right was taken in the Sahara Desert, in Morocco).

(Last updated: April 2026)