- Human Dynamics
Tobin is a PhD candidate at MIT on a Fulbright Future Scholarship advised by Prof. Alex 'Sandy' Pentland in the Human Dynamics group.
Tobin works at the intersection of data, privacy, AI, and society. In particular, focused on building privacy, security, verifiability, and regulatory compliance into frontier AI from first principles. His work has spanned across fields, from private data sharing to verifiable evaluations for large AI models. He has contributed to the recent work on regulation for generative AI and is keenly interested in working on practically deployable solutions to solve privacy and security challenges in a changing world of technology.
Tobin is a Fulbright Future Scholar from Australia, where he previously worked in both the public sector and startup ecosystems. Tobin helps manage the MIT bigdata Living Lab, an initiative of MIT Connection Science in Adelaide, Australia, which brings together community stakeholders and data to help local Australians builds tools and find insights from their own data.
Up to date information on Tobin and all his latest work and papers can be found on his personal website: tobin.page