Rumi Elías Calles

Director of Research Engineering

micro1 · Remote

Leading RL environments and post-training.

• Ship RL environments for production post-training: task specs, rewards, and eval loops
• Own post-training: data, reward models, and policy iteration
• Set standards for environment quality, training stability, and evaluation

Founder & Researcher

Aeterna Institute · New York, NY

Classical liberal arts: the Trivium, the Quadrivium, and the Socratic method.

• Founded the institute and its curriculum on the Seven Liberal Arts
• Coursework from primary texts and dialectic
• A small community of fellows

AI Researcher

Wolfram Institute · New York, NY

Research on minds, machines, and intelligence: conceptual spaces, AI philosophy, and consciousness.

• Machine ethics, bias, and explainability
• Abliterator: activation engineering for LLM personality
• Experiments in Mathematica and Python

AI Engineer

Stealth · New York, NY

Production LLM systems for natural language understanding and recommendation evaluation.

• LLM pipelines that lifted NLU quality about 40% across domains
• An evaluation platform for recommendation models that raised accuracy about 30%
• Model implementation through production

Adjunct Professor

Fei Tian College · Middletown, NY

Ethics of computing and AI governance.

• Courses on the ethics of computing, AI governance, and privacy
• Primary frameworks paired with data-ethics cases
• Course design and instruction

Data Scientist

The Epoch Times · New York, NY

Predictive modeling, data pipelines, and NLP for a publisher.

• Churn models that cut subscriber attrition about 20%
• Python and Hive pipelines that raised operational throughput about 25%
• BERT and clustering over unstructured content
• Automated reporting for executives
• Projects from framing through deployment
• Measurement and modeling with product and editorial teams

CTO & Executive Board Member

Students for Falun Gong · Remote

Technical lead for an international nonprofit.

• Multilingual site and servers
• International conferences and logistics
• Advocacy at the International Religious Freedom Summit
• Digital infrastructure and work with international teams

Data Analytics Research Assistant

UD Social Neuroscience Lab · Delaware

Statistical analysis in Python for social neuroscience experiments.

• PsychoPy tooling that sped up the lab's data pipeline about 30%

Data Scientist

Litespeed Technologies · Middletown, NY

Data mining and reporting for executives.

• Mining scripts that cut processing time about in half
• Analysis across company data streams

Data Analytics Alumni

NASA · Middletown, NY

Time series and geospatial analysis.

• USGS geospatial maps under NASA, UN, and USGS mentorship

Full-Stack Developer & Assistant Creative Director

The Werking Title Gallery · San Diego, CA

Web platform and client sites for a gallery.

• Shipped the gallery site and client sites

Ralston College

Master of Arts in Humanities

• Full-tuition scholarship
• Greek Language Residency
• Study in Greece and Turkey

Fei Tian College Middletown

Bachelor of Science in Data Science

• First place, hackathon
• Academic excellence award

Academia Vivarium Novum

Immersive Program in Classical Studies and Philosophy

• Lived in Latin and Ancient Greek
• Primary texts, philosophy, and rhetoric in the original languages

Wolfram Summer School

Certificate in Artificial Intelligence & Philosophy

• Research in AI and large language models
• Wolfram Language experiments

National Taiwan Normal University

Language Studies in Mandarin Chinese

• Huayu Scholarship recipient

Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University

Visiting Greek Scholar in Greek Studies

• Full-time Greek residency
• Seminars with visiting Hellenists

De Suspensione: Inflection, Composition, and the Long Drift Outward

Rumi Elías Calles · ResearchGate

On suspensio, the inner act of holding thought while form catches up, traced through Latin inflection, digital memory, and generative AI.

Uncovering Candidate Potential with Multi-Modal AI Assessments

Rumi Elías Calles et al. · ResearchGate

Our AI Match Score combines resume analysis, structured interviews, and role-specific evaluations to outperform traditional screening by 16% AUC and surface nearly twice as many qualified candidates.

From Plato to Pixels: Imagination, AI, and the Whole

Rumi Elías Calles et al. · ResearchGate

This philosophical exploration traces imagination's evolution from Plato's Forms through medieval theology to modern fragmentation, examining whether AI can truly simulate human creativity.

Evaluating Speech-to-Text x LLM x Text-to-Speech Combinations for AI Interview Systems

Rumi Elías Calles et al. · arXiv

Large-scale empirical comparison of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech combinations using data from over 300,000 AI-conducted job interviews; Google's STT with GPT-4.1 and Cartesia's TTS led on both quality metrics and user satisfaction.

PhiloBERTA: A Transformer-Based Cross-Lingual Analysis of Greek and Latin Lexicons

Rumi Elías Calles, Makai L. Allbert · arXiv

A cross-lingual transformer model measuring semantic relationships between ancient Greek and Latin lexicons, revealing significant alignments in philosophical concepts.

Identifying and Manipulating Personality Traits in LLMs Through Activation Engineering

Rumi Elías Calles et al. · arXiv

Introduces Abliterator, a framework for studying and manipulating personality traits in large language models through activation engineering.

Interlinea

Reading companion for Latin and Ancient Greek. Every word glossed, parsed, and linked to its sentence.

• Homer, Plato, Virgil and Caesar in the original, word by word
• Case-colored grammar and syntax links that rejoin scattered Latin word order
• Glaux, a step-by-step tutor that translates only when asked

Vertor

Translation workspace. Compose, translate, and refine literary text across models.

• Sentence-by-sentence streaming across Gemini, Claude, and GPT with paragraph-aware structure
• Word-level refinement: literal, natural, and lyrical alternatives
• Compose–translate–refine workflow on Next.js

Etymon.ai

Etymology engine. Morphological roots, with emphasis on classical languages.

• Morphological analysis for classical languages and semantic change
• React Flow graphs of linguistic relationships
• Gemini-backed morphological breakdown

Memento Vitae

Life in remaining weeks. Time allocation and mortality accounting.

• Life grid of about 4,000 weeks with current-week tracking
• Breakdown of how sleep, work, and habits consume remaining time
• Concrete counts: visits left, books, summers remaining

Loqui TTS

Local text-to-speech on Apple Silicon. Voice cloning, multilingual, no cloud.

• Voice cloning and 10-language support via Qwen3-TTS
• Metal GPU inference with live system monitoring
• React + FastAPI with in-browser model downloads

Latinium.ai

Latin tutor with live grammar analysis and interactive annotation.

• NLP grammar engine for case, tense, and syntax
• Hover annotations with model-backed tutoring
• Translation that preserves literary register

Gentleman's Codex

Guide to men's style. Cut, color, rules.

• Four-chapter curriculum with quizzes and style archetype assessment
• Outfit builder with compatibility scoring
• Color wheel and curated palettes

ColorLab.ai

Color analysis from selfies. Seasonal palettes and style guidance.

• Selfie analysis on Next.js
• Model-backed seasonal palette recommendations
• LangChain workflows for style guidance

LLM Abliterator

Toolkit for steering LLM personality through activation engineering.

• Identify and edit personality-related activation vectors
• Personality steering with low compute overhead
• Interpretability tests with ethical analysis

Ancient Greek Resources

Classical Greek texts, grammar, and lexicography.

• Annotated texts, grammar references, and lexicographical tools
• Spaced repetition for morphology
• Content standards aimed at classroom use