Olly Styles

ml-engineer.researcher.founder

Machine Learning PhD and startup founder focused on data and evals. Published 5 computer vision papers during my PhD at Warwick, including a journal in PAMI and a best student paper at CVPR-W. Cofounded Atlas AI, a computer vision startup that ran four years. Now building an AI alignment platform at Artanis.

— work

2024 → now
Artanis
Founding engineer. AI alignment platform for keeping model behavior consistent as products evolve.
2023 → 2024
Multiverse
Senior ML Engineer. AI-native learning platform.
2019 → 2023
Atlas AI
Cofounder & CTO. Computer vision startup for personal training.

— education

2017 → 2021
PhD, Machine Learning
University of Warwick
2013 → 2017
MEng Computer Science (1st)
University of Warwick

— publications

WorkBench: A Benchmark Dataset for Agents in a Realistic Workplace Setting
COLM '24
Styles, Miller, Cerda-Mardini, Guha, Sanchez, Vidgen
Multiple Object Tracking and Forecasting: Jointly Predicting Current and Future Object Locations
WACV-W '22
Kesa, Styles, Sanchez
Multi-Camera Trajectory Forecasting with Trajectory Tensors
PAMI '21
Styles, Guha, Sanchez
Multi-Camera Trajectory Forecasting: Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in a Network of Cameras
CVPR-W '20
Styles, Guha, Sanchez, Kot
•Best student paper•
Multiple Object Forecasting: Predicting Future Object Locations in Diverse Environments
WACV '20
Styles, Guha, Sanchez
Forecasting Pedestrian Trajectory with Machine-annotated Training Data
IV '19
Styles, Ross, Sanchez

— things I believe

— writing

Mar 2026
Alignment Will Be All That Matters
Jul 2025
Why Bikeshedding Kills So Many AI Projects
Mar 2025
Don't Write Prompts. Write Policies.
Jan 2025
Policy: The Missing Core of the AI Stack
Nov 2023
Your Startup Shouldn't Be a Rocketship
Oct 2023
Atlas AI: Post-mortem