Vladimir Osipov
INTRO
EXPERIENCE
Excession Labs
co-founder · October 2026 to nowPenetration tests, security audits and AI red teaming. excessionlabs.ai
- Also: AI inference 4 to 10 times faster on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.
Project25 Inc.
co-founder · December 2025 to October 2026An autonomous system that produced content on real devices. project25.live
- US$350k SAFET with HomeDAO, December 2025.
- Worked with YourEra (US) and Remi.
- US$50k monthly run rate. Then I moved to security, a larger market.
ReflectAI
co-founder · February to March 2025Three of us built an AI agent that spoke with a company’s customers by phone. It won the AI Engine hackathon.
- Investor talks: Bessemer Venture Partners, Zero Prime.
P10Y
productivity research · January to July 2025Customer research for P10Y, which studies the productivity of software engineers.
- With Yegor Denisov-Blanch (Stanford Software Engineering Productivity study), under NDA.
AWARDS
AI Engine: UK University Hackathon.
1st among more than 200 participants from UCL, Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial. London, February 2025.
ETH Oxford.
3rd-place prize from Ava Labs. February 2025.
AI for Good hackathon.
2nd. Eurasian Hub, November 2024.
School olympiads, Russia.
Prize winner, National Data Analysis Olympiad (DANO). Certificate of honour, National Mathematics Olympiad.
PROJECTS
NewtonCards, 2024 to 2025.
AI flashcards. UCL AI Foundry incubator.
StellaRamp, 2024.
Moves money from African mobile wallets to Stellar.
Rattleback, 2023.
A model of a top that spins one way only.
Clockwise, it stops and turns back. Flick it, or:
Smaller projects.
A campus-tours app on the App Store (code), a lead finder in Python, and a script that trades on the news.
EDUCATION
University College London
London, UK · expected June 2027BSc Mathematics and Statistical Science, third year.
Moscow State School 57
Moscow, Russia · June 2024Mathematics track. GPA 4.8 of 5. National mathematics exam: 100 of 100, top 0.45%.
- In 2023 I taught evening mathematics classes there, as a volunteer, and wrote two olympiad problems.
IMS School
Limassol, Cyprus · June 2024International A Levels: A*A*A, self-taught.
- Oxford MAT (exam only): 78 of 100.
WRITING
AI judges give higher scores to longer forecasts, not to more accurate ones.
When an AI model plays a person, its answers change at the wrong times.
Simulated Users Get the Time Course Wrong · CALE-AI
A forecast shows what comes with an action, not what the action causes.
A model trained before the Iran war reads the President’s posts. We test it against the oil price 10 minutes later.
Reading the President’s Iran-War Posts with a Pre-War-Cutoff LLM · FinFM
AI bank-support agents follow their written procedure even when a step in it is unlawful.
The Procedure Comes First · FinFM
Three articles. I write them to check that I understand a thing.
But do LLMs think?
8 November 2024Does GPT-4 solve coding tasks, or remember them?
Elliptic Curves in 5 minutes
6 October 2024How adding points on a curve gives keys and signatures.
zk-SNARK: QAP
5 August 2023How an equation becomes a proof that hides its inputs.
ENVIRONMENT
| LANGUAGES | English (TOEFL 107), Russian (native). |
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| PROGRAMMING | Python, C++, Swift, LaTeX. Beginner: Go, R, Rust. |
| TOOLS | OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Twilio APIs, Next.js, ComfyUI, Runpod. |
| INTERESTS | Debating, crypto, politics, venture capital, sports, travel. |
| vladimir@osipov.cc |