Sefika Ozturk

# builder of odd & useful things

Hi! I'm Sefika. I love building things: underwater robots that dive 200m into the sea, a multi-agent RL environment for the Polytopia game (grand prize @ HackMIT 2025), a fermionic quantum information library for Python, and a disinformation-literacy game funded by the US State Department when I was 17.

I'm a Computer Science & Math student at Vanderbilt, where I'm an Ingram Scholar and part of the Center for Entrepreneurship. Previously: award-winning data journalism at The Vanderbilt Hustler.

Currently I'm a co-founder at Invariant, building agentic infrastructure — and an AI research intern at Good Start Labs, working on evals research for AI safety.

📍 Based in San Francisco for the summer.