Carlos Daragona Balhana

Technical Group Leader (Responsible Ai) @MITRE

Cambridge, GB

Lead cross-functional teams of engineers, developers, data scientists, and domain SMEs to develop and integrate generative AI capabilities in various mission-critical customer environments• Direct the development of LLM assurance frameworks for benchmarking safety, reliability, interpretability, and performance across multiple deployment contexts• Author technical strategies and governance policies to ensure compliance with organizational AI safety standards and government regulations• Lead the development and validation of novel proprietary LLM benchmarks to assess sensitive domain alignment and system bias• Manage the design and implementation of custom purpose-built guardrails and multi-stage safeguards for generative AI systems integrated into customer applications

Georgetown University

M.S., Linguistics

Kennesaw State University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Communication and Media Studies

University of Cambridge

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing