$ Whoami

Aka the quantum warlock, the masked camel, the fanOfThermodynamics, the whale orchestra conductor, or just Sckathach. I’m a french student at Télécom SudParis, and soon, an AI researcher!

I love mathematics, physics, graphs theory, AI, cybersecurity, graphs, geopolitics, thermodynamics (yes, I swear), programming, and especially graphs.

I’m currently fan of mechanistic interpretability, but there is a high risk I become fan of SLT instead.

My favorite paper (asof December 2024, (still true Oct 25)) : Toy Models of Superposition.

Social media I use arranged in descending exponential order:

  • GitHub / Sckathach
  • Discord
  • LinkedIN / thomas-winninger
  • X / sckathach

You can contact me using: thomas [dot] winninger [at] telecom-sudparis [dot] eu

Download PDF resume: in English.

Research work

Education

  • 2025 - 2026 - Master MVA - ENS Paris-Saclay
    Topology, optimal transport, RL, training and deploying large-scale models, LLM, GNN, learning for protein science, convex optimization.

  • 2022 - 2026 - Engineering Degree - Télécom SudParis
    Telecommunications, cyber security, cloud, information theory, probability, optimization, graph theory, GNN, signal processing.

Experience

  • Jul - Sep 2025 - Research internship in LLM security - NICT
    Security and jailbreak interpretability on reasoning LLMs.

  • Mar - May 2025 - Research internship in AI explanability - INRIA
    Verified robust explanation for language models.

  • Jul - Dec 2024 - Research internship in AI security - Thales
    Implementations and improvements of state-of-the-art attacks on LLMs.

  • 2022 - 2024 - Training and infrastructure - HackademINT
    Teaching (cloud and AI security), cloud management (Kubernetes), creation of challenges (AI & quantum physics), and organization of 404CTF 2023 & 2024.

Misc

  • Languages: Python, French, OCaml, English, Typst, TypeScript, Lua, Rust, C, Bash, Japanese (JLPT 4), Lean
  • Tools/ Frameworks: PyTorch, nnsight, Docker (Podman), Kubernetes, React, Qiskit, Archlinux :), (see my GitHub for more)
  • Other interests: Piano, guitar, teaching, reading, geopolitics, particle physics :), sports, video game (playing & development), meditation
  • Followed ARENA and AISF