About
Daniel Spokoyny holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University with research focused on transformer architectures, training methods, and reasoning benchmarks. He has over a decade of experience in machine learning and natural language processing.
Daniel Spokoyny @daniel_spokoyny
Went for cute founder pic at YC sign. Got photobombed by @paulg . Does this count as office hours @ycombinator? https://t.co/vlAOrd1VlN
Feb 26, 2026 · ♥ 23 · ⇄ 1
Daniel Spokoyny @daniel_spokoyny
I’m embarking on a new journey. Trust-based scams—pig butchering, impersonation, romance, investment, employment, crypto—impact millions of people around the world to the tune of $100B+ each year. But statistics don’t convey the real extent of the human harm. I’ve heard these https://t.co/yryUb2YoBb
Feb 6, 2026 · ♥ 10
Daniel Spokoyny @daniel_spokoyny
Big life updates (batch size: 2): I defended my PhD last spring and wrapped up my postdoc this fall. It takes a village (and ~13 years) to raise one researcher. When I first started my journey in NLP research, it piqued my interest that you could represent discrete words in https://t.co/axmSll27CO
Jan 20, 2026 · ♥ 25
Founder & CEO at BeeSafe AIYC W26
Intro paths
Daniel went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran BeeSafe AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Daniel can intro founders to BeeSafe AI's investors below.
BeeSafe AI's investors · 3
Co-founders at BeeSafe AI
