Evening Star AI
Fellowships
Recognizing builders, researchers, operators, and technical leaders advancing practical AI systems for high-consequence environments.
Serious builders, reviewers, researchers, and operators can express interest in contributing to the Evening Star AI research agenda.
The Evening Star AI Fellowship Program recognizes contributors who help advance practical AI research in anomaly intelligence, adversarial AI security, vulnerability intelligence, AI governance, agentic automation, and decision systems.
Fellows strengthen the institute through papers, technical review, prototypes, evaluations, field insight, and disciplined translation between research ideas and operational use.
Fellowship Ladder
The ladder is designed for credible public recognition without diluting the institute. Each level is tied to contribution, judgment, and evidence of useful work. Recognition is contribution-based and does not imply employment, compensation, academic appointment, or legal affiliation.
Best for: New contributors, students, practitioners, builders, and technical writers.
A Research Contributor supports Evening Star AI through focused, lightweight contributions.
Best for: Active contributors who produce useful research or applied work.
An Associate Fellow is a trusted contributor who helps produce research outputs, prototypes, or technical analysis.
Best for: Serious researchers, engineers, security professionals, and applied AI builders.
A Fellow is a core contributor who can lead a research stream or produce substantial public work under the Evening Star AI banner.
Best for: Established experts, senior engineers, security leaders, AI researchers, and strategic advisors.
A Senior Fellow helps shape the direction of Evening Star AI's research and applied programs.
Best for: Highly respected experts whose association adds major credibility.
A Distinguished Fellow is an honorary or invitation-only role for people with exceptional expertise, influence, or contribution to AI, cybersecurity, national security, critical infrastructure, automation, or decision science.
Research Tracks
Each track gives contributors a clear lane for useful work without turning the program into an inflated title system.
Unsupervised AI, Isolation Forest, drift detection, weak-signal detection, and early warning systems.
Prompt injection, jailbreak detection, adversarial input detection, AI red teaming, and LLM threat modeling.
AI-assisted vulnerability prioritization, exploitability analysis, exposure intelligence, and Purple Radar research.
Confidence scoring, severity modeling, next-best-action engines, explainable recommendations, and human-in-the-loop decision support.
AI agents that monitor, summarize, classify, triage, and assist human operators.
AI risk management, auditability, model and agent governance, human approval points, documentation, and responsible deployment patterns.
Domain-specific systems including Purple Radar, Purple Firefish, Candles Edge, and future Evening Star AI prototypes.
Advancement Criteria
Papers, briefs, notes, benchmarks, or technical analysis.
Prototypes, demos, tools, code, datasets, or evaluations.
Quality, rigor, clarity, and usefulness.
Relevance to Evening Star AI research areas.
Ability to explain complex ideas clearly.
Responsible AI, security awareness, and professional conduct.
Awareness of risk controls, accountability, auditability, policy constraints, and human oversight.
Mentoring, reviewing, guiding, or leading workstreams.
Contribution Tracks
Short papers, technical briefs, operating principles, and executive-readable research notes.
Applied lab systems, model evaluations, detectors, decision workflows, and governed agent patterns.
Review, field context, threat modeling, domain translation, and responsible action design.
Evening Star AI fellows should help produce work that could matter in real systems: clearer anomaly evidence, safer LLM workflows, better vulnerability judgment, more useful decision engines, or governed automation that respects human accountability.
Become a Fellow
Evening Star AI welcomes serious contributors who want to help build practical AI systems for high-consequence environments.
Send a short note with who you are, your area of interest, relevant background, what you want to contribute, and links to prior work if available.
The Fellowship Program is designed for contributors, collaborators, reviewers, builders, and advisors. It does not imply employment, compensation, academic appointment, or formal legal relationship unless separately agreed in writing.