New Delhi, India

Aadil Aman.

Frontier AI · Pure Mathematics · Strategy & Operations

I work in the Pure Mathematics division at xAI (SpaceX), evaluating and extending the mathematical reasoning of frontier AI. Before that I spent twelve years running things: election campaigns, policy programmes, and academic operations at scale.

About

I work at the intersection of pure mathematics, frontier AI, and large-scale operations. I spent twelve years earning each part of that sentence.

Today I design research-grade evaluations of frontier-model mathematical reasoning: original problems built from contemporary mathematics literature, error analysis, and reasoning-gap completion. I grade model outputs against 50+ point rubrics, isolate the places where mathematical reasoning breaks down, and author the gold-standard solutions the model learns from. The program's hiring bar is advanced-degree mathematicians.

Before the AI frontier, I ran things. As COO of a political consultancy, I led campaign operations across three constituencies in the 2025 State Assembly Elections and won all three. At a specialist policy advisory, I was promoted from Senior Regional Manager to Assistant Director, leading nationwide policy initiatives. And at a leading EdTech platform during the pandemic's online-learning boom, I directed academic operations for 30,000+ students, helped design child-safety protocols deployed under a state-government partnership, and delivered ₹12.1 crore in cost savings.

My current focus is the emerging discipline of AI-assisted mathematical research: taking machine-suggested results to their generalized, human-verified conclusions. Publications are the goal.

Work
2026 · Present

Frontier AI Evaluation

Pure Mathematics division, xAI (SpaceX). Research-grade evaluation design, failure-mode analysis, and gold-standard solutions for frontier-model mathematical reasoning.

Hiring bar: advanced-degree mathematicians
2023 · 2026

Political & Policy Operations

COO of a political consultancy and Assistant Director at a specialist policy advisory. Campaign operations across three constituencies, nationwide policy initiatives, teams of senior managers.

Election record: 3 for 3
2014 · 2023

Operations at Scale

Academic operations for 30,000+ students at a leading EdTech platform, including child-safety protocols for online learning built under a state-government partnership during the pandemic. Earlier: media and communication strategy for corporate and government clients.

₹12.1 crore in delivered savings
Credentials
Integrated MSc, Mathematics · NISER Bhubaneswar2010 – 2016
Silver Medal, Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO)2009
UPSC Civil Services Examination · Interview stage, twice2018 · 2019
Project Management Professional (PMP) · PMI2023
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt · CSSC2024
Strategic Management & Leadership · Wharton Online2022
Writing
July 2026  Mathematics · AI

Teaching Mathematics to a Machine

What it means to evaluate the mathematical reasoning of a frontier AI, why the hardest failures are the fluent ones, and what this work reveals about understanding itself.

More essays on mathematics, AI, and institutions are on the way.
Off the Clock
Chess

Bullet Is My Vice

Playing since 2017, 1,200+ games and counting. One minute on the clock is exactly enough time to be wrong with confidence.

Under the Bar

A Recomposition in Numbers

Seven months, DEXA-verified: 93 kg at 37.4% body fat to 77.5 kg at 26.4%. Same method as everything else on this page: measure, intervene, verify.

Squat 115 · Deadlift 130 · Bench 70 (kg)
Military History

How Battles Are Won

Years of studying campaigns, from Cannae to the twentieth century. Logistics, terrain, and morale decide more than courage does.

Nuance over narrative, always
The Sky

Night Shift

Astronomy and quantum field theory, strictly for love. The mathematics that grades a model is the same mathematics that writes the universe.

The navy up top is the night sky