Sam Siavoshian

Awards

Winner · YC × Google DeepMind · Self-improving browser-agent RL

2026

1st · CipherHacks · Eliot, an AI bug-bounty assistant

2025

3rd · CipherHacks · Cyber Arena, an adversarial AI security benchmark

2026

Most Innovative · TritonHacks, UCSD · CoverAI (2025) and Agent Notch (2026)

2025 & 2026

Most Useful · SDx · Virex, a tweet-virality ML platform

2025

3rd · YC Corgi (S24) · Scrappy, an AI dataset generator

2025

USACO Gold Division · USA Computing Olympiad

YC AI Startup School · Hand-picked, 1 of 2,500, twice

2025 & 2026

4th in Asia · Robotex · Iran national robotics team

2019