Olivia Shoemaker is an Adjunct Instructor at the Carey Business School, where she teaches Responsible AI.
Beyond Johns Hopkins, Olivia serves as a Lead Advisor for AI at Frontier Design. In this role, she has helped build an AI safety practice that has partnered with organizations such as the Frontier Model Forum, NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, and top U.S.-based AI labs. She specializes in bridging the gap between technical AI safety solutions and real-world threat models.
Prior to Frontier, Olivia served as a director at Taimaka, a nonprofit pioneering innovative social and technical solutions to combat acute childhood malnutrition in northeastern Nigeria.
Education
- MA, Security Studies, Georgetown University
- BA, Global Affairs, Yale University
Research
Selected publications
- Shoemaker, O. (2025, October 27). Olivia Shoemaker - Sandpaper Socks: Operational Considerations in AI Evals [Technical AI Policy]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEi9xCYGUnE
- Ackerman, G., Wilson, T., Kallenborn, Z., Shoemaker, O., Wetzel, A., Peterson, H., Danfora, A., LaTourette, J., Behlendorf, B., & Clifford, D. (2025, December 9). Biothreat benchmark generation framework for evaluating Frontier AI models III: Implementing the bacterial Biothreat Benchmark (B3) dataset. arXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08459
- Ackerman, G., Kallenborn, Z., Wetzel, A., Peterson, H., LaTourette, J., Shoemaker, O., Behlendorf, B., Almakki, S., Clifford, D., & Sheinbaum, N. (2025, December 9). Biothreat benchmark generation framework for evaluating Frontier AI Models II: Benchmark generation process. arXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08451
- Ackerman, G., Behlendorf, B., Kallenborn, Z., Almakki, S., Clifford, D., LaTourette, J., Peterson, H., Sheinbaum, N., Shoemaker, O., & Wetzel, A. (2025, December 9). Biothreat benchmark generation framework for evaluating Frontier AI models I: The task-query architecture. arXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08130
Teaching
Current
- Responsible AI
Impact and engagement
Business
- Lead Advisor for AI, Frontier Design