Zico Kolter

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J. Zico Kolter
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Kolter c. 2020
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
OccupationProfessor & Director of Machine Learning Department
Organization Carnegie Mellon University
Website zicokolter.com

Jeremy Zico Kolter is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and director of its machine learning department. [1] [2] [3] He focuses primarily on AI safety research. [2] He is a co-founder and senior advisor of Gray Swan AI. [4] In 2024, he was appointed to the board of directors for OpenAI, and became chair of its safety and security committee. [4] [2] In 2025, he was named as a recipient of funding from Schmidt Sciences AI safety science program. [5]

Kolter earned his PhD in computer science at Stanford University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [6] [3] He joined the CMU faculty in 2012. [3] His other corporate positions have included chief data scientist at C3.ai and chief expert at Bosch Center for AI. [3] At CMU, he has worked on projects such as finding ways to automate assessment of large language model safety. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Jeremy Zico Kolter". ACM Digital Library. Retrieved March 1, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "OpenAI appoints veteran AI professor Zico Kolter to board". Reuters . August 8, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 McCullougn, L. E. (November 4, 2024). "CMU's Zico Kolter shapes new paths for AI safety and security". Next Pittsburgh. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Emerson, Sarah (November 8, 2024). "This hacker team is bulletproofing AI models for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic". Forbes Australia. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  5. ↑ Heikkilä, Melissa (February 12, 2025). "Ex-Google chief warns west to focus on open-source AI in competition with China". Financial Times . Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  6. ↑ Robinson-Johnson, Evan (August 8, 2024). "CMU director Zico Kolter joins OpenAI board focused on safety". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on August 8, 2024. Retrieved March 1, 2025.
  7. ↑ Metz, Rachel (August 8, 2024). "OpenAI Names Computer Scientist Zico Kolter as New Board Member". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved February 22, 2025– via EBSCOhost.
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