Zico Kolter
J. Zico Kolter | |
|---|---|
 Kolter at ICLR 2025 | |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanford University |
| Occupation | Professor & Director of Machine Learning Department |
| Organization | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Website | zicokolter |
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
[edit]- ^ "Jeremy Zico Kolter". ACM Digital Library. Retrieved March 1, 2025.
- ^ a b c "OpenAI appoints veteran AI professor Zico Kolter to board". Reuters. August 8, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
- ^ a b c d McCullougn, L. E. (November 4, 2024). "CMU's Zico Kolter shapes new paths for AI safety and security". Next Pittsburgh. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
- ^ a b Emerson, Sarah (November 8, 2024). "This hacker team is bulletproofing AI models for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic". Forbes Australia. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Metz, Rachel (August 8, 2024). "OpenAI Names Computer Scientist Zico Kolter as New Board Member". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved February 22, 2025 – via EBSCOhost.
