Zico Kolter
AI safety researcher
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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, an AI safety and security company.[4] In 2024, he was appointed to the board of directors for OpenAI, and became chair of its safety and security committee.[2][4] In 2025, he was named as a recipient of funding from Schmidt Sciences AI safety science program.[5]
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| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanford University |
| Occupations | Professor & Director of Machine Learning Department |
| Organization | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Website | zicokolter |
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]