Jeremy Zico Kolter is a professor at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

and director of its machine learning department. He focuses primarily on AI safety research. He is a co-founder and senior advisor of Gray Swan AI. In 2024, he was appointed to the board of directors for

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, and became chair of its safety and security committee. In 2025, he was named as a recipient of funding from Schmidt Sciences AI safety science program. Kolter earned his PhD in computer science at

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and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at

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. He joined the CMU faculty in 2012. His other corporate positions have included chief data scientist at C3.ai and chief expert at Bosch Center for AI. At CMU, he has worked on projects such as finding ways to automate assessment of large language model safety.

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Ziko Kolter (official website)
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