Ep. 8: Zico Kolter, OpenAI Board and CMU ML Director

Zico Kolter is the director of CMU's ML Department (ml.cmu.edu), and is on the board for OpenAI. He's also the co-founder and Chief Technical Advisor of Gray Swan AI, and is a Chief Expert at Robert Bosch. He mainly focuses on improving the safety and robustness of ML models, including applications like LLM security and better understanding the relationship between training data and resulting models. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at [email protected].​​Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.