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 zkolter@cs.cmu.edu.​​Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) is the most talent-dense community of engineers and researchers in the world. They’ve hosted events across the Bay Area, including both Stanford and Berkeley. Past event co-hosts include partners at Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and one of the first ten employees at Cursor. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of video interviews with top researchers/engineers in order to help share their experiences and reach a broader international audience.