Zico Kolter

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]

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.com

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]