Full-Time
Ozzie Gooen
President & Researcher
Ozzie has a background in programming and research. He previously founded Guesstimate and worked at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.
Slava Matyuhin
Software Engineer
Slava is a software engineer for Squiggle and Metaforecast. He’s previously done rationalist and EA community organizing and teaching.
Nuño Sempere
Researcher
Nuño is currently applying forecasting and quantification/evaluation systems to longtermism. He has a background in forecasting and independent research, and was a summer fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute. He also publishes the Forecasting newsletter.
Nics Olayres
Executive Assistant
Nics has a degree in Applied Physics and experience in Materials Science and Engineering research, technical support, and teaching. She currently handles operational tasks at QURI.
Contractors
Sam Nolan
Researcher
Sam is a software developer for Squiggle and writes and refines cost-effectiveness analyses using the language.
Umur Ozkul
Software Engineer
Umur has a background in computer science, evolutionary programming, and functional language design. He is working on the Squiggle interpreter.
Board Members
Andrew Critch
Board Member
Andrew is the CEO & Cofounder of Encultured AI. He previously worked as a research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), an algorithmic trader at Jane Street, and a curriculum developer and cofounder at the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR). Andrew also founded the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative and cofounded the Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC).
Collaborators
Elizabeth Van Nostrand
Research Contractor
Elizabeth works with us on select posts around evaluation. She has also been a key part of our Amplifying Generalist Research experiment.
Eli Lifland
Research collaborator
Eli is an AI safety researcher, and previously a top Metaculus and Foretell forecaster. He has collaborated with Nuño on various research and practical forecasting projects.
Peter Wildeford
Advisor
Peter is co-Executive Director of Rethink Priorities.
Misha Yagudin
Research collaborator
Misha is a founding partner at Arb, a research consultancy that has worked for Open Philanthropy, Jacob Steinhardt, and others. He started collaborating with Nuño following their FHI Summer Fellowship.