Email JuliaJulia Galef
President and Cofounder
Julia is a writer, blogger, and public speaker focusing on science and rationality, and the co-host of the official podcast of the New York City Skeptics, “Rationally Speaking.” She holds a degree in statistics from Columbia University.
Anna Salamon
Executive Director and Cofounder
Anna has previously done machine learning research for NASA and applied mathematics research on the statistics of phage metagenomics. She holds a degree in mathematics from UC Santa Barbara.
Michael Smith
Curriculum Developer, Chief Financial Officer and Cofounder
Michael has extensive experience with teaching and curriculum design, both in and out of academia. He holds a masters degree in math from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in math & science education from the University of California at San Diego.
Andrew Critch
Curriculum Developer, Chief Marketing Officer and Cofounder
Andrew is a Ph.D student in mathematics at UC Berkeley, specializing in the algebraic geometry of machine learning models. He co-organized the first COGS causal inference symposium, and ran a highly-attended rationality seminar for math grad students. Read more…
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Curriculum Consultant
Eliezer has written extensively on rationality, including the most-reviewed Harry Potter fan fiction on the internet, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and a sequence of articles on reasoning, biases, probability theory, and philosophy of science.
Paul Christiano
SPARC Program Manager
Paul Christiano recently finished an undergraduate degree in mathematics at MIT. His research on algorithms and cryptography has been presented at top conferences in theoretical computer science. In 2008 he was one of six students to represent the U.S. at the International Mathematics Olympiad. Read more…
Yan Zhang
Curriculum Consultant and SPARC Instructor
Yan Zhang is a graduate student in mathematics at MIT and co-founder of Vivana.com. He was the 2002 USA Computing Olympiad U.S. Open national champion, a member of the USA International Math Olympiad team, and captain of Harvard’s ACM programming team. Read more…
Leah Libresco
Curriculum Developer
Leah graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in political science and previously worked in Washington DC doing statistical analysis for a policy firm. Read more…
Kenzi Amodei
Operations Manager
Kenzi has worked as a professional stage manager throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a BA in theatrical stage management from Stanford University and a BS in biology from the University of Oregon.
Dan Keys
Dan has conducted research on the psychology of judgment and decision making and published a paper on the science of human rationality. He holds a master’s degree in social psychology from Cornell University and a BA in mathematics and statistics from Swarthmore College.
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