Zico Kolter
OpenAI Board and CMU ML Director
Date:
6/17/25
OVERVIEW
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.