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3 | Photo | Name | Introduction | Research area(s) and interests | Current institution and location | Your needs (people, projects, opportunities) | Your gives (things you can offer to others) | Email address | Website(s) | Social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) | Preferred method of communication | ||||||||||||||||
4 | Alexandra Surdina | I'm a PhD student in mathematical moral psychology in the UK. I am interested in rationality, existential risk reduction, and EA. | Moral psychology, computational models of moral decisions, formal models of cognitive processes in general | University of Warwick, Coventry, UK | 1. moral psychologists 2. interesting, warm, driven humans to hang out with, especially in the UK :) 3. techniques how to read more effectively! 4. people with experience in model-building or interest in coming up with models of how things work | 1. data analysis skills 2. discussions on moral psychology and/or formal methods in social sciences 3. hugs :) | a.surdina@warwick.ac.uk | http://surdina.de | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexandra.surdina LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alexandrasurdina | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | Matthias Samwald | Assistant Professor (biomedical informatics) at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria Interested in all five overarching topics, especially effective altruism. | In general, I am interested in identifying simple, scalable and highly effective digital interventions that have signficant positive societal impact, e.g.: * (Medical) Decision Support Systems * Personalized medicine, drug safety, genomic medicine * User studies, mixed methods studies, web-based research, technology assessment * Decision support / quantified self approaches that motivate individual donors and stakeholders to donate to highly effective charities * Changing global scientific infrastructure and incentive structures to speed up scientific progress | Section for Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support, Medical University of Vienna, Austria | to be done... | to be done... (Co-)supervising theses (if you are located in Vienna) | matthias.samwald@meduniwien.ac.at | http://samwald.info/ | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matthias.samwald LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthiassamwald/en | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | Marcel Ackermann | Machine Learning Scientist at a Berlin based startup, working on multi-armed bandits and evolutionary algorithms. Previously scalable ML at Amazon and ranking at Microsoft Bing. I am interested in rationality, personality development and knowledge/learning. I am open for a PhD, but so far haven't found a suitable position (see needs). | Machine Learning (parts I am not really interested in: NLP, Computer Vision, Robotics), AI/AGI | ocono tech, Berlin, Germany | 1. a supervisor who enjoys working together with me and vice versa (ideally friends, good communication, is willing to spend time for guidance) 2. a specific topic I am passionate about (ideally I would like to stay very general within ML) | 1. decent ML background (started 2010, main focus) 2. eager to learn more, learning main motivation 3. strong software engineering skills 4. work experience in ML (since 2012) 5. computer scientist wanting to focus more on math | df-6wc@dreamflasher.de | http://marcel-ackermann.com | https://www.facebook.com/MarcelAckermann https://de.linkedin.com/in/dreamflasher | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | coming soon | Jun Kunz | Currently enrolled in undergraduate program for psychology at LMU (Munich University) working as a research intern in the social psychology department (with a lot of freedom on what to do studies on). Interested in rationality education (also as an high-impact area for EA) | Dual-process theory and Cognitive Biases, Decision theory, probabilistic reasoning, mindfulness meditation and its effects on noticing biases, vulnerability research, estimation of probabilities and all things that make us better decision-makers | LMU, Munich, Germany | 1.People who share interests in the research areas. Minds to bounce ideas around and receive feedback. 2.Interesting people who can challenge my beliefs or teach me something 3.Help in creating visual and scalable content for distribution over internet (videos, slides. I'm a terrible graphics designer) | 1.Interesting conversations (Curious listener and analyzer) over skype or in person 2.Theoretical model building 3.Fast learner and always craving for more information 4.Language skills (English,German,Japanese, peu de french, and a bit of chinese) 5.Anecdotal evidence for living in 4 countries 6.Badly sung songs for your entertainment ;) | jun.lorenzo.kunz@gmail.com | to be created | https://www.facebook.com/junlorenzo.kunz https://twitter.com/JL1NK | facebook or email | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Gregory Lewis | I'm a medical doctor and Master's student in the UK. Currently working in public health. Interested in biosecurity, Xrisk, and EA | 1) Health policy, esp. biosecurity. 2) Public health and epidemiology generally. 3) Interest (but not aptitude) in philosophy and ethics. 4) Novice in coding/compsci, but flirting with developing a medical app to guide a practicioner through advanced life support. | Cambridge University, UK | 1) Contacts in health policy/xrisk space 2) Coder looking for an (I hope!) fairly easy medical app project | 1. Data analysis and statistics 2. Career advice re. medicine 3. Generally in error, yet opinionated. | gjlewis37@gmail.com | www.thepolemicalmedic.com | email, fb | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | Tetiana Ivanova | UCL graduate with a BSc in Mathematics, after having worked for two years in an unrelated field I decided to go back into science and do something useful (ideally related to AI). Interested in rationality, EA, AI risk. | Research interests: deep learning (artificial neural networks), long term memory modelling, cognitive biases | London, UK | 1) People to speak to about trainsitioning into AI research 2) People to speak to, in general :) | Problem solving like a ninja, knowledge of maths/statistics along with some neuroscience and cognitive psychology, some basic coding skills (currently working on those), ability to explain things in plain terms (after two hours of heated arguments), excellent googling skills :) I am currently working through some statistics and machine learning texts and am planning to attend a machine learning bootcamp, so will be able to share those skills too | ivanova.tetiana@gmail.com | https://www.facebook.com/tanya.ivanova.167 https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tetiana-ivanova-1886b14 | email, fb, linkedin | ||||||||||||||||||
10 | Justin Kaeser | Working in software development in backend infrastructures. Considering pursuing a PhD in complexity science. | Making complex systems do stuff. I find there is little established knowledge on how to make systems of individual agents work towards a goal without central coordination. I want to change that. | Munich, Germany | . people working on or interested in self-organizing complex systems . links and literature to work being done in the area | . good old-fashioned software development skills and experience in data-heavy applications. May be convinced to supply these skills to your problems. . occasionally fresh perspectives on your problems | justin@hugme.info | https://www.facebook.com/justin.kaeser https://twitter.com/ebenwert https://de.linkedin.com/in/justinkaeser Telegram: @jastice | Telegram, Email, Facebook | ||||||||||||||||||
11 | ` | Vadim Kosoy | Friendly Artificial Intelligence researcher, MIRI Research Associate, computer vision expert & freelancer | Friendly artificial intelligence, in particular approaches informed by complexity theory. | Physical location Petah Tikva, Israel. I collaborate with the Machine Intelligence Research Institute at Berkley, California. | TBD | Discussion and collobration related to FAI; Whatever about math (knowlegeable in various fields including differential geometry, algebraic geometry, noncommutative geometry, category theory, complexity theory); Whatever about physics (knowledgeable in theoretical physics including quantum field theory and general relativity); Generally would gladly connect with anyone interested in effective altruism and/or rationality | top.squark@gmail.com | http://lesswrong.com/user/Squark/ | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008748870106 (feel free to send friend requests + a message about who you are); https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadim-kosoy-bb590a1; http://antisquark.tumblr.com/ | |||||||||||||||||
12 | Marcin Kowrygo | I'm a neuroscientist with the multidisciplinary background in biomedical and cognitive brain research. As a sociopolitical activist, I advocate for the open source, rational transhumanism. Currently engaged in building the Polish chapter of Effective Altruism and seeking a translational PhD opportunity which would utilize my competences in high-impact neurotechnology/AI risk research. | Neurobiology, artificial intelligence, cognitive enhancement and wireheading, practical rationality, (meta-)effective altruism, hacker culture | Krakow, Poland. Willing to work remotely, travel and/or move out. | 1) A top PhD program concerning the high-impact AI risk/neurotechnology research with a supervisor ensuring a supportive atmosphere and basic work-life balance 2) Ideas and protips on passive, (semi-)automated income 3) Connections. The more, the better. Say hello. :) | 1. Expertise in a wide range of neuroscientific studies. 2. Experience with novel technological solutions and personalized medicine (thanks to activity in the Quantified Self community). 3. Experience related to policymaking and NGOs. 4. Creative problem solving and dot connecting. | marcin.kowrygo (at) gmail.com | TBA | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kowrygo https://www.facebook.com/marcin.kowrygo | ||||||||||||||||||
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14 | Michael Niekamp | Behavioral and Experimental Economics, General Equilibriated Charity Evaluation, Moral Underdemandingness, (Critical) Effective Altruism | Managing Director at the Center for Business Ethics at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) | Looking for big data sets of charities and other welfare organisations, in particular reporting their total expenses sorted by receiving countries | Expertise in Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Moral Philosophy, Moral Psychology and Business Ethics | michael.niekamp@googlemail.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Julia Heuritsch | I did a Master in astronomy, but because I am unhappy with the current system of how research is performed, I now started a research job at the CWTS (Center of Science and Technology studies) in Leiden (NL) - a svcienc policy institute which performs research on research (so "meta-research" ;-) ) | Meta-Research, Finding ways how to imporve the research system, Human behaviour in general | CWTS (Center of Science and Technology studies) in Leiden (NL) | I am looking for people and ideas that would help to determine the problems of our current research system and ways to improve it | Preferably any discussion to do with academia & human behaviour, due to my education I can also offer: Data analysis skills, knowledge about (astro-)physics, maths skills | julia.heuritsch@gmail.com | https://www.facebook.com/julia.heuritsch | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | Laurens ten Cate | Finishing my Undergrad in Business&Finance at University of Westminster / Nyenrode new Business School. Right now I'm focussing on my Undergrad Thesis with which I decided to mix Cognitive Psychology with Risk analysis in Finance. I am sort of unhappy with the state of Economic and Financial modelling used by the majority of people and would like to improve them. Currently Risk assessment is my focus but I want to branch out in different directions in the future. Originally I am from the Netherlands but planning on moving to London permanently after spending the last semester there. | - Finance, Economics, Behavioural Economics/FInance, Automated trading through machine-learning. - Cognitive Psychology - Political Phylosophy - Rationalism - Effective Altruism - Scifi! Actually just books in general. | University of Westminster (London) & Nyenrode New Business School (Amsterdam) | 1.) Contacts/Help with my Undergrad thesis on how cognitive limitations influence risk assessment. 2.) Contacts/help with creating a model to try and fix some of these influences (second part of my thesis) 3.) Connections! Always on the lookout to meet new and interesting people to talk to! (A more expanded description of my undergrad thesis for the interested is in the last cell next to my contact details. Also if you have any questions please don't hesitate to email me!) | I'm still quite new to academia but I read obscenely much and like to think I bring a refreshing perspective to the table in discussions. Next to that I am quite proficient in Finance & Economics and Political philosophy is a hobby of mine. Due to my education I can offer; Problem solving skills in general (Consultancy cases were a huge part of the business part of my Undergrad), Data analysis skills, Research skills and ofcourse Google-fu! | Mail.laurens.tc@gmail.com | I am looking for people to help me with my Undergrad thesis. I'm researching the effect of cognitive limitations on risk-assessment, specifically in high risk industries such as finance. My thesis is divided in two parts where at first it is purely descriptive with some small sample tests to replicate orignal biases research but for the second part I am looking for a company/area to work with to create a model to reduce the effect of this on risk assessment. (think meta-cognition techniques & bayesian updating). Next to that I'm obviously also looking for interesting and smart people to talk to about various topics! | https://www.facebook.com/laurens.tencate.1 | Email or Facebook, doesn't really matter. | |||||||||||||||||
17 | David Kaltenpoth | Currently finishing my master's degree in math with a focus on probability theory and ML/AI; also doing some of everything on the side. | Currently mainly interested in AI (safety), formal philosophy, economics | LMU, Munich, Germany | 1) A PhD program in one of my fields of interest 2) Contacts. I'm very interested in talking to intelligent people | 1) Math. 2) A broad background in lots of things. 3) An open mind. If you can convince me that whatever you're doing is interesting, I'll gladly help out. | davidkwca@gmail.com | https://www.facebook.com/omBloss | Email, Fb | ||||||||||||||||||
18 | Ludwig Schubert | Pursuing a master's degree in computer science. Focus on AI and HCI; research on Crowdsourcing and Distributed Systems for high performance computing | # Research * Tooling (Better scientific tools should lead to better science) * Automated, antifragile infrastructure * Programming languages # Interests * Astronomy * AI; learning; networks; GAI * Portraiture * Layout and Typography | Stanford University, California, USA | Nothing essential for the next 1.5 years… maybe: * Summer internship opportunities 2016, either well-paid or in NY | * Photography, Layout, Programming Skills * Experience with web systems; infrastructure | ludwig@cs.stanford.edu | http://ludwig.schubert.io | https://facebook.com/longscale | Email, FB | |||||||||||||||||
19 | Jan Leike | Finishing a PhD on AIXI/AI safety in Australia. Will likely move to England to work at FHI or DeepMind in a few months | AI Safety, (general) reinforcement learning, AIXI | ANU, Canberra, Australia | Math-savy people who are interested in transitioning into AI safety | Tips on AI safety: places to go, people to talk to, things to learn, things to work on | jan.leike@anu.edu.au | http://jan.leike.name | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | Erik Erikson | MSc AI, Neural Computation U. of Edinburgh, since applying myself to commercial engineering | Modifying Hopfield networks using Hebbian to enable learning linearly inseperable relationships of increasing dimensions. Network structure specification, execution, and ongoing modification. Biological plausibility as a heuristic for continuous network model advances and insights. Identifying salient factors that have been abstracted from our models. Intelligence definition and intuition building. Rationality. World improvement. | Seattle, WA | Insights. Funding or some other transition toward expending my time on pursuing GAI. | software engineering expertise, real world exerience | erik.erikson@gmail.com | ||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Zhaslan Dochshanov | Software engineer. Have got my BS in Computer Science 1 year ago. Want to help with AI safety research. Considering pursuing PhD in math or math related.discipline | AI safety, no particular preferences now. | Astana, Kazakhstan. Not in academia. | PhD advisors People interested in AI safety research. People working on AGI. People working on AI safety. And just intelligent and open-minded people. Projects and PhD programs related to AI safety. Math mentors. | Software engineering skills. BS level math. Thinking, reasoning, rationality. | DragggonZ@gmail.com | https://www.facebook.com/zhaslan.doschanov.3 https://twitter.com/DragggonZ https://linkedin.com/in/zhaslan-doschanov-45752463 | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | Andrii Zakharov | Finishing my B.Sc. in Psychology, working as a research assistant at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Plan to apply for Masters in Statistics next year. Plan B is quitting formal education/academia and becoming a self-taught software developer/data analyst/homeless person :) | extremely broad! right now mostly: * (human) decision-making, particularly bounded rationality (reasoning under incomplete information/uncertainty, heuristics, biases) but also: * morality * ideology * intelligence * generally figuring out people and the world | Humboldt University, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany | * interesting people to talk to, both formally and informally | * interested ear to talk into ;) * thorough conceptual scrutiny of your ideas * aimless Berlin city walks * drumset playing techniques * Russian and Ukrainian languages if you need them for some reason | khaozavr@gmail.com | https://www.facebook.com/andrii.zakharov | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | Matthijs Maas | Finished my MSc in International Relations at The University of Edinburgh, after which I spent some time working for a geopolitics think tank (The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies), and at the Dutch Embassy in Lebanon. Currently trying to effect a career switch towards global catastrophic risk governance, and in that capacity I am engaged with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute. Considering PhD. | Existential risk reduction (Nuclear deterrence stability; effective governance for facilitating (fail)safe AI & nanotech transitions). More broadly interested in policy prioritization, rationality and moral philosophy | Global Catastrophic Risk Institute; located in Leiden (The Netherlands) | PhD Advisors; people to discuss career options; coaching in mathematics / programming. | Broad background knowledge on a range of fields; | exposure to Global Catastrophic Risk Institute | Matthijs.M.Maas@gmail.com | @matthijsMmaas | nl.linkedin.com/in/matthijsmaas/ | https://edinburgh.academia.edu/MatthijsMaas | https://www.facebook.com/matthijs.maas | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | Tzu-Ya (Alicia) Huang | Finished my MSc in Globalisation and Development at SOAS. Built a Chinese EA website and a blog. Been translating EA materials into Mandarin. Leaning about EA in all respects and hopefully to be a Chinese-movement builder. | Research: Development, poverty alleviation, specifically on food security and supermarket commidity chains/ Interests: AI, Xrisks, morality. | Doing an internship at Giving What We Can in Oxford | Chinese-speaking EAs to work on movement-building with. | My development background, contextual knowledge of the Chinese-speaking world and my experience in alternative relationships(polyamory) by applying contrarian thinking. | aliciahuangty@gmail.com | www.eachinese.org | https://www.facebook.com/aliciahuang531 | Email and Facebook are both fine. | |||||||||||||||||
25 | Giovanni Colavizza | Computer scientist and historian by training, currently pursuing a PhD in Scientometrics with strong focus on ML and Networks. Active start-upper, interested in and actively developing software to help the discovery and exploitation of digital knowledge. | Research: Scientometrics, ML, Networks, NLP, Information systems, History (of the book and information, demographics and epidemics, economics). Interests: evolutionary biology, game theory, economics, statistics, philosophy of science. | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland | Help understanding the movement and how to help, interesting people to bootstrap common projects, talented developers and deep conversations. | Hard-working and experienced developer and researcher, knowledge of history, willingness to collaborate on worthy endeavours. | giovannicolavizza@gmail.com | https://www.facebook.com/giovanni.colavizza | email, FB | ||||||||||||||||||
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