Research Program
Singularity Institute Visiting Fellows Program
We are currently accepting applications for new Visiting Fellows. If you are interested, please send your resume and a summary of your interests to Louie Helm at louie.helm@singinst.org.
Current Visiting Fellows
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Marcello Herreshoff
Marcello Herreshoff is a mathematics student at Stanford University. He was a participant in the Singularity Institute's Summer of AI program in 2006, and he continues to work with SIAI Research Fellow Eliezer Yudkowsky on problems of mathematics, artificial intelligence, computer science and decision theory. He was twice a national finalist in the USA Computing Olympiad, and he has won Honorable Mention in the 2008 Putnam Mathematics Competition.
Email: marcello.herreshoff(at)singinst(dot)org
Past Visiting Fellows
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JĂĄnos KramĂĄr
JĂĄnos KramĂĄr is a Ph.D. student in statistics at Harvard University. JĂĄnos holds an Hon.B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto. He was the winner of gold medals in the Canadian Mathematics Olympiad in 2003 and the Canadian Computing Competition in 2004 and a bronze medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2004, and was in the top 30 in the 2007 and 2008 Putnam Mathematics Competitions.
Email: janos.kramar(at)singinst(dot)org
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Frank Adamek
Frank Adamek is a student at the University of Minnesota majoring in electrical engineering. He has conducted research on artificial neural networks and the use of cellular biology for computing, and is the founder and president of H+ Campus Transhumanists, the transhumanist club at the University of Minnesota.
Email: frank.adamek(at)singinst(dot)org
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Thomas Colthurst
Thomas Colthurst holds an Sc. B. from Brown University and a Ph. D. from MIT, both in mathematics. Thomas has published extensively in the field of large vocabulary, conversational speech recognition; he is also the designer of the board game "Barons", which will be released in late 2010 by Cambridge Game Factory. Thomas currently works as a software engineer at Google. While at the Singularity Institute in August, he worked with Anna Salamon and Ben Hoskin on a paper about the difficulties of learning human concepts from their statistical correlations.
Email: thomaswc(at)gmail(dot)com
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Peter de Blanc
Peter de Blanc is a Ph.D. student in mathematics at Temple University. Peter participated in the Singularity Institute Summer of AI program in 2006, and is the author of the decision theory paper "Convergence of Expected Utility for Universal AI", written in collaboration with the Singularity Institute. He holds an M.A. and B.S. in Mathematics from Temple University, and he also received the Copple Award for Excellence in Mathematics in 2006.
Email: peter(at)spaceandgames(dot)com
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Jasen Murray
Jasen Murray is the founder of the New York Less Wrong meet-up group. He has a B.S. in Biology from Cornell University and spent two years researching gene therapy and personalized medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College's Department of Genetic Medicine.
Email: jasen.murray(at)singinst(dot)org
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Diego Caleiro
Diego Caleiro is a researcher at SĂŁo Paulo University on the topics of memetic and cultural evolution, philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and technological ethics. He won first prize in the International Cognitive Science Meeting of Brazil, and Outstanding Student Contribution from the Methuselah Foundation. He is publishing a book on Daniel Dennett's way of reasoning and ideas. Diego's blog is Brainstormers.
Email: diegocaleiro(at)gmail(dot)com
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Nevin Freeman
Nevin Freeman is CTO of RIABiz, a news website for financial advisors. His prominent interests are information transmission and nanomachinery. He holds a B.S. in transportation engineering from Portland State University.
Email: nevin.freeman(at)gmail(dot)com
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Minda Myers
Minda Myers is a current research fellow investigating cognitive enhancement and EEG neurofeedback. She holds a B.Sc. with a major in Computer Science and Psychology and a minor in business from Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS and has spent more than 2 years employed as a software engineer. Her interests extend into computational neuroscience, startups, learning, design and personal growth and she writes about these topics on her blog, MindaMyers.com.
Email: minda(at)singinst(dot)org
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Will Newsome
Will Newsome is an independent researcher of interventions and methodology for cognitive enhancement. He is in the process of founding a non-profit organization to promote research and awareness of cognitive enhancement and intelligence amplification technologies. He is also developing a webstore for the rationality-themed community blog Less Wrong.
Email: will.newsome(at)singinst(dot)org
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Justin Shovelain
Justin Shovelain is a computer science student at the University of Minnesota. He holds an M.S. in computer science and a B.S. in physics, mathematics and computer science from the University of Minnesota.
Email: justin.shovelain(at)singinst(dot)org
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Keefe Roedersheimer
Keefe Roedersheimer is a software engineer working on a distributed knowledge base scheduled for release this fall. At SIAI, he is working on improvements to the Less Wrong codebase, and studying the relationship between growth in computing power and the hardware requirements of whole brain emulation. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Notre Dame for work on optimizing treatment planning algorithms for radiosurgery and received security clearance to work on the Mission Operations Reconfiguration Systems project at Ames Research Center in 2008.
Email: keefe(at)icatus(dot)com
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Roman Yampolskiy
Roman Yampolskiy is the director of the CyberSecurity Research Lab at the University of Louisville and teaches Artificial Intelligence in the department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science. He holds a PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo. There he was a recipient of a four year NSF fellowship. After completing his PhD studies Dr. Yampolskiy held a position of an Affiliate Academic at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University of London, College of London. He had previously conducted research at the Laboratory for Applied Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology and at the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Yampolskiy is an author of over 50 publications including multiple journal articles and books. His research interests include philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, biometrics, forensics and security of games.
Email: roman.yampolskiy(at)louisville(dot)edu
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Abraham Wolk
Abraham Wolk is a student of theoretical physics at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is currently conducting research in neurophysiology.
Email: abraham.wolk(at)singinst(dot)org
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Michael Blume
Michael Blume is a Ph.D. student in experimental particle physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of California at Irvine.
Email: mike.blume(at)singinst(dot)org
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Louie Helm
Louie Helm is a published researcher in mathematics and quantum computing. He is the founder of the Seventeen or Bust distributed computing project and an Internet entrepreneur who previously held positions in the supercomputing and defense industries. He holds an M.S. in Software Engineering from the University of Texas.
Email: louie.helm(at)singinst(dot)org
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Ben Hoskin
Ben Hoskin is a Mathematics and Philosophy student at the University of Oxford. He holds the Robson Scholarship and was several times a gold certificate winner in the UKMT Challenge. While at the Singularity Institute, he worked with Ann Salamon and Thomas Colthurst on a paper about the difficulties of learning human concepts from their statistical correlations and with Steve Rayhawk on using game theory to formalize some of the psychology that shows up in metaethics.
Email: ben.hoskin(at)singinst(dot)org
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Dennis Fan
Dennis Fan is an Honors Political Science and Mathematics student at Swarthmore College. He is currently a researcher in Educational Psychology and recently presented his work at the American Educational Research Association's 2010 Annual Meeting. He is working towards fluency in Arabic and captains his college rugby team.
Email: dennis.fan(at)singinst(dot)org
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Thomas McCabe
Thomas McCabe is a mathematics student at Yale University and software engineer at Stik.com. He is the IT and website manager for the Singularity Summit, and the author of the articles "The Top 5 Technology Panics of 2009" (published in H+ Magazine and featured on Slashdot) and "Failure and Success in AGI Projects" (published at the 2009 Conference on Artificial General Intelligence). He is also a Research Consultant for KurzweilAI.net and Technical Moderator for the KurzweilAI.net Forums.
Email: tom.mccabe(at)singinst(dot)org
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Carl Shulman
Carl Shulman is a law student at New York University. Previously, he held a position at Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund managed by PayPal founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University.
Email: carl.shulman(at)singinst(dot)org
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Kaj Sotala
Kaj Sotala is a cognitive science student at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of the papers "Evolved altruism, ethical complexity, anthropomorphic trust: three factors misleading estimates of the safety of artificial general intelligence" and "From mostly harmless to civilization-threatening: pathways to dangerous artificial intelligences", presented at the 7th and 8th European Conferences on Computing and Philosophy. He is also author to three books in Finnish, on the subjects of role-playing games, developing technologies, and the problems in the current copyright legislation.
Email: xuenay(at)gmail(dot)com
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Andriy Brodskyy
Andriy Brodskyy is a physics Ph.D. student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He previously held positions involving research on molecular dynamics algorithms at the Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany and the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique in Grenoble, France. He holds a B.S. from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics and an M.S. in Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Email: brondr(at)gmail(dot)com
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Vincent Fagot
Vincent Fagot is the president of the life extension association HEALES. He holds an M.S. in biology from the UniversitĂŠ Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.
Email: fagot.vincent(at)gmail(dot)com
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Katja Grace
Katja Grace is a Visiting Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute. She holds a B.S. in economics from Australian National University.
Email: katjasolveig(at)gmail(dot)com
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Andrew Hay
Andrew Hay is a Ph.D. student in computer science at the University of Auckland. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from the University of Auckland.
Email: andwhay(at)gmail(dot)com
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Henrik Jonsson
Henrik Jonsson is a software developer at Google. He holds a MSc. in computer science from UmeĂĽ University.
Email: henrik.jonsson(at)singinst(dot)org
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Steven Kaas
Steven Kaas is the author of the blog Black Belt Bayesian, and the winner of the 2007 WiseGEEK writing contest. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and physics and an M.S. in econometrics from the University of Amsterdam.
Email: steven.kaas(at)singinst(dot)org
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Nick Tarleton
Nick Tarleton is a computer science and decision science student at Carnegie Mellon University. He has held engineering positions at Facebook and SAS.
Email: nick.tarleton(at)singinst(dot)org