The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

2009 Visiting Fellows

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

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

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

Vincent Fagot

Vincent Fagot is the president of the life extension association HEALES. He holds an M.S. in biology from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

Email: fagot.vincent(at)gmail(dot)com

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

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

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 United States of America Computing Olympiad, and he has won Honorable Mention in the 2008 Putnam Mathematics Competition.

Email: marcello.herreshoff@singinst.org

Henrik Jonsson

Henrik Jonsson is a software developer at Slide, a world-leading entertainment company in products available at social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. He holds a MSc. in computer science from Umeå University.

Email: henrik.jonsson(at)singinst(dot)org

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

Thomas McCabe

Thomas McCabe is a mathematics student at Yale University. 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 "Failure and Success in AGI Projects" (published at the 2009 Annual Conference on Artificial General Intelligence).

Email: tom.mccabe(at)singinst(dot)org

Roko Mijic

Roko Mijic is a computer science and Artificial Intelligence student at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

Email: roko.mijic(at)singinst(dot)org

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

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

Nick Tarleton

Nick Tarleton is a computer science student at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, he held a programming position at the software development firm SAS.

Email: nickptar(at)gmail(dot)com