Information for Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute

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Basic information

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Other names QURI
Country United States
Twitter username @QURIResearch
Website https://quantifieduncertainty.org/
Team page https://quantifieduncertainty.org/team/
Launch date 2021-01-01
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org 2025-01-23
Donations List Website (data still preliminary)

Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2018 1 Ben Goldhaber
2019 2 Ozzie Gooen Ben Goldhaber
2020 3 Ozzie Gooen Ben Goldhaber, Jacob Lagerros
2021 6 Nuño Sempere Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Ozzie Gooen Ben Goldhaber, Jacob Lagerros Peter Hurford
2022 5 Nuño Sempere Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Ozzie Gooen, Vyacheslav Matyukhin Ben Goldhaber
2023 5 Nuño Sempere Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Ozzie Gooen, Vyacheslav Matyukhin Ben Goldhaber
2024 14 Eli Lifland, Misha Yagudin, Nuño Sempere Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Nics Olayres, Ozzie Gooen, Quinn Dougherty, Sam Nolan, Slava Matyuhin, Umur Ozkul, Vyacheslav Matyukhin Andrew Critch, Ben Goldhaber Peter Wildeford
2025 8 Eli Lifland, Misha Yagudin, Nuño Sempere Ozzie Gooen, Slava Matyuhin, Vyacheslav Matyukhin Ben Goldhaber Peter Wildeford

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2020-01-01 1 Ozzie Gooen
2021-01-01 1 Ozzie Gooen
2022-01-01 3 Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Nuño Sempere, Ozzie Gooen
2023-01-01 4 Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Nuño Sempere, Ozzie Gooen, Vyacheslav Matyukhin
2024-01-01 4 Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Nuño Sempere, Ozzie Gooen, Vyacheslav Matyukhin
2025-01-01 6 Eli Lifland, Misha Yagudin, Nuño Sempere, Ozzie Gooen, Slava Matyuhin, Vyacheslav Matyukhin

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
2018-07-01 1 1 0 Ben Goldhaber
2019-09-01 2 1 0 Ozzie Gooen
2020-11-01 3 1 0 Jacob Lagerros
2021-02-01 6 3 0 Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Nuño Sempere, Peter Hurford
2021-09-01 4 0 -2 Jacob Lagerros, Peter Hurford
2022-03-01 5 1 0 Vyacheslav Matyukhin
2024-03-01 13 9 -1 Andrew Critch, Eli Lifland, Misha Yagudin, Nics Olayres, Peter Wildeford, Quinn Dougherty, Sam Nolan, Slava Matyuhin, Umur Ozkul Elizabeth Van Nostrand
2024-10-01 12 0 -1 Andrew Critch
2025-01-01 8 0 -4 Nics Olayres, Quinn Dougherty, Sam Nolan, Umur Ozkul

List of people (16 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Ozzie Gooen Executive Director 2019-09-01 full-time [1], [2], [3]
Slava Matyuhin Software Engineer 2024-03-01 full-time [4], [3]
Nuño Sempere Researcher 2021-02-01 contractor [5], [3]
Ben Goldhaber Board Member 2018-07-01 board member [1], [6], [3]
Eli Lifland Research collaborator 2024-03-01 [4], [3]
Peter Wildeford Advisor 2024-03-01 advisor [4], [3]
Misha Yagudin Research collaborator 2024-03-01 [4], [3]
Vyacheslav Matyukhin Software Engineer 2022-03-01 [7]
Sam Nolan Contractor 2024-03-01 2025-01-01 contractor [4], [3]
Quinn Dougherty Contractor 2024-03-01 2025-01-01 contractor [4], [3]
Umur Ozkul Contractor 2024-03-01 2025-01-01 contractor [8]
Nics Olayres Contractor 2024-03-01 2025-01-01 contractor [8]
Elizabeth Van Nostrand Contractor 2021-02-01 2024-03-01 contractor [5], [4], [3]
Jacob Lagerros Board Member 2020-11-01 2021-09-01 board member [1], [9]
Peter Hurford Advisor 2021-02-01 2021-09-01 advisor [5], [9]
Andrew Critch Board Member 2024-03-01 2024-10-01 board member [4], [10]

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