Information for Redwood Research

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Basic information

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Country United States
Website https://www.redwoodresearch.org/
Team page https://www.redwoodresearch.org/
Launch date 2021-10-05
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org 2023-11-13

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
2019 1 Nathaniel Thomas
2020 4 Seraphina Nix Buck Shlegeris, Nathaniel Thomas, Royston Noronha
2021 21 Seraphina Nix Adam Scherlis, Aqeel Ali, Ben Weinstein-Raun, Bill Zito, Buck Shlegeris, Daniel Ziegler, James Bregan, Nathaniel Thomas, Noa Nabeshima, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Ryan Greenblatt, Tao Lin Holden Karnofsky, Paul Christiano Ajeya Cotra, Blake Borgeson, Claire Zabel, Malo Bourgon, Owen Cotton-Barratt
2022 23 Seraphina Nix Adam Scherlis, Aqeel Ali, Bill Zito, Buck Shlegeris, Cienna Rominger, Daniel Ziegler, Guilhermo Cutrim Costa, James Bregan, Luke Sallmen, Nathaniel Thomas, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Ryan Greenblatt, Tao Lin, Tyler Storlie Holden Karnofsky, Paul Christiano Ajeya Cotra, Blake Borgeson, Claire Zabel, Malo Bourgon, Owen Cotton-Barratt
2023 15 Adam Scherlis, Ajeya Cotra, Bill Zito, Buck Shlegeris, Cienna Rominger, Daniel Ziegler, Guilhermo Cutrim Costa, Nathaniel Thomas, Paul Christiano, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Ryan Greenblatt, Tao Lin Holden Karnofsky, Paul Christiano
2024 11 Ajeya Cotra, Buck Shlegeris, Cienna Rominger, Daniel Ziegler, Guilhermo Cutrim Costa, Nathaniel Thomas, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Ryan Greenblatt, Tao Lin Holden Karnofsky

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 2 Buck Shlegeris, Nathaniel Thomas
2021-01-01 7 Adam Scherlis, Bill Zito, Buck Shlegeris, James Bregan, Nathaniel Thomas, Royston Noronha, Seraphina Nix
2022-01-01 13 Adam Scherlis, Aqeel Ali, Bill Zito, Buck Shlegeris, Cienna Rominger, Daniel Ziegler, James Bregan, Nathaniel Thomas, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Ryan Greenblatt, Seraphina Nix, Tao Lin
2023-01-01 10 Adam Scherlis, Bill Zito, Buck Shlegeris, Cienna Rominger, Daniel Ziegler, Nathaniel Thomas, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Ryan Greenblatt, Tao Lin
2024-01-01 9 Ajeya Cotra, Buck Shlegeris, Cienna Rominger, Daniel Ziegler, Nathaniel Thomas, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Ryan Greenblatt, Tao Lin

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
2019-09-01 1 1 0 Nathaniel Thomas
2020-01-01 2 1 0 Buck Shlegeris
2020-03-01 3 1 0 Royston Noronha
2020-11-01 4 1 0 Seraphina Nix
2021-01-01 14 10 0 Adam Scherlis, Ajeya Cotra, Bill Zito, Blake Borgeson, Claire Zabel, Holden Karnofsky, James Bregan, Malo Bourgon, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Paul Christiano
2021-06-01 15 1 0 Ben Weinstein-Raun
2021-08-01 17 2 0 Aqeel Ali, Daniel Ziegler
2021-09-01 19 2 0 Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Tao Lin
2021-10-01 18 0 -1 Ben Weinstein-Raun
2021-11-21 18 1 -1 Noa Nabeshima Noa Nabeshima
2021-12-01 19 1 0 Ryan Greenblatt
2022-01-01 20 1 0 Cienna Rominger
2022-03-01 22 2 0 Luke Sallmen, Tyler Storlie
2022-05-03 19 0 -3 James Bregan, Luke Sallmen, Tyler Storlie
2022-06-01 20 1 0 Guilhermo Cutrim Costa
2022-08-01 18 0 -2 Aqeel Ali, Seraphina Nix
2022-09-22 13 0 -5 Ajeya Cotra, Blake Borgeson, Claire Zabel, Malo Bourgon, Owen Cotton-Barratt
2023-01-22 11 0 -2 Adam Scherlis, Paul Christiano
2023-03-31 12 1 0 Paul Christiano
2023-08-30 11 0 -1 Paul Christiano
2023-09-12 12 1 0 Ajeya Cotra
2023-10-04 11 0 -1 Bill Zito

List of people (27 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Adam Scherlis Staff 2021-01-01 2023-01-22 [1], [2]
Ajeya Cotra Advisor 2021-01-01 2022-09-22 advisor [1], [3]
Ajeya Cotra Director 2023-09-12 board member [4], [5]
Aqeel Ali Operations Manager 2021-08-01 2022-08-01 full-time [6], [7]
Ben Weinstein-Raun Member Of Technical Staff 2021-06-01 2021-10-01 full-time [1], [8]
Bill Zito Chief Operating Officer 2021-01-01 2023-10-04 [9], [1], [10]
Blake Borgeson Advisor 2021-01-01 2022-09-22 advisor [1], [3]
Buck Shlegeris Chief Technology Officer 2020-01-01 full-time [5], [11]
Cienna Rominger Operations Generalist 2022-01-01 full-time [12]
Claire Zabel Advisor 2021-01-01 2022-09-22 advisor [13], [3]
Daniel Ziegler Member Of Technical Staff 2021-08-01 full-time [1], [14]
Guilhermo Cutrim Costa Machine Learning Intern 2022-06-01 full-time [15]
James Bregan Staff 2021-01-01 2022-05-03 [13], [7]
Holden Karnofsky Board Member 2021-01-01 board member [1], [5]
Luke Sallmen Staff 2022-03-01 2022-05-03 [16], [7]
Malo Bourgon Advisor 2021-01-01 2022-09-22 advisor [1], [3]
Nathaniel Thomas Founder & Chief Executive Officer 2019-09-01 [17], [5], [18]
Noa Nabeshima Staff 2021-11-21 2021-11-21 [13]
Owen Cotton-Barratt Advisor 2021-01-01 2022-09-22 advisor [13], [3]
Paul Christiano Board Member 2021-01-01 2023-01-22 board member [1], [2]
Paul Christiano Director 2023-03-31 2023-08-30 board member [19], [20]
Peter Schmidt-Nielsen Member of Technical Staff 2021-09-01 full-time [21]
Royston Noronha Business Development Manager 2020-03-01 full-time [22]
Ryan Greenblatt Member of Technical Staff 2021-12-01 full-time [23]
Seraphina Nix Research Engineer 2020-11-01 2022-08-01 full-time [1], [24]
Tao Lin Member Of Technical Staff 2021-09-01 full-time [25], [26]
Tyler Storlie Staff 2022-03-01 2022-05-03 [16], [7]

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