Information for Stanford Existential Risks Initiative

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Basic information

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Other names SERI
Country United States
Facebook username Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
YouTube username @stanfordxrisksinitiative
Website https://seri.stanford.edu/
Team page https://seri.stanford.edu/people
Launch date 2020-05-15
Hosting organization Stanford University
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org 2024-05-25

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
2020 1 Amy Dunphy
2021 1 Amy Dunphy
2022 8 Natalia Armenta, Trond Undheim Dan Zimmer, Gabriel Mukobi, Natalia Armenta, Paul N. Edwards, Steve Luby, Victor Warlop Piers de Raveschoot
2023 11 James Chua, Michael Byun, Natalia Armenta, Trond Undheim Dan Zimmer, Gabriel Mukobi, Natalia Armenta, Natalia Armenta, Paul N. Edwards, Steve Luby, Victor Warlop Piers de Raveschoot
2024 9 James Chua, Trond Undheim Dan Zimmer, Doug Rosales, Gabriel Mukobi, Natalia Armenta, Paul N. Edwards, Steve Luby, Victor Warlop Piers de Raveschoot

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
2021-01-01 1 Amy Dunphy
2023-01-01 8 Dan Zimmer, Gabriel Mukobi, Natalia Armenta, Natalia Armenta, Paul N. Edwards, Steve Luby, Trond Undheim, Victor Warlop Piers de Raveschoot
2024-01-01 8 Dan Zimmer, Gabriel Mukobi, James Chua, Natalia Armenta, Paul N. Edwards, Steve Luby, Trond Undheim, Victor Warlop Piers de Raveschoot

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
2020-02-01 1 1 0 Amy Dunphy
2021-07-01 0 0 -1 Amy Dunphy
2022-06-01 1 1 0 Natalia Armenta
2022-07-01 3 2 0 Natalia Armenta, Victor Warlop Piers de Raveschoot
2022-11-09 8 5 0 Dan Zimmer, Gabriel Mukobi, Paul N. Edwards, Steve Luby, Trond Undheim
2023-04-01 9 1 0 Michael Byun
2023-06-01 10 1 0 James Chua
2023-09-01 8 0 -2 Natalia Armenta, Natalia Armenta
2023-10-01 9 1 0 Natalia Armenta
2023-12-01 8 0 -1 Michael Byun
2024-05-26 9 1 0 Doug Rosales

List of people (13 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Amy Dunphy Cofounder/Program Director 2020-02-01 2021-07-01 [1], [2]
Dan Zimmer Member 2022-11-09 [3], [2]
Doug Rosales Member 2024-05-26 [2]
Gabriel Mukobi Student Organizer 2022-11-09 [3], [2]
James Chua Machine Learning Researcher 2023-06-01 full-time [4] Not on website team page
Michael Byun Research Assistant 2023-04-01 2023-12-01 full-time [5], [6] Figures as Student Organizer on the org website
Natalia Armenta Research Assistant 2022-06-01 2023-09-01 full-time [7]
Natalia Armenta Residential Assistant 2022-07-01 2023-09-01 full-time [7]
Natalia Armenta Peer Couch 2023-10-01 part-time [7], [2]
Paul N. Edwards Faculty Co-Director 2022-11-09 [3], [2]
Steve Luby Faculty Co-Director 2022-11-09 [3], [2]
Trond Undheim Research Scholar, SERI 2022-11-09 [3], [2]
Victor Warlop Piers de Raveschoot SERI Program Lead 2022-07-01 full-time [8]

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