Information for University of Chicago Existential Risk Laboratory

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Basic information

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Other names XLab
Country United States
Website https://xrisk.uchicago.edu
Team page https://xrisk.uchicago.edu/about/
Launch date 2022-01-01
Hosting organization University of Chicago
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org 2024-09-25

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
2022 13 Andrew Yang, Freddie Yang, Grant Harris, Henry Josephson, Jack Wippell, Nicole Mateo, Sandro Del Rivo, Soren Dunn, Sudhamshu Hosamane, Theo Ko Isabella Duan, Zachary Rudolph Patrick Jagoda
2023 20 Allison Huang, Anisha Hisham, Carter Teplica, Coleman Snell, Duc Nguyen, Josephine Dodge, Joshua Payne, Julian Baldwin, Laura Messner, Miles Wang, Mishaal Lakhani, Oksana Vickers, Shuyuan Wang, Stephan Llerena, Vincent Li, Yuxin Ji Daniel Holz, Zachary Rudolph Oksana Vickers Patrick Jagoda
2024 24 Isabella Duan, James Rosenberger Daniel Holz, Daphne de Beistegui, Madeline Berzak, Zachary Rudolph Oksana Vickers David Keith, David Weisbach, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Fred Ciesla, James Evans, James Theodore Robinson, Jonathan Lear, Joseph Masco, Luigi Zingales, Luis Bettencourt, Michael Greenstone, Patrick Jagoda, Rebecca Willett, Robert Rosner, Shannon Dawdy, Victor Veitch

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
2022-01-01 11 Andrew Yang, Freddie Yang, Grant Harris, Henry Josephson, Isabella Duan, Jack Wippell, Nicole Mateo, Sandro Del Rivo, Soren Dunn, Sudhamshu Hosamane, Theo Ko
2023-01-01 2 Daniel Holz, Zachary Rudolph
2024-01-01 2 Daniel Holz, Zachary Rudolph

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
2022-01-01 12 12 0 Andrew Yang, Freddie Yang, Grant Harris, Henry Josephson, Isabella Duan, Jack Wippell, Nicole Mateo, Patrick Jagoda, Sandro Del Rivo, Soren Dunn, Sudhamshu Hosamane, Theo Ko
2022-02-01 13 1 0 Zachary Rudolph
2022-09-01 12 0 -1 Isabella Duan
2022-12-01 2 0 -10 Andrew Yang, Freddie Yang, Grant Harris, Henry Josephson, Jack Wippell, Nicole Mateo, Sandro Del Rivo, Soren Dunn, Sudhamshu Hosamane, Theo Ko
2023-01-01 3 1 0 Daniel Holz
2023-06-12 19 16 0 Allison Huang, Anisha Hisham, Carter Teplica, Coleman Snell, Duc Nguyen, Josephine Dodge, Joshua Payne, Julian Baldwin, Laura Messner, Miles Wang, Mishaal Lakhani, Oksana Vickers, Shuyuan Wang, Stephan Llerena, Vincent Li, Yuxin Ji
2023-08-18 3 0 -16 Allison Huang, Anisha Hisham, Carter Teplica, Coleman Snell, Duc Nguyen, Josephine Dodge, Joshua Payne, Julian Baldwin, Laura Messner, Miles Wang, Mishaal Lakhani, Oksana Vickers, Shuyuan Wang, Stephan Llerena, Vincent Li, Yuxin Ji
2023-09-01 4 1 0 Oksana Vickers
2024-01-01 20 16 0 David Keith, David Weisbach, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Fred Ciesla, James Evans, James Theodore Robinson, Jonathan Lear, Joseph Masco, Luigi Zingales, Luis Bettencourt, Michael Greenstone, Rebecca Willett, Robert Rosner, Shannon Dawdy, Victor Veitch
2024-02-01 21 1 0 Isabella Duan
2024-05-22 22 1 0 Daphne de Beistegui
2024-06-01 23 1 0 James Rosenberger
2024-07-01 24 1 0 Madeline Berzak
2024-08-17 23 0 -1 Daphne de Beistegui

List of people (51 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Daniel Holz Director 2023-01-01 [1], [2], [3]
Zachary Rudolph Deputy Director 2022-02-01 full-time [1], [4], [3]
Oksana Vickers Student Associate 2023-09-01 full-time [1], [5], [3]
Isabella Duan Student Researcher and Team Lead 2024-02-01 [1], [3]
Madeline Berzak Nuclear Program Lead 2024-07-01 full-time [3], [6]
Luis Bettencourt Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Dipesh Chakrabarty Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Fred Ciesla Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Shannon Dawdy Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
James Evans Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Michael Greenstone Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Patrick Jagoda Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2022-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
David Keith Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Jonathan Lear Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Joseph Masco Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
James Theodore Robinson Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Robert Rosner Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Victor Veitch Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
David Weisbach Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Rebecca Willett Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
Luigi Zingales Faculty Advisory Comitee Member 2024-01-01 advisor [1], [3]
James Rosenberger Summer Research Fellow 2024-06-01 intern [7]
Daphne de Beistegui Project Coordinator 2024-05-22 2024-08-17 [8], [9]
Isabella Duan Co-Founder 2022-01-01 2022-09-01 [10]
Sandro Del Rivo Summer Research Fellow 2022-01-01 2022-12-01 intern [11]
Soren Dunn Summer Research Fellow 2022-01-01 2022-12-01 intern [11]
Grant Harris Summer Research Fellow 2022-01-01 2022-12-01 intern [11]
Sudhamshu Hosamane Summer Research Fellow 2022-01-01 2022-12-01 intern [11]
Henry Josephson Summer Research Fellow 2022-01-01 2022-12-01 intern [11]
Theo Ko Summer Research Fellow 2022-01-01 2022-12-01 intern [11]
Nicole Mateo Summer Research Fellow 2022-01-01 2022-12-01 intern [11]
Jack Wippell Summer Research Fellow 2022-01-01 2022-12-01 intern [11]
Andrew Yang Summer Research Fellow 2022-01-01 2022-12-01 intern [11]
Freddie Yang Summer Research Fellow 2022-01-01 2022-12-01 intern [11]
Allison Huang Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Anisha Hisham Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Carter Teplica Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Coleman Snell Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Duc Nguyen Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Josephine Dodge Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Joshua Payne Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Julian Baldwin Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Laura Messner Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Miles Wang Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Mishaal Lakhani Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Oksana Vickers Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Shuyuan Wang Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Stephan Llerena Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Vincent Li Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]
Yuxin Ji Summer Research Fellow 2023-06-12 2023-08-18 intern [12]

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