Adam KALAI

Adam Tauman Kalai is a Research Scientist at OpenAI, specializing in AI Safety and Ethics. His research spans algorithms, fairness, machine learning theory, game theory, and crowdsourcing. Adam earned his BA from Harvard University and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, after which he served as an Assistant Professor at both Georgia Tech and the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He also contributes to Project CETI’s science team, an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to decoding sperm whale communication. In addition, Adam has co-chaired leading conferences such as COLT (Conference on Learning Theory), HCOMP (Conference on Human Computation), and NEML. His work has been recognized with numerous honors, including several best paper awards, an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and most notably the Majulook Prize.