Roman Yampolskiy
Bio
Roman V. Yampolskiy is a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Louisville's Speed School of Engineering, where he has been a faculty member since 2008. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University at Buffalo (2008), where he was an NSF IGERT fellow, and earned BS/MS degrees (High Honors) in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology. He founded and directs the Cybersecurity Laboratory at the University of Louisville. His research spans behavioral biometrics, digital forensics, and — most prominently — AI safety and the theoretical limits of controllability, explainability, and predictability of advanced AI systems. He is the author of multiple books including "Artificial Superintelligence: a Futuristic Approach" (2015), "Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security" (2018), and "AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable" (2024), and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers. He has served as a Fellow and Research Advisor at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), an AI Safety Fellow at the Foresight Institute, and a Research Associate at the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, and is recognized as a member of the AI Safety Community at the Future of Life Institute.
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