Lennart Heim

Lennart Heim is an independent researcher focused on semiconductors and AI policy, based in Washington, DC. He previously served as an Associate Information Scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he led the Compute Team at RAND's Center on AI, Security, and Technology and held a faculty position as Professor of Policy Analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He is an Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), where he previously held a Senior Research Fellow role leading the Compute Governance initiative. He is also a co-founder of Epoch AI, a research organization tracking trends in machine learning compute, data, and hardware. His research centers on the role of computing power in advanced AI systems and how compute can be leveraged as an instrument for AI governance, including work on training compute thresholds, export controls, data center policy, and AI diffusion frameworks. He has a background in computer engineering from ETH Zurich and RWTH Aachen, is a member of the OECD.AI Expert Group on AI Compute and Climate, and is an active contributor to EA Forum discussions on compute governance and AI safety.

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