Compute Lead, RAND Technology and Security Policy Center; Associate Information Scientist; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
Lennart Heim is an associate information scientist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He leads the compute research in the Technology and Security Policy Center within RAND Global and Emerging Risks. His research focuses on the role of compute for advanced AI systems and how compute can be leveraged as an instrument for AI governance, with an emphasis on policy development and security implications. Heim's publications cover the impacts and governance of advanced AI systems and empirical trends in machine learning, such as compute, data, and AI hardware.
He is also an adjunct fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), a member of the OECD.AI Expert Group on AI Compute and Climate, a pro forecaster at INFER Pub, and an advisor to Epoch, an organization investigating the trajectory of AI. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Centre for the Governance of AI and as a machine learning researcher at ETH Zürich. He has a background in computer engineering and studied at ETH Zürich and RWTH Aachen University.
M. Sc. in computer engineering, RWTH Aachen/ETH Zürich; B. Sc. in computer engineering, RWTH Aachen
