Team

Andreas Stuhlmüller Cofounder & CEO

Before starting Ought, Andreas was a postdoctoral researcher in Noah Goodman's Computational Cognitive Science lab at Stanford. He co-created WebPPL, a programming language for probabilistic machine learning. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from MIT, where he worked in Josh Tenenbaum's group.

Jungwon Byun Cofounder & COO

Prior to Ought, Jungwon was the Head of Growth at Upstart, where she helped the company scale 5x in revenue and originations. Before Upstart, Jungwon was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman and the Executive Director / CEO of Elmseed Enterprise Fund. She graduated cum laude from Yale, and holds a B.A. in economics.

James Brady Head of Engineering

James leads our engineering team. He joined Ought from Spring, where he was VP of Technology leading the development of their creator commerce platform. Before Spring, James founded startups in the developer tools space, then brought a team to Square to build their Payroll product.

Ben Rachbach Evaluation Program Manager

Ben was a software engineer at Wonder Workshop prior to joining Ought. Before that, he was a research analyst at GiveWell. He received a B.A. in Chinese and education studies from Swarthmore College.

Justin Reppert Machine Learning Engineer

Justin is a machine learning engineer who previously worked on evaluations of international development projects. He holds a PhD from Fordham University, where he specialized in the philosophy of mathematics.

Luke Stebbing Software Engineer

Luke is a software engineer who previously worked at the University of Utah’s Center for High Performance Computing, Xapio, FireID, and Google. He holds a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Utah.

Jason Zukewich Software Engineer

Prior to joining Ought Jason worked as a software engineer building developer tooling at Apollo GraphQL. He studied computer science at Waterloo, interning at Airbnb, Asana, Dropbox, Coursera, and TextNow.

Charlie George Machine Learning Engineering Intern

Charlie is our machine learning intern for the summer of 2022. He has worked on various AI projects in the past year relating to climate modelling, real-estate marketplaces, and digital art. He is currently studying mathematics at the University of Warwick.

Maggie Appleton Product Designer

Maggie is our product and UX designer. Prior to Ought she was Head of Design at HASH working on knowledge management tooling. Before that she spent five years as a designer at egghead.io focused on developer education. She's an advocate of tools for thought, digital gardening, and end-user programming. She holds a B.A. in cultural anthropology from Whitman College, with a specific focus on digital anthropology.

Alex Hall Software Engineer

Alex is a full stack engineer specializing in Python. Previously he worked for BusinessOptics in Cape Town and GristLabs in New York building tools to improve management and analysis of data. He works on several open source projects in his spare time, mostly related to learning, understanding, and debugging code better. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Cape Town.

Ian Horn Machine Learning Engineer

Ian is a machine learning engineer. He previously worked at Stitch Fix, Swift Navigation, Study.com, Joby Energy, and the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. He holds a B.S. in physics from UC Santa Cruz.

Adrian "Panda" Smith Infrastructure Engineer

Panda is an infrastructure engineer with a focus on developer experience. Prior to joining Ought he worked at Stripe to keep the financial infrastructure of the internet running, as well as building their early-stage language model tooling. Before Stripe, Panda worked with Keysight Technologies designing the infrastructure and software necessary to operate a global high-tech hardware supply chain.

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Collaborators

Paul Christiano Advisor

Paul currently runs the Alignment Research Center and previously led the language model alignment team at OpenAI. As well as being a board member at Ought, Paul is also a research associate at FHI and a technical advisor for the Open Philanthropy Project. He holds a Ph.D. from the theory of computing group at UC Berkeley.

Owain Evans Advisor

Owain was a postdoc at the University of Oxford where he worked on AI Safety and Reinforcement Learning at the Future of Humanity Institute. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT, where he worked on cognitive science, probabilistic programming, and philosophy of science.

Board of directors

• Andreas Stuhlmüller
• Paul Christiano
• Owain Evans