Lennart Heim

Lennart Heim

Lennart Heim is a researcher at RAND in Washington, DC, at the Technology and Security Policy Center. 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. Lennart’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 has provided policy and technical advice to several governmental agencies and leading tech companies, including the US and UK Government. 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 InferPub, and an advisor to Epoch, an organization investigating the trajectory of AI. Previously, he worked as a consultant for OECD.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.  

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