Rishi Bommasani is a senior research scholar at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. He researches the societal and economic impact of AI. His research has received several recognitions at ML conferences and has been covered by the New York Times, Nature, Science, the Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. His research shapes public policy: he is the lead author of the California Report on Frontier AI Policy that led to the first US laws on frontier AI, an independent expert chair of the EU AI Act Code of Practice that clarifies the first comprehensive worldwide laws on frontier AI, and an author of the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI. Rishi completed his PhD in computer science at Stanford University, where he was advised by Percy Liang and Dan Jurafsky and funded by the Stanford Lieberman fellowship and the NSF Graduate Research fellowship. Prior to that, Rishi completed his bachelors and masters in mathematics and computer science at Cornell University, where he was advised by Claire Cardie.