People

Chris Given

Deputy Secretary, Technology and Innovation, California Government Operations Agency

California Government Operations Agency

Deputy Secretary for Technology and Innovation at GovOps; leads CalCompute consortium on behalf of the state

Gov. Gavin Newsom

40th Governor of California

Office of the Governor, State of California

Signed SB-53 into law

Monique Limón

Senate President pro Tempore, California State Senate

California State Senate

Senate President pro Tempore and Chair of the Senate Rules Committee; presides over the chamber that passed SB 53, the legislation establishing the CalCompute consortium

Nick Maduros

Secretary, California Government Operations Agency

CA GovOps

Leads state AI strategy

Robert Rivas

Speaker, California State Assembly

California State Assembly

Speaker of the California State Assembly

Sen. Scott Wiener

State Senator, 11th District

California State Senate

Authored SB-1047 and SB-53

Allison Kim

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Irvine

UCI Coalition Rep.

Anson Fung

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Davis

UCD Coalition Rep.

Daniel Romo

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Riverside

UCR Coalition Rep.

Dawn Song

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

UC Berkeley

Senior Advisor, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Deeksha Vaidyanathan

Computer Science & Data Science Student

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Berkeley

AI Policy & Safety Researcher

Ellie Kuang

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Santa Barbara

UCSB Coalition Rep.

Inioluwa Deborah Raji

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

UC Berkeley

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Dean Jennifer Tour Chayes

Dean, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

UC Berkeley

Co-author of framework underlying SB-53; key UC institutional figure

Joseph E. Gonzalez

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

UC Berkeley

Senior Advisor, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Kevin Michael Esterling

Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Chair, Department of Political Science

UC Riverside

Computational democracy UC; founding director, TeCD-Lab

Leilani H. Gilpin

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz

AI Safety Researcher & Developer

Meredith M. Lee

Researcher

UC Berkeley

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Pranav Anand

Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz

Linguist and NLP UC

Stephanie Lieggi

Executive Director, CROSS & OSPO, UC Santa Cruz

Jack Baskin School of Engineering

UC Santa Cruz

Open source infrastructure leader; technology governance and reproducibility UC

Yan Zhu

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Berkeley

AI Governance and policy expert

Zac Zimmer

Associate Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz

Humanistic researcher on AI training data, equitable AI infrastructure, and responsible AI curriculum development

Kat Phan

California Research and Policy Manager, Economic Security Project

Economic Security Project

Leads California policy research on economic security, public AI infrastructure, and antimonopoly advocacy — including co-sponsorship of SB 53, the legislation establishing CalCompute

Natalie Foster

Co-Founder and Board Member

Economic Security Project

Coalition partner; author of foundational CalCompute commentary

Ruby Guillen

Co-Chair, UNA-USA Human Rights Affinity Group; Governing Councilor, APHA-HIIT; Technology & Data Science Analyst, CA Critical Incidents Citizen Review Panel

United Nations Association of the USA | American Public Health Association | Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (ICAN)

Child welfare technologist; United Nations civil society leader; ethical AI and public-interest technology advocate

Teri Olle

Vice President, Economic Security California

Economic Security Project

Co-Sponsor of SB-53; leading public advocate for CalCompute

A. Feder Cooper

Researcher

Stanford University

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Alexander Wan

Researcher

Stanford University

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Angelina Wang

Researcher

Stanford University

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Anka Reuel

Researcher

Stanford University

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Daniel E. Ho

William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law; Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI

Stanford University

Senior Advisor, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Dawn Song

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

UC Berkeley

Senior Advisor, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Drew Spence

Researcher

Stanford University

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Elena Cryst

Executive Director, Stanford Existential Risks Initiative

Stanford University

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Dr. Fei-Fei Li

Sequoia Professor of Computer Science; Co-Director, Stanford HAI

Stanford University

Co-author of framework underlying SB-53; AI working group member

Ian Klaus

Senior Fellow

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Inioluwa Deborah Raji

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

UC Berkeley

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Dean Jennifer Tour Chayes

Dean, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

UC Berkeley

Co-author of framework underlying SB-53; key UC institutional figure

Jonathan Zittrain

George Bemis Professor of International Law; Professor of Computer Science

Harvard University

Senior Advisor, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Joseph E. Gonzalez

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

UC Berkeley

Senior Advisor, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Lindsey A. Gailmard

Researcher

Stanford University

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Meredith M. Lee

Researcher

UC Berkeley

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Percy Liang

Associate Professor of Computer Science; Director, Stanford CRFM

Stanford University

Senior Advisor, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Rishi Bommasani

Society Lead, Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models

Stanford University

Lead Writer, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Ruth E. Appel

Researcher

Stanford University

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Sarah Cen

Researcher

Stanford University

Writing Group Member, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Scott R. Singer

Senior Fellow

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Lead Writer, California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

President

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Led Newsom's AI working group; co-author of framework underlying SB-53