Dan Hendrycks is the executive director of the Center for AI Safety and an advisor to xAI and Scale AI. He received his PhD in AI from UC Berkeley. He has contributed the GELU activation function (the most-used activation in state-of-the-art models including BERT, GPT, Vision Transformers, etc.), benchmarks and methods in robustness, MMLU, and an Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society.
Works
Service
- I co-organized the Workshop on Robustness and Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning at ICML 2019, 2020, 2021; an Adversarial Machine Learning workshop at ICML 2021; and the VISDA domain adaptation competition at NeurIPS 2021.
- I have reviewed for CVPR (2019, 2020), ICLR (2019, 2020), NeurIPS (2017, 2020), ICML (2018, 2019), ICCV (2019), ECCV (2018), Transactions on Affective Computing, AI and Ethics, IJCV, TPAMI, and JMLR.