Tim Hua Personal Website

Tim Hua's Personal Website

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Email: timhra@nd.comua0@gmail.com
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    My current focus is helping humanity navigate transformative AI, with a focus on technical AI safety research. I am a MATS scholar with Neel Nanda and Sam Marks. I am also a visiting fellow at Constellation and work from Berkeley, CA. Some of my recent work are:

    Before starting MATS, I was doing part time safety research at AI safety camp and MARS. I was also a facilitator at BlueDot's Economics of Transformative AI course. If you're interested in learning more about AI safety in general, I have a blurb here on what I would recommend here

    In a past life, I was an economist on Walmart's Economics Team under John List. I graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Economics in May 2023. My senior thesis, Fox News's Effect on Social and Moral Preferences, won the D.K. Smith Prize in Economics for best thesis (and got cited by Ben Enke)

     I used to run Middlebury's Effective Altruism club. I also enjoy parks, national parks, state parks, biking (but like in a chill way, not cycling), chess, opera, art museums, collecting library cards (I have 30+ I'm trying to build the world's largest collection), and old books. There are lots of cool things on the internet (e.g., economics research), and I've organized some of them in the Interesting Reads tab. I see myself as a broccoli.

    I started this website back in January 2021, and haven't done a great job keeping all of it up to date. Everything on this site is endorsed by at least one of my past iterations, but not necessarily by my most recent one.

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