Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy is president of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), which he co-founded in June 2024 with Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Gross. His doctoral research at Stanford, completed in 2022 under John Duchi, covered machine learning, optimization, and privacy. Before co-founding SSI, he led the optimization team at OpenAI. In 2021 he co-authored Learning with User-Level Privacy, a NeurIPS paper. He became SSI's president in July 2025, and in July 2026 he wrote about Nvidia's investment in the company.
Timeline
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2012–2015
Studies at Ecole Polytechnique
He finishes undergraduate studies at Ecole Polytechnique, where he earns a B.S. and an M.S. in 2014 and 2015.
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2016–2017
Internships at Facebook and Google Brain
In 2016 he interns in applied machine learning at Facebook, and in 2017 he works with Jascha Sohl-Dickstein and Matt Hoffman at Google Brain.
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2021
A NeurIPS paper on user-level privacy
He co-authors Learning with User-Level Privacy, a NeurIPS paper from 2021.
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By 2022
A Stanford PhD with John Duchi
He completes a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford in 2022, advised by John Duchi, with research in machine learning, optimization, and privacy.
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By 2024
From OpenAI to Safe Superintelligence
He leads the optimization team at OpenAI before he co-founds Safe Superintelligence with Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Gross in June 2024.
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July 2025
Named president of Safe Superintelligence
In July 2025 he is named president of Safe Superintelligence, according to Ilya Sutskever.
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Since 2025
President of Safe Superintelligence
He is SSI's president, and as Nvidia invests in the company in July 2026, he writes that the computer just got bigger.
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