Joe Edelman co-founded the Meaning Alignment Institute and leads research on how AI and institutions can support human values. His earlier work includes founding the School for Social Design, independent research backed by Stripe and Patrick Collison, humane technology research, Citizen Logistics and CouchSurfing's reputation systems.
Co-lead and Principal Investigator
Founder
Researcher
Research funded by Patrick Collison and Stripe on values, human choice, recommender systems and healthier technology.
Co-founder
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Led real-time coordination products including Groundcrew, a coordination programming language, fundraising and a small engineering team.
Event and Game Designer
Reputation Systems and Metrics
Operations Team Member
Coordinated volunteers and relief operations after Hurricane Katrina.
Distributed Systems Engineer
Built and deployed Internet-wide monitoring systems.
Researcher
Built informatics systems for documenting and searching research at the fMRI Data Center, part of the NIH/NSF Human Brain Project.
Software Mentor
Trained monks at Namgyal Monastery to maintain and extend software used by the Tibetan administration in exile.
Senior Developer
Developed an online marketplace for aircraft parts.
A.B., Computer Science and Modeling
