SAN DIEGO, September 03, 2025 — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the appointment of Jeremy (Zico) Kolter to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Dr. Kolter will serve on the Governance Committee.
“We are pleased to welcome Zico to Qualcomm’s Board of Directors,” said Mark McLaughlin, Chair of the Board. “His extensive work in artificial intelligence — from developing the first methods for robust deep learning to advancing safety assessments for large language models — deep technical expertise and industry perspective will be instrumental as we continue to drive the future of intelligent computing.”
Dr. Kolter is Professor and Department Head of the Machine Learning Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a role he has held since July 2024. He joined the CMU faculty in 2012, serving as Assistant Professor from August 2012 to July 2018 and Associate Professor from July 2018 to June 2024. His research focuses on AI safety, robustness and optimization. In industry, Dr. Kolter serves as a member of the Board of Directors at OpenAI, where he chairs the Safety and Security Committee, since August 2024. He is the Co-founder and Chief Technical Advisor of Gray Swan AI, an AI security company, and an advisor to BNY. Dr. Kolter has served as Chief Expert at Robert Bosch and as Chief Data Scientist at C3.ai.
Dr. Kolter holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgetown University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.