Paul Riechers

Paul Riechers is a researcher and scientific leader with deep expertise in the physics of information and the fundamental limits of learning and prediction.  He co-founded Simplex, an AI safety research organization, with Dr. Adam Shai, applying insights from theoretical physics and neuroscience to build foundational understanding of internal representations and emergent behavior in neural networks.  Paul earned a PhD in theoretical physics and an MS in electrical and computer engineering from UC Davis. Prior to founding Simplex, he spent five years as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is also co-founder of the Beyond Institute for Theoretical Science (BITS), a former Senior Fellow at UCLA’s Mathematics of Intelligences program at IPAM, and has served as both a MATS scholar and mentor. Paul has co-organized multiple workshops on AI interpretability and alignment, and now co-leads the growing Simplex team with support from the Astera Institute.