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Ajeya CotraMember of Technical Staff · METRResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Elizabeth Barnes
METRFounder and CEO
Barnes founded METR to independently test whether frontier AI systems can carry out long, difficult tasks and accelerate AI research. Its time-horizon measurements have become a widely watched empirical signal of progress in autonomous capabilities.
Career & education
Current role
Founder and CEO
Previously
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations14,583As of Jun 15, '26
citations+6,195Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
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