All people

Researcher · Founder · Executive

Elizabeth Barnes

Elizabeth Barnes portrait

Founder and CEO at METR

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.

See something inaccurate or outdated?

Background

Current role
Founder and CEO
About this data

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 9, 2026

Citation Trend

2 snapshots
Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '2614,58311,4868,388Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
14,583citations as of Jun 15, '26+6,195 since Aug 25, '25
For today’s citation count and citations per paper, visit Google Scholar.

You may also be interested in