Leadership Team (2025-2026)

  • Emma Beharry

    CO-PRESIDENT

    Emma is a co-president of SAIA and a senior/coterm studying computer science with a concentration in AI. She has worked on AI safety and governance research, and is passionate about about developing ethical and aligned computer systems. Her hobbies include nature photography, paddle-boarding, and listening to music.

  • Andrew Zeng

    CO-PRESIDENT

    Andrew is a co-president of SAIA and senior at Stanford. He is currently doing AI policy research with a focus on international coordination and governing high-risk AI systems. In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball, freewriting, watching old films, and biking across campus.

  • Ella Pfeffer

    EXECUTIVE LEADER

    Ella María is a Project Lead at SAIA and a junior double majoring in Symbolic Systems and Economics. She is interested in the intersection between ethics, AI, and finance. She grew up between London, England and José Ignacio, Uruguay. In her free time, she loves to read philosophy and people watch at cafés.

  • Patrick Ye

    EXECUTIVE LEADER

    Patrick is a CS major at Stanford affiliated to Stanford AI Lab, with research focus on Cognitive AI and ML Theory. He has been SAIA’s leadership organizer since freshman year, and has founded SAIA’s human-centered program the Humanities in AI Alignment.

  • Jay Gupta

    PROJECT LEADER

  • Greg Kalman

    PROJECT LEADER

  • Aditesh Kumar

    PROJECT LEADER

  • Luiza Riberio

    PROJECT LEADER

  • Maanya Singh

    PROJECT LEADER

  • Maanit Goel

    PROJECT LEADER