People

Eli Bingham

Co-founder and Director, Basis Research Institute

Eli Bingham is a co-founder and director of Basis, a machine learning fellow in the Data Sciences Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a co-creator and core developer of the Pyro probabilistic programming language, and formerly a senior research scientist at Uber AI Labs. He focuses on research at the intersection of probabilistic machine learning, programming languages, and biology and on bringing that research to practice by delivering high-quality open-source software to many thousands of users.

Affiliations

  • Machine Learning Fellow
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Articles

Basis essays and updates this person wrote or contributed to.

Pact: Trustworthy Coordination for Multi-Agentic Ecosystems

April 23, 2026

Multi-agentic ecosystems are becoming commonplace, but how can we trust them? We propose Pact, a formal coordination language that unifies ideas from game theory, distributed systems and cryptography to enable trustworthy multi-agent coordination.

NeuroAI for AI Safety

November 27, 2024

Basis contributed to a new technical roadmap, “NeuroAI for AI Safety,” from Amaranth Foundation. The roadmap aims to make AI systems safer by understanding and implementing the brain’s approach to intelligent behavior.