Joel Becker

Researcher, Technical Staff, METR

Joined

January 2025

Names

Joel Becker (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@metr.org (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Technical Staff, METR (metr.org)

2025 – Present

PhD student

Economics, New York University (nyu.edu)

2020 – 2022

Researcher

Economics, Harvard University (harvard.edu)

2018 – 2022

Undergrad student

Economics, University of Bristol (bristol.ac.uk)

2014 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Elizabeth Barnes

2024 – Present

Expertise

2022 – Present

Economics

2014 – 2022

Genomics

2018 – 2020

Publications

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks
Thomas Kwa, Ben West, Joel Becker, Amy Deng, Katharyn Garcia, Max Hasin, Sami Jawhar, Megan Kinniment, Nate Rush, Sydney Von Arx, Ryan Bloom, Thomas Broadley, Haoxing Du, Brian Goodrich, Nikola Jurkovic, Luke Harold Miles, Seraphina Nix, Tao Roa Lin, Neev Parikh, David Rein et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
RE-Bench: Evaluating Frontier AI R&D Capabilities of Language Model Agents against Human Experts
Hjalmar Wijk, Tao Roa Lin, Joel Becker, Sami Jawhar, Neev Parikh, Thomas Broadley, Lawrence Chan, Michael Chen, Joshua M Clymer, Jai Dhyani, Elena Ericheva, Katharyn Garcia, Brian Goodrich, Nikola Jurkovic, Megan Kinniment, Aron Lajko, Seraphina Nix, Lucas Jun Koba Sato, William Saunders, Maksym Taran et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- ICML 2025 spotlightposter
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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