Why async-first
The work the lab does — replication audits, peer review, adversarial stress-testing — does not survive synchronous meetings. A reviewer in a different time zone needs to be able to pick up an artefact, run it, comment, and pass it on without waiting for a stand-up. The chain of custody makes that possible: every artefact is a content-addressed atomic unit of work.
24-hour triage, anywhere.
A submission, a replication, or a vulnerability disclosure receives a human reviewer within 24 hours. The reviewer is drawn from the working group whose time zone is currently on shift — there is always one.
Partner directory
The lab partners across academia, industry, and government. The directory below is the publicly listed subset; a longer roster is available under a non-disclosure for active proposals.
Texas Tech University
Hub institution. CS department, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, and the cryptography research group.
arXiv
Replication index integration — pre-prints from the lab carry a passing replication record at upload.
NeurIPS Foundation
Reproducibility track participation; reviewer rotation for the agentic-systems area.
Nature Methods Editorial
Methodology piece collaborator and reprint partner.
NSF Open Science Office
Reference implementation for federally funded ML artefact submission.
Kaggle Research Datasets
Cross-publication of replication-tracked datasets and adversary catalogues.
Working groups
A working group is the smallest unit of triage — a rotation of reviewers covering one research surface, with at least three members in three different time zones so 24-hour SLA is structurally feasible.
| Working group | Members | Time zones | Cadence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic systems & RL | 8 | UTC-8 / -5 / +1 | rotation/2wk |
| Computational biology | 6 | UTC-6 / 0 / +5 | rotation/2wk |
| Cryptographic verification | 5 | UTC-6 / 0 / +9 | rotation/3wk |
| Adversarial robustness | 7 | UTC-8 / -5 / +5 | rotation/wk |
| Reproducibility audit | 6 | UTC-6 / +0 / +9 | rolling intake |
How to join the network
Researchers join the lab’s network through one of three doors:
- Replication contributor — pick a claim from the public tracker and submit a replication run. The tracker handles the rest.
- Working group reviewer — apply via the working group's intake. Reviewers serve a 6-month rotation.
- External collaborator — submit a proposal through /lab/collaborate/. Three slots per semester.