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2EmployeeNameTitleFormerStartLeftContactNotesGithubEducationPapers
31Sam AltmanCo-Founder, CEOex-YC12/1/2015Present
42Greg BrockmanCo-Founder, President, Infrastructure leadEx-CTO Stripe12/1/2015Present
53Andrej KarpathyCo-Founderex-Tesla12/1/2015Present
64Elon MuskCo-Founderex-Tesla12/1/20152018N/A
75John SchulmanCo-Founder, Head of RLPhD under Pieter Abbeel12/1/2015Presentjoschu@openai.comQuantifying Generalization in RL (2019)https://github.com/joschu
86Ilya SutskeverCo-Founder OpenAI, Chief Scientist12/1/2015Presentilyasu@openai.com
97Wojciech ZarembaCo-Founder; Founded DNNResearch; Managed dataset team for GPT-412/1/2015Presentwoj@openai.comLeadership
108Pam LewisAI Platform Product Managerex-Bossa Nova12/1/2015PresentMale. Started as demand analyst
119Vicki CheungFormer Head of Infrastructure & Founding Engineerex-Duolingo12/1/201512/1/2017N/AImproved Techniques for Training GANs (6/10/16)CMU (BS)
1210Ian GoodfellowGodex-Google, back to Google again, then Apple, back to DeepMind3/1/20163/1/2017N/A
1311Jonas SchneiderCo-founded Robotics teamex-Stripe4/1/20168/1/2019Rubik's Cube (10/16/19), Hindsight Experience Replay (7/10/2017)
1412Tim SalimansTeam Leadex-Algoritmica, Aidence; went to Google.5/1/20167/1/2018tim@openai.comImproved Techniques for Training GANs (6/10/16)Rotterdam (PhD Econometrics)
1513Prafulla DhariwalResearch Scientist5/1/2016Presentprafulla@openai.comStarted as intern.Diffusion Models Beat GANs (6/1/21), Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020), OpenAI Baselines (5/24/2017)
1614Christopher "Chris" BernerHead of Compute; Supercomputing Leadex-Facebook3/1/2017PresentLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
1715Szymon SidorOptimization vice lead for GPT-45/24/2017Presentszymon.sidor@gmail.comhttps://github.com/siemankoUC Berkeley (B)OpenAI Baselines (5/24/17)
1816Vicki PfauGym RetroNow at Valve?6/1/20179/1/2021vi@endrift.com@endrift, endrift.comhttps://github.com/endriftGotta Learn Fast (4/23/18)
1917Oleg KlimovCodeDSSL, ISS, now at Small Megallanic Cloud AI (refact.ai)6/1/20176/1/2021omgtech@gmail.comhttps://github.com/olegklimovQuantifying Generalization in RL (2019), Gotta Learn Fast (4/23/18)
2018Bob McGrewHead of Research, was VP Research7/10/2017Presentleadership? Codex (at least 7/14/21), Rubik's Cube (10/16/19), Hindsight Experience Replay (7/10/2017)
2119Marcin Andrychowicz7/10/20172019?marcin@openai.comHindsight Experience Replay (7/10/2017), Rubik's Cube (10/16/2019)
2220Filip Wolski7/10/2017?Hindsight Experience Replay (7/10/2017)
2321Alex RayCodex20172021?Hindsight Experience Replay (7/10/2017), Codex (7/14/21)
2422Josh Tobin2017?Hindsight Experience Replay (7/10/2017)
2523Pieter Abbeel2017?Hindsight Experience Replay (7/10/2017)
2624Rachel Fong2017?Hindsight Experience Replay (7/10/2017)
2725Alec RadfordVery little GH activityex-Indico (1/7/16 paper), used gmail for 6/10/16 openai paper7/19/2017Presentalec@openai.com ; alec.radford@gmail.com@alecrad,https://github.com/NewmuCodex (at least 7/14/21), Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020), OpenAI Baselines (1/25/18), Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms (7/19/17)
2826Peter WelinderVP Product & Partnerships2017?Codex (at least 7/14/21), Rubik's Cube (10/16/19), Hindsight Experience Replay
2927Matthias PlappertCodexex-PSPDFKit, left to go to Github, and now with Factorial Funds7/27/201712/1/2021N/AKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (B, M)Codex (at least 7/14/21), Baselines (7/27/17 commit), Rubik's Cube (10/16/19)
3028David FarhiResearcher, Manager of GPT-4 pretraining optimization teamex-Google1/1/2018PresentPhysicistHarvard PhD in Physics, MIT B
3129Chris HesseInfrastructure usability co-lead1/25/2018Presenthttps://github.com/christopherhesseCodex (at least 7/14/21), Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020), OpenAI Baselines (1/25/18)
3230Glenn Powellex-Stuntbot2/1/20189/1/2022Rubik's Cube (10/16/19)
3331Alex NicholCo-creator of DALLE-2. Codex, Shap-E, Guided DiffusionFirst job at OpenAI. College dropout. 3/24/19 said he was not currently affiliated with OpenAI. 8/6/21 says he is.3/8/2018Presentalex@openai.com ; unixpickle@gmail.comwww.aqnichol.comhttps://github.com/unixpickleGotta Learn Fast (4/23/18), Reptile, Guided Diffusion (6/1/21)
3432Henrique Ponde de Oliveira Pintoex-Dropbox4/1/2018PresentCodex (at least 7/14/21)MIT (BS)
3533Michael PetrovHardware correctness lead for GPT-4ex-Dropbox5/1/2018Presenthttps://twitter.com/mpetrov?lang=en ; http://michaelpetrov.com/U WaterlooCodex (at least 7/14/21)
3634Karl CobbeResearch Scientist6/1/2018Presentkarl@openai.comQuantifying Generalization in RL (2019)
3735Mira MuratiCTO, former SVP Research, VP Applied AIex-Leap Motion6/1/2018Present
3836Brad LightcapCOO, CFOEx-YC8/1/2018Present"leadership" according to Sam
3937Raphael Ribasex-WhatsApp, Google9/1/20183/1/2019Rubik's Cube (10/16/19)
4038Lei Zhangex-Nanoleaf10/1/20183/1/2020Rubik's Cube (10/16/19), https://twitter.com/l32zhang?lang=enhttps://leiz86.github.io/
4139Qiming YuanDataset sourcing and processing lead for GPT-4; Codexex-Dropbox12/1/2018Presentqiming@openai.comCodex (at least 7/14/21), Rubik's Cube (10/16/19)
4240Tasha McCauleyBOD2018Present
4341Jerry TworekResearch, Code Capabilityex-Quant, Decura, JPMorgan3/1/2019Presentjt@openai.comCodex (at least 7/14/21), Rubik's Cube (10/16/19)U Warsaw (BSc, MS)
4442Alex PainoArchitecture & data vice lead for GPT-4. Was on Robotics team.ex-Sift3/1/2019PresentCodex (at least 7/14/21), Rubik's Cube (10/16/19)U Missouri (BS)
4543Nikolas TezakScale lead. Execution lead for GPT-4ex-Rigetti3/1/2019PresentCodex (at least 7/14/21), Rubik's Cube (10/16/19)Stanford (PhD, Physics)
4644Peter HoescheleStrategic Financeex-Deloitte5/1/2019Present
4745Nick RyderArchitecture & data lead for GPT-4ex-AWS7/1/2019PresentCodex (at least 7/14/21), Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)UC Berkeley (Math PhD), Rice
4846Arvind NeelakantanResearch Lead & Managerex-Google2/1/2020PresentLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
4947Amin TootoonchianModel distribution, systems, networking lead for GPT-4ex-Intel5/1/2020PresentU Toronto (PhD CS)
5048Adrien EcoffetResearch Scientistex-Uber5/1/2020Present
5149Shantanu JainInfrastructure usability co-leadex-Quora6/1/2020PresentCodex (at least 7/14/21)
5250Aditya RameshYung King7/1/2020Present_@adityaramesh.comLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020), Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation (2/26/21), DALL-E and Sora inventor
5351Mohammad BavarianCompute cluster scaling for GPT-4, capability prediction co-leadex-Rubrik9/1/2020Presenthttps://twitter.com/mobav0?lang=en ; https://bavarian.dev/MIT (PhD), UBC (BS)Codex (at least 7/14/21)
5452Philippe "Phil" TilletTriton lead for GPT-4ex-Nvidia10/1/2020PresentCodex (at least 7/14/21)Harvard (PhD, CS)
5553Jonathan GordonCompute cluster scaling for GPT-4ex-Facebook, Microsoft internships12/1/2020PresentleadershipU Cambridge (PhD), Israel BS
5654Zack KassHead of GTMex-Lilt2021Present
5755Toki SherbakovHead of Solutions & Account Engineeringex-Palantir2021Present
5856Che ChangGeneral Counsel; Compute cluster scaling for GPT-4, Legalex-AWS, Goodwin2021Present"leadership" according to Sam
5957Shawn JainCode capability, open-endednessex-Microsoft, Uber1/1/2021PresentMIT (MS, Meng)
6058Mikhail PavlovSoftware correctness lead for GPT-4ex-Google2/1/2021Presenthttps://twitter.com/MikhailPavlov5https://github.com/fgvbrtZero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation (2/26/21), Codex (at least 7/14/21)
6159Tabarak KhanPartnerships3/1/2021Present
6260Kyle KosicUptime and stability lead, Trainingex-OnScale, now Co-Founder xAI4/1/20215/1/2023GIT (MS), Alabama (BS)
6361Jason KwonChief Strategy Officer, GCGC YC Continuity4/1/2021Present"leadership" according to Sam
6462Boris PowerTechnical Staff4/1/2021Present
6563Oleg BoikoCompute cluster scaling for GPT-4ex-Chegg5/1/2021PresentBS in Russia
6664Joanne JangProductex-Google12/1/2021Present
6765Juston ForteApplied AI, GTMex-Lilt12/1/2021Present
6866Aravind Srinivas20212022
6966Trevor CaiThroughput lead, Vision leadex-Deepmind3/1/2022PresentChinchilla, Gopher
7067Sheila DunningCompute cluster scaling for GPT-4, Legalex-Esurance3/1/2022Present
7168Aliisa RosenthalHead of Sales6/1/2022Present
7269Andrew CannCompute cluster scaling for GPT-4ex-Atomwise6/1/2022PresentUmass (BS), GIT (MS)
7370Shyamal Hitesh AnadkatApplied AIex-Neo, ex-a16z8/1/2022Presentshyamal.anadkat@duke.eduhttps://shyamal.me/https://github.com/shyamal-anadkatDuke
7471Barret ZophSafetyex-Google9/1/2022Present
7572Atty EletiSWEex-Stripe11/1/2022Present
7673Tarun GogineniTechnical Staffex-Facebook11/1/2022PresentSomeone famous?
7774Bryan BanisabaChief of Staffex-Stripe, Facebook, Google, Airbnb1/1/2023Presenthttps://bryanbanisaba.com/
7875James DyettHead of Strategic Accountsex-Stripe2/1/2023Present
7976Benjamin ZweigProduct & Interface Designex-Facebook2/1/2023Present
8077Chris FinlaysonGTMex-Stripe3/1/2023PresentHarvard (MBA)
8178Srinivas NarayananVP Engineeringex-Facebook4/1/2023Presentleadership
8279Joseph LandersGTMex-Stripe4/1/2023PresentNYU (MBA)
8380Chris BrownGTMex-Stripe5/1/2023PresentDuke (BA)
8481Caitlin CarrollTalentex-Stripe6/1/2023Present
8582Leo GaoCompute cluster scaling for GPT-4ex-Googlehttps://bmk.sh/ ; https://twitter.com/nabla_theta?lang=enhttps://github.com/leogao2
86Jakub PachockiPrincipal of Research, ran optimization for GPT-4 pretraining, EvalsSuper important
87Preston TuggleApplied AI Solutions
88Jan LeikeAlignment team leadleadership, Codex (at least 7/14/21)
89Ted Sanders
90Ari Allyn-Feuer
91Akila WelihindaSupercomputing
92Jeb Henry HeadProduct Policy
93Scott GrayTechnical StaffCodex (at least 7/14/21), Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
94Chris KochResearch Engineer
95Sarthak AgrawalAI Safety
96Steven AdlerAI Safety
97Lilian WengHead of Safety Systemsleadership Rubik's Cube (10/16/19)
98Bianca MartinTechnical Chief of Staff
99Rajeev NayakSoftware Engineer
100Pamela MishkinResearch, Safety, Economic impact, EvalsCodex (at least 7/14/21)
101Ishant SinghTrust & Safety
102Denny JinStrategic Finance Lead
103Brydon EastmanTechnical Staff
104Adam PerelmanEngineering
105Sowmya RanganathanController
106Jan Hendrik KirchnerResearch Engineer
107Robert InfantinoTalentleadership?
108Carl RossTechnical Staff
109Matt WiethoffTechnical Staff, Code Capabilityleadership?
110Colin S.Technical Staff
111Maddie SimensProduct Design Lead
112Jason WeiTechnical Staff
113Logan KilpatrickDev Rel, Evals
114Diane YoonVP Peopleleadership according to sam
115Alexis ConneauTechnical Staff
116Rohan NuttallApplied
117Evan MorikawaOpenAI Applied Engineering ManagerCodex (at least 7/14/21)
118Michelle KimRecruiting
119Kristen DallaraRecruiting
120Yoshi WangRecruiting
121Irving WashingtonSWE
122Joshua GrossTechnical Staff, Infrastructure
123Andrew BuskerRecruiting
124Jesse HanResearch Scientist
125Bowen BakerResearch Scientist
126Behrooz GhorbaniResearcher
127Dave WillnerFormer Head of Trust and Safety7/1/2023
128Will DePue
129Anna TifftGTMleadership according to sam
130Natalie Staudacher
131David Lees
132Voj Voyej
133Angela JiangEvals
134Roger JiangRLHF, Training
135Jessica Shieh
136Heewoo JunCodex, Shape-EAt least 5/3/23hee-woo@openai.com
137Lukasz KaiserLong context co-leadCodex (at least 7/14/21)
138Nitish Shirish Keskar
139Jong Wook Kim
140Aris Konstantinidis
141Chak Ming LiCode capability
142Todor MarkovSafety
143David Mely
144Oleg MurkCode capability
145Hyeonwoo Noh
146Long OuyangRLHF
147Vitchyr PongCode capability
148Daniel Selsam
149Ian Sohl
150Chelsea VossEval execution lead
151Ariel Herbert-VossCodex (at least 7/14/21), Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
152Clemens WinterLong context co-leadCodex (at least 7/14/21), Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
153Tao Xu
154Eric SiglerLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
155Henri Roussez
156Emy Parparita
157Mateusz LitwinLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020), Rubik's Cube (10/16/2019)
158Christian Gibson
159Ben ChessLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
160Sandhini AgarwalSystem card co-leadLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
161Suchir BalajiCodex (at least 7/14/21)
162Taehoon KimQuantifying Generalization in RL (2019)
163Yongjik Kim
164Madeleine Thompson
165Igor BabuschkinCodex (at least 7/14/21)
166Ingmar Kanitscheider
167Daniel Levy
168Jie TangCodex (at least 7/14/21)
169Ben WangAttention architecture lead
170Gabriel GohLong context co-leadZero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation (2/26/21)
171Xi Chenpeter@openai.comImproved Techniques for Training GANs (6/10/16)
172Mark ChenVision team co-lead, Codexmark@openai.comCodex (at least 7/14/21), Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
173Casey Chu
174Shengli Hu
175Jamie Kiros
176Christine McLeavey
177Raul PuriCodex (at least 7/14/21)
178Rory Carmichael
179Yunxing Dai
180Brandon Houghton
181Lukasz Kondraciuk
182Tianhao Zheng
183Alethea PowerCodex (at least 7/14/21)
184Reiichiro Nakano
185Pranav ShyamLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
186Ilge AkkayaCode capabilityRubik's Cube (10/16/2019)
187Maciek ChociejRubik's Cube (10/16/2019)
188Rachel Lim
189Jiayi WengTraining
190Arka Dhar
191Liam FedusTraining
192Rapha Gontijo-LopesSafety
193Johannes HeideckeSafety, Training
194Joost HuizingaSafety, RLHF
195Teddy LeeSafety, Code Capability
196Ryan LoweAlignment co-lead
197Luke MetzSafety, Trainingex-Indico (with Radford)
198Carroll WainwrightSafety
199Jonathan Ward
200Sarah YooCode capability
201Chong ZhangSafety
202Shengjia ZhaoTraining
203Diogo AlmeidaRLHF
204Juan Felipe Ceron UribeSafety
205Tyna EloundouSafety, safety evaluations co-lead
206Christina Kim
207Stephanie LinSafety
208Jacob Menick
209Tong MuSafety
210Ashvin NairTraining, Code Capability
211Alex Passos
212Michael Pokorny
213Athrur PetronRubik's Cube (10/16/19)
214Shibani SanturkarSafety
215Sarah Shoker
216Jeffrey "Jeff" WuLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
217Yuhuai Wu1/25/2018OpenAI Baselines
218Kai XiaoSafety, safety evaluations co-lead
219Kevin YuCode capability
220Marvin ZhangSafety, Evals
221William ZhukCode capability
222Irwan BelloInfrastructure
223Lenny BogdonoffInfrastructure
224Haozhun JinCode capabilityCodex (at least 7/14/21)
225David Medina
226Andrey Mishchenko
227Josh AchiamSafetyCodex (at least 7/14/21)
228Hyung Won ChungSafety
229Shixiang Shane GuSafety, Evals
230Andrea ValloneSafety
231Dan MossingRLHF
232Katarina SlamaRLHF
233Benjamin SokolowskyCapability prediction
234Lama AhmadExpert red teaming & adversarial lead
235Andrew KondrichEvals
236Bogo GiertlerTechnical StaffReddit, Elis, Dropbox, Spotify2022PresentColumbia, Colby
237Gretchen KruegerSystem card co-leadCodex (at least 7/14/21), Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
238Michael LampePrivacy
239Jack RaeResearch benchmark execution
240Alvin WangOpenAI Evals
241Alan HickeyAcceleration forecasting
242Daniel Kokotajlo
243Katie MayerCodex (at least 7/14/21)
244Miles Brundageleadership, Codex (at least 7/14/21)
245Ruby ChenCommunications
246Jake BerdineLegal
247Ashley PantulianoAssociate GC
248Jonathan LachmanSpecial Projects
249Morgan GrafsteinSysadmin
250Francis RealSysadmin
251Mario SaltarelliSysadmin
252Bob RotstedSecurityleadership?
253Joel ParishSecurity
254Vinnie MonacoSecurity
255Jake McNeilSecurity
256Matt KnightSecurityCodex (at least 7/14/21)leadership?
257Shino JomotoSecurity
258Wade HickeySecurity
259Lauren WorkmanFinance
260Brooke ChanFinanceCodex (at least 7/14/21)
261Kyla SheppardFinance
262Theresa Lopez
263Yuri BurdaCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21)
264Harri EdwardsCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21)
265Girish SastryCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21), Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
266Juan Petroski SuchCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21)
267Vedant MisraCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21)
268Dave CummingsCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21)
269Fotios ChantzisCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21)
270Elizabeth BarnesCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21)
271William Hebgen GussCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21)
272William SaundersCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21)
273Andrew N. CarrCodexCodex (at least 7/14/21)
274Tom B. BrownLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
275Benjamin MannLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
276Melanie SubbiahLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
277Amanda AskellLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
278Tom HenighanLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
279Rewon ChildLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
280Daniel M. ZieglerLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
281Jack ClarkLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
282Hannahleadership according to Sam
283Jared KaplanLeft for AnthropicAnthropic AI, Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
284Nicholas JosephLeft for AnthropicAnthropic AI
285Sam McCandlishLeft for AnthropicAnthropic AI, Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (7/22/2020)
286Dario ArmodeiLeft for AnthropicAnthropic AI
287Heidy KhlaafLeft for Zipline
288Patleadership
289Aleksander
290Olivier MoindrotFragment5/24/2017OpenAI Baselines (5/24/17), made early commithttps://github.com/omoindrot