Team update

We’vehired⁠more great people to help us achieve ourgoals⁠. Welcome,everyone!

Full-time

Full-time

* Dario Amodei.Dario⁠(opens in a new window)was one of the lead authors ofDeep Speech 2⁠(opens in a new window), a speech system which achieved near-human performance on many speech tasks. He is also a main co-author of “Concrete Problems in AI Safety⁠(opens in a new window)”, which highlights issues related to accidents in machine learning systems. Prior to OpenAI, he worked at Google Brain.

* Filip Wolski.Filip’s⁠(opens in a new window)recent background is in “practical” modeling, having spent the last few years working in the high-frequency trading space. In the past he enjoyed problem-solving in programming competitions, and won theIOI⁠(opens in a new window)andACM ICPC⁠(opens in a new window).

* Jack Clark.Jack⁠(opens in a new window)has spent the past few years writing about artificial intelligence and distributed systems, most recently at Bloomberg and BusinessWeek. His articles have covered technologies likememory networks⁠(opens in a new window),image generation⁠(opens in a new window), andreinforcement learning for robots⁠(opens in a new window), and issues likediversity within AI⁠(opens in a new window). As our Strategy and Communications Director, he will help with community outreach, policy, communications, and strategy.

* Scott Gray.Scott⁠(opens in a new window)was previously an engineer atNervana Systems⁠(opens in a new window)where he focused on optimizing the performance of deep networks on GPUs. Hisassembly-level optimizations⁠(opens in a new window)for dense linear algebra and convolution remain the fastest available. When notwriting software⁠(opens in a new window)he’s usually spending his time reading up on the latest research in neuroscience and related fields.

Interns & visitors

We’re also pumped to be working with the following people for a more limited period of time:

We’re also pumped to be working with the following people for a more limited period of time:

* Catherine Olsson.Catherine⁠(opens in a new window)built OpenAI Gym’sREST API⁠(opens in a new window), which has already attracted users inLua⁠(opens in a new window),C++⁠(opens in a new window),Java⁠(opens in a new window), andRust⁠(opens in a new window). She graduated with a perfect GPA in CS and Brain & Cognitive Science from MIT, and has extensive research experience incomputational neuroscience⁠(opens in a new window)andpsychology⁠(opens in a new window). Catherine has taughtprogramming and applied math⁠(opens in a new window)for six years, including outreach to women and underrepresented minorities.

* Harri Edwards.Harri⁠(opens in a new window)is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, where he is researching models that can quickly adapt to new situations bylearning to represent datasets⁠(opens in a new window).

* Igor Mordatch.Igor⁠(opens in a new window)is interested in optimal control, machine learning, and their applications to robotics, biomechanics, and neuroscience. His PhD was in automated discovery and learning of complex movementbehaviors⁠(opens in a new window). He will join the faculty atCMU⁠(opens in a new window)in September 2017.

* Taco Cohen.Taco⁠(opens in a new window)is a PhD student working on applied and theoretical problems in representation learning. Most recently he invented group equivariant convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs⁠(opens in a new window)), a generalization of CNNs that improves the statistical efficiency of these models by exploiting symmetries.

* Tambet Matiisen.Tambet⁠(opens in a new window)is a PhD student from University of Tartu, Estonia. He previously worked as a software engineer and founded his ownstartup⁠(opens in a new window). His recent projects range frommaking deep reinforcement learning agents cooperate⁠(opens in a new window)to predicting a rat’s location from its brain activity. He also wrote anaccessible introduction to deep Q-learning⁠(opens in a new window).

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