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10 OpenAI research scientists
These ten current OpenAI research scientists hold research scientist or Member of Technical Staff roles at the company, and their profiles describe research work there. A reader can learn what research scientist work at OpenAI involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Allan Zhou
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · OpenAI
Research Scientist at OpenAI since October 2025; his role description reads Multimodal post-training for GPT thinking models. He was a Research Engineer at Google DeepMind from 2024 to 2025 and a Graduate Student Researcher at Stanford University from 2019 to 2024.
Charlie Nash
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · OpenAI
Research Scientist at OpenAI since October 2024, based in London and listed in the Research department. He was a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind from 2019 to 2023 and Co-Founder of Udio from 2023 to 2024, and held research internships at Google DeepMind and Microsoft in 2017.
Chris J. J. Lu
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · OpenAI
Research Scientist at OpenAI since October 2024, listed in the Research department. He was a PhD student at the University of Oxford (2021–2024) and a Research Scientist at Covariant (2019–2021), and held Research Scientist Intern roles at Sakana AI (2024) and Google DeepMind (2022).
Gabriel Goh
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · OpenAI
Research Scientist at OpenAI since January 2019; his role description lists interpretability, GPT-4 and DALL-E. He was a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple from 2017 to 2019, after graduate study at the University of California, Davis (2014–2017) and The University of British Columbia (2011–2014).
Hongyu Ren
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · OpenAI
Research Scientist at OpenAI since July 2023, listed in the Research department, with the headline Research Scientist @ OpenAI. The profile also lists research internships at Apple in 2021 and at Google in 2020, and a Student Researcher role at Google from 2020 to 2021.
Hussein Hazimeh
LinkedInExperience: Staff Research Scientist · OpenAI
Staff Research Scientist at OpenAI since October 2024, listed in the Research department, with the headline Research Scientist at OpenAI. At Google he was a Senior Research Scientist (2023–2024) and a Research Scientist (2021–2023), after research internships at Google in 2019 and 2020.
Ingmar Kanitscheider
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · OpenAI
Research Scientist at OpenAI since August 2018; his role description mentions tuning hyperparameters for large language models and optimization of GPT-4. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in computational neuroscience and deep learning at The University of Texas at Austin (2014–2018), and a postdoctoral fellow in computational neuroscience at the University of Geneva and the University of Rochester.
Jonathan Gordon
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · OpenAI
Research Scientist at OpenAI since December 2020, listed in the company's Research department, with the headline Research Scientist at OpenAI. He was a PhD student in machine learning at the University of Cambridge from 2017 to 2021 and held research internships at Facebook (2019) and Microsoft (2018).
Joost Huizinga
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · OpenAI
Research Scientist at OpenAI since July 2020; his role description says he is a research scientist on the science of deep learning team at OpenAI. He was a Research Scientist at Uber from 2018 to 2020 and a Ph. D. Student at the University of Wyoming from 2013 to 2018.
Noam Brown
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI since June 2023; his profile headline describes him as a research scientist at OpenAI focused on reasoning and says he co-created the LLM reasoning model o1. He was a Research Scientist at Meta from 2018 to 2023, and the headline also credits him with co-creating the poker AIs Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy AI CICERO.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's research area to your question, since reasoning, post-training, interpretability and the science of deep learning call for different methods and timelines. Consider whether they came from academia or from another industry lab, and how long they have been at OpenAI, because both shape how they compare research there with other settings.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which research ideas are worth scaling up at an AI lab?
- 02How does research at a frontier lab differ from research in academia or at a big tech company?
- 03What would you advise a PhD student who wants to move into a research scientist role at an AI lab?
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