Hello!

I'm a researcher at OpenAI, where I co-lead the Post-training Frontiers team with the amazing Eric Mitchell. Our team focuses on training and deploying models that are maximally useful for productive and professional use cases (e.g., o1, o3, GPT-5 Thinking, etc.).

Previously, I was a PhD student in machine learning at Stanford University, co-advised by Percy Liang and Tatsu Hashimoto, and funded by a Knights-Hennessy Scholarship. Before that I traveled around and did some research at the Vector Institute, completed my AI Residency at Facebook AI, and worked in different startups including Grab where I was designing algorithms to analyze text in under-research languages (Thai, Khmer, Burmese, …) before LLMs were a thing.

Outside of machine learning I spend my time exercising with friends (,,,,), traveling, or reading about geopolitics.

Note: please do not contact me about quant jobs; I'm not interested regardless of compensation. <!– News ======

• May 2021: Incredibly honored to have been selected as a Knights-Hennessy Scholar.
• April 2021: I will be starting my PhD at Stanford University in September 2021.
• September 2020: Just finished my Facebook AI residency. Next up: internship at Vector Institute for one year.

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