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Wojciech Zaremba

Wojciech Zaremba
Born (1988-11-30) 30 November 1988 (age 36)
Kluczbork, Poland
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw (M.S., 2013)
New York University (Ph.D., 2016)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsOpenAI
ThesisLearning algorithms from data (2016)
Doctoral advisor

Wojciech Zaremba (born 30 November 1988) is a Polish computer scientist and founding team member of OpenAI (2016–present). He initially led OpenAI's work on robotics, notably creating a robotic arm capable of solving Rubik's Cube. When the team was dissolved in 2020, he began leading teams working on OpenAI's GPT models, GitHub Copilot, and Codex.[1]

Early life and education

Zaremba was born in Kluczbork, Poland. At a young age, he won local competitions and awards in mathematics, computer science, chemistry and physics.[2] In 2007, Zaremba represented Poland in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Vietnam, and won a silver medal.[3]

Zaremba studied at the University of Warsaw and École Polytechnique mathematics and computer science, and graduated in 2013 with two master's degrees in mathematics. He then began his PhD at New York University (NYU) in deep learning under the supervision of Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.[4] Zaremba graduated and received his PhD in 2016.[5][6]

Career

During his bachelor studies, he spent time at NVIDIA before the deep learning era. His PhD was divided between Google Brain where he spent a year, and Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research where he spent another year.[1][7]

During his stay at Google, he co-authored work on adversarial examples for neural networks.[8] This result created the field of adversarial attacks on neural networks.[9]

His PhD is focused on matching capabilities of neural networks with the algorithmic power of programmable computers.[10][11][12][13]

In 2015, Zaremba became one of the co-founders of OpenAI,[14] an artificial intelligence research company whose stated mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence "benefits all of humanity".[15] In OpenAl, Zaremba has worked as robotics research manager until 2020, then managing the development of GitHub Copilot, and Codex, and GPT models underlying ChatGPT.[1]

Zaremba sits on the advisory board of Growbots,[16] a Silicon Valley startup company aiming to automate sales processes with the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is also on the advisory board of the Qualia Research Institute.[17]

Honors and awards

References

  1. ^ a b c "Only 4 of OpenAI's 11 Founders Are Still With the Company—Where Are the Rest of Them?". Observer. 12 July 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  2. ^ "Polish mathematician among the best in the world". Polish newspaper "wyborcza.pl" (in Polish). Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Results from International Mathematical Olympiad". IMO official website. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Personal website of Prof. Fergus". cs.nyu.edu. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Wojciech Zaremba's PhD dissertation" (PDF). New York University PhD Theses Archive. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Reddit discussion on Wojciech Zaremba's PhD dissertation". Machine Learning channel at Reddit. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Wojciech Zaremba". LinkedIn. Archived from the original on 12 January 2025. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  8. ^ Szegedy, Christian; Zaremba, Wojciech; Sutskever, Ilya; Bruna, Joan; Erhan, Dumitru; Goodfellow, Ian; Fergus, Rob (2013). "Intriguing properties of neural networks". arXiv:1312.6199 [cs.CV].
  9. ^ "Deep Learning Adversarial Examples – Clarifying Misconceptions".
  10. ^ "Augmenting neural networks with external memory using reinforcement learning". US Patents.
  11. ^ Zaremba, Wojciech; Sutskever, Ilya (2014). "Learning to Execute". arXiv:1410.4615 [cs.NE].
  12. ^ Zaremba, Wojciech; Sutskever, Ilya (2015). "Reinforcement Learning Neural Turing Machines". arXiv:1505.00521 [cs.LG].
  13. ^ "Learning simple algorithms from examples". Retrieved 26 August 2016 – via YouTube.
  14. ^ "Introducing OpenAI". OpenAI. 13 March 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  15. ^ "OpenAI Charter". OpenAI. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  16. ^ "Growbots' profile page". AngelList. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  17. ^ Magee, Tamlin (24 March 2023). "Silicon Valley's Latest Fascination is Exploring 'DMT Hyperspace'". VICE. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  18. ^ "30 the most influential Polish before 30's". Polish edition of magazine "Forbes" 2017.
  19. ^ "Announcing the 2015 North American Google PhD Fellows". Research at Google. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
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