--- title: "Jakub Pachocki — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-pachocki/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-pachocki/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jakub Pachocki # Jakub Pachocki Jakub Pachocki has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Aleksander Madry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksander-madry/), [Alexander Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/), [Bowen Baker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-baker/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5011053473) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5011053473) · [51 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011053473) · [3,700 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011053473&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-pachocki/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4,171 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-pachocki/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7407](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/75/#star-7407) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Jakub+Pachocki) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jakub+Pachocki) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jakub+Pachocki) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jakub+Pachocki) ## Affiliations [🏢**OpenAI** San Francisco · United States 2014–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2014–2017 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2016–2017 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**University of Warsaw** Warsaw · Poland 2012 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-warsaw/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-pachocki/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Competitive Programming with Large Reasoning Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-kishky-2025-competitive-programming-large-reasoning-models/)** *(2025 · 68 citations)* This OpenAI report asks whether LLM performance in competitive programming improves more from hand-built, task-specific inference pipelines or from scaling general reinforcement learning. 2. **[Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baker-2025-monitoring-reasoning-models-misbehavior-risks/)** *(2025 · 63 citations)* The paper asks whether the reasoning traces of RL-trained language models can expose reward hacking, where an agent exploits flaws in its objective instead of solving the task. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Competitive Programming with Large Reasoning Models arXiv:2502.06807**OpenAI: Ahmed El-Kishky, Alexander Wei, Andre Saraiva, et al.*2025 · 68 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-kishky-2025-competitive-programming-large-reasoning-models/) 2. [**Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation arXiv:2503.11926**Bowen Baker, Joost Huizinga, Leo Gao, et al.*2025 · 63 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baker-2025-monitoring-reasoning-models-misbehavior-risks/) 3. **[Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Tomek Korbak et al.*2025 · 35 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aleksander Madry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksander-madry/) - [Alexander Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/) - [Bowen Baker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-baker/) - [Daniel Selsam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-selsam/) - [David Dohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dohan/) - [Francis Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francis-song/) - [Hunter Lightman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunter-lightman/) - [Jerry Tworek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jerry-tworek/) - [Leo Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leo-gao/) - [Lorenz Kuhn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lorenz-kuhn/) - [Melody Y. Guan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melody-y-guan/) - [Wojciech Zaremba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wojciech-zaremba/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4,171 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1,070 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-pachocki/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026