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# People of OpenAI

60 people (8 core, 52 also published with this affiliation) · first those whose cited work was done most here · [← OpenAI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/)

## Core (8)

1. [**Ilya Sutskever**2016–2022 on 14 papers*13 papers here · 70,805 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ilya-sutskever/)
2. [**Alec Radford**2020–2023 on 9 papers*10 papers here · 38,919 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-radford/)
3. [**Mark Chen**2020–2022 on 5 papers*6 papers here · 27,213 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-chen/)
4. [**Gabriel Goh**2019–2021 on 15 papers*2 papers here · 24,633 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriel-goh/)
5. [**Pamela Mishkin**current · 2021–2025 on 6 papers*2 papers here · 23,765 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pamela-mishkin/)
6. [**Lukasz Kaiser**2021–2022 on 4 papers · employment (Wikidata)*8 papers here · 51,679 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lukasz-kaiser/)
7. [**Lilian Weng**2019–2023 on 6 papers*2 papers here · 16,754 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lilian-weng/)
8. [**Alex Beutel**2023–2025 on 8 papers · employment (Wikidata)*3 papers here · 4,083 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-beutel/)

## Also published with this affiliation (52)

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

9. [**Jong Wook Kim**2021–2022 on 3 papers*4 papers here · 26,561 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jong-wook-kim/)
10. [**Sandhini Agarwal**current · 2021–2026 on 3 papers*5 papers here · 24,776 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandhini-agarwal/)
11. [**Gretchen Krueger**2021 on 3 papers*2 papers here · 25,370 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gretchen-krueger/)
12. [**Girish Sastry**2021–2024 on 4 papers*2 papers here · 24,145 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/girish-sastry/)
13. [**Greg Brockman**2021–2022 on 2 papers*2 papers here · 21,561 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/greg-brockman/)
14. [**Scott Gray**2020–2021 on 3 papers*3 papers here · 19,016 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-gray/)
15. [**Christine McLeavey**2022–2023 on 2 papers*2 papers here · 17,549 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-mcleavey/)
16. [**Jason Wei**current · 2025 on 1 paper*16 papers here · 44,453 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-wei/)
17. [**Amanda Askell**2019–2021 on 3 papers*8 papers here · 15,528 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/)
18. [**Jack Clark**2019–2021 on 3 papers*2 papers here · 12,666 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-clark/)
19. [**Ian Goodfellow**2016–2017 on 4 papers*5 papers here · 32,142 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ian-goodfellow/)
20. [**Barret Zoph**current · 2023–2024 on 2 papers*8 papers here · 36,869 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barret-zoph/)
21. [**Hyung Won Chung**current · 2025 on 1 paper*14 papers here · 24,185 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hyung-won-chung/)
22. [**Amelia Glaese**current · 2025–2026 on 2 papers*4 papers here · 4,606 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amelia-glaese/)
23. [**Eric Wallace**current · 2025 on 1 paper*12 papers here · 11,062 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-wallace/)
24. [**Stanislas Polu**2020–2021 on 2 papers*3 papers here · 793 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stanislas-polu/)
25. [**Jesse Michael Han**2021 on 2 papers*3 papers here · 784 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesse-michael-han/)
26. [**Wojciech Zaremba**2015–2021 on 7 papers*5 papers here · 31,434 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wojciech-zaremba/)
27. [**John Schulman**current · 2016–2025 on 11 papers*7 papers here · 22,008 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-schulman/)
28. [**Heewoo Jun**2020–2022 on 4 papers*5 papers here · 21,753 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heewoo-jun/)
29. [**Adam Lerer**current · 2024 on 1 paper*3 papers here · 21,678 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-lerer/)
30. [**Nitish Shirish Keskar**employment (Wikidata)*5 papers here · 20,310 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nitish-shirish-keskar/)
31. [**Jan Leike**2021–2025 on 2 papers*4 papers here · 19,724 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-leike/)
32. [**Jerry Tworek**current · 2021–2026 on 3 papers*4 papers here · 19,666 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jerry-tworek/)
33. [**Rowan Zellers**2021–2023 on 5 papers*5 papers here · 17,217 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rowan-zellers/)
34. [**Lama Ahmad**current · 2024–2026 on 6 papers*2 papers here · 16,782 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lama-ahmad/)
35. [**Nikolas Tezak**2021–2023 on 2 papers*2 papers here · 16,741 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolas-tezak/)
36. [**Diederik P Kingma**2016 on 2 papers*2 papers here · 16,519 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diederik-p-kingma/)
37. [**Rafal Jozefowicz**2016–2019 on 3 papers*2 papers here · 12,287 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafal-jozefowicz/)
38. [**Christopher Hesse**2018–2021 on 4 papers*3 papers here · 10,177 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-hesse/)
39. [**Jacob Hilton**2019–2020 on 2 papers*5 papers here · 8,104 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-hilton/)
40. [**Milad Nasr**current · 2025–2026 on 2 papers*2 papers here · 7,322 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/milad-nasr/)
41. [**Jason Phang**current · 2026 on 1 paper*7 papers here · 6,984 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-phang/)
42. [**Karl Cobbe**2018–2021 on 5 papers*3 papers here · 6,786 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karl-cobbe/)
43. [**Tim Salimans**2016 on 2 papers*3 papers here · 5,749 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-salimans/)
44. [**Sébastien Bubeck**employment (Wikidata)*3 papers here · 5,190 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastien-bubeck/)
45. [**Eric Mitchell**current · 2025 on 1 paper*3 papers here · 5,001 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-mitchell/)
46. [**Yin Tat Lee**current · 2026 on 1 paper*4 papers here · 4,992 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yin-tat-lee/)
47. [**Prafulla Dhariwal**2021–2022 on 3 papers*3 papers here · 4,914 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prafulla-dhariwal/)
48. [**Patrick Chao**current · 2026 on 1 paper*2 papers here · 4,092 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-chao/)
49. [**Ryan Cotterell**2024 on 2 papers*12 papers here · 3,958 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/)
50. [**Jonathan Ho**2016–2017 on 2 papers*3 papers here · 3,667 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-ho/)
51. [**Igor Mordatch**2017–2020 on 7 papers*2 papers here · 3,663 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/igor-mordatch/)
52. [**Bowen Baker**2019 on 3 papers*3 papers here · 3,443 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-baker/)
53. [**Adam Tauman Kalai**current · 2024–2026 on 2 papers · employment (Wikidata)*2 papers here · 3,302 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-tauman-kalai/)
54. [**Pieter Abbeel**2017–2018 on 13 papers*3 papers here · 2,492 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pieter-abbeel/)
55. [**Susan Zhang**2019 on 2 papers*2 papers here · 2,482 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-zhang/)
56. [**Paul Christiano**2018–2021 on 2 papers*2 papers here · 927 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-christiano/)
57. [**Jeff Clune**2019–2021 on 7 papers*2 papers here · 788 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-clune/)
58. [**Yung-Sung Chuang**current · 2025 on 1 paper*2 papers here · 755 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yung-sung-chuang/)
59. [**Rewon Child**2020 on 4 papers*2 papers here · 595 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rewon-child/)
60. [**Tim Vieira**2024 on 2 papers*2 papers here · 437 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-vieira/)
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