Biography:Wojciech Zaremba

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Wojciech Zaremba
Born (1988-11-30) 30 November 1988 (age 37)
Kluczbork, Poland
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw (MS)
École polytechnique
New York University (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsOpenAI
ThesisLearning algorithms from data (2016)
Doctoral advisor

Wojciech Zaremba (born 30 November 1988) is a Polish computer scientist and co-founder of OpenAI (2016–present).[1] He initially led OpenAI's work on robotics, notably creating a robotic arm capable of solving a Rubik's Cube. When the team was dissolved in 2020, he began leading teams working on OpenAI's GPT models, GitHub Copilot, and Codex.[2]

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.[3] In 2007, Zaremba represented Poland in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Vietnam, and won a silver medal.[4]

Zaremba studied at the University of Warsaw and École Polytechnique. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 2010,[5] followed by a bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's degree in mathematics in 2012, all from the University of Warsaw.[6][7] He then began his PhD at New York University (NYU) in deep learning under the supervision of Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.[8] Zaremba graduated and received his PhD in 2016.[9][10]

Career

During his undergraduate studies, he completed an internship at Nvidia. His PhD was divided between Google Brain where he spent a year, and Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research where he spent another year.[2][11]

During his stay at Google, he co-authored work on adversarial examples for neural networks.[12] This paper contributed to foundational research regarding adversarial attacks on neural networks.[13]

His PhD is focused on matching capabilities of neural networks with the algorithmic power of programmable computers.[14][15][16][17]

In 2015, Zaremba became one of the co-founders of OpenAI,[18] an artificial intelligence research company.[19] 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.[2]

Zaremba sits on the advisory board of Growbots,[20] 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.[21]

Honors and awards

  • Listed among the most influential Polish under 30s, Polish edition of Forbes magazine 2017[22]
  • Google Fellowship 2015[23]
  • Silver Medal in 48th International Mathematical Olympiad, Vietnam[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Wojciech Zaremba" (in en). https://www.innovatorsunder35.com/the-list/wojciech-zaremba. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Only 4 of OpenAI's 11 Founders Are Still With the Company—Where Are the Rest of Them?" (in en-US). 2024-07-12. https://observer.com/2024/07/openai-founders-career/. 
  3. ↑ "Polish mathematician among the best in the world" (in pl). http://opole.wyborcza.pl/opole/1,35114,4332094.html?disableRedirects=true. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Results from International Mathematical Olympiad" (in en-us). https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=15754. 
  5. ↑ Zaremba, Wojciech (2010). "Wykorzystanie zasady maksimum Pontryagina. Szczególne równania" (in pl). https://apd.uw.edu.pl/diplomas/75266/?_s=1. 
  6. ↑ Kościelnicki, Marcin; Magryta, Paweł; Szczepańczyk, Mariusz; Zaremba, Wojciech (2012). "Inteligentny organizer czasu na platformę Android" (in pl). https://apd.uw.edu.pl/diplomas/81572/. 
  7. ↑ Zaremba, Wojciech (2012). "Modeling the variabity of EEG/MEG data through statistical machine learning" (in pl). https://apd.uw.edu.pl/diplomas/89014/?_s=1. 
  8. ↑ "Personal website of Prof. Fergus". http://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/pmwiki/pmwiki.php. 
  9. ↑ "Wojciech Zaremba's PhD dissertation". https://cs.nyu.edu/media/publications/zaremba_wojciech.pdf. 
  10. ↑ "Reddit discussion on Wojciech Zaremba's PhD dissertation". 9 June 2016. https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4n874d/woj_zarembas_thesis_on_learning_algorithms_from/. 
  11. ↑ "Wojciech Zaremba" (in en). https://www.linkedin.com/in/wojciech-zaremba-356568164/. 
  12. ↑ 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].
  13. ↑ "Deep Learning Adversarial Examples - Clarifying Misconceptions". https://www.kdnuggets.com/deep-learning-adversarial-examples-clarifying-misconceptions. 
  14. ↑ "Augmenting neural networks with external memory using reinforcement learning". https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170323201A1/en. 
  15. ↑ Zaremba, Wojciech; Sutskever, Ilya (2014). "Learning to Execute". arXiv:1410.4615 [cs.NE].
  16. ↑ Zaremba, Wojciech; Sutskever, Ilya (2015). "Reinforcement Learning Neural Turing Machines". arXiv:1505.00521 [cs.LG].
  17. ↑ "Learning simple algorithms from examples". 28 November 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVe6kfJnRAw. 
  18. ↑ "Introducing OpenAI" (in en-US). 2024-03-13. https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/. 
  19. ↑ "OpenAI Charter" (in en-US). https://openai.com/charter/. 
  20. ↑ "Growbots' profile page". https://angel.co/growbots. 
  21. ↑ Magee, Tamlin (2023-03-24). "Silicon Valley's Latest Fascination is Exploring 'DMT Hyperspace'" (in en-US). https://www.vice.com/en/article/silicon-valley-psych-dmt-hyperspace/. 
  22. ↑ "30 the most influential Polish before 30's". https://www.forbes.pl/przywodztwo/30-przed-30-najzdolniejsi-polacy-przed-30-rokiem-zycia/ww711tk. 
  23. ↑ "Announcing the 2015 North American Google PhD Fellows" (in en-US). https://research.googleblog.com/2015/02/announcing-2015-north-american-google.html. 



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