Wojciech Zaremba

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] 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] 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]