Jakub Pachocki

Jakub Pachocki (born 1991) is a Polish computer scientist and former competitive programmer. He is best known as OpenAI's chief scientist and for his role in overseeing development of GPT-4.[1][2][3] Pachocki was born in 1991 in Gdańsk, Poland. In high school, he was a six-time finalist of the Polish Olympiad in Informatics [pl].[4] In 2009, he qualified for the International Olympiad in Informatics, winning a silver medal.[5] Pachocki obtained his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Warsaw.[4] He represented his university at the International Collegiate Programming Contest, with his team winning a gold medal and coming second place overall in 2012.[5] In the same year he was also the champion of the Google Code Jam.[4][5] From 2011 to 2012, Pachocki worked at Facebook as a software engineering intern.[4] Pachocki attended graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University, where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Gary Miller.[4][6]