Jakub Pachocki
computer scientist
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.
Background
Pachocki was born in 1991 in Gdańsk, Poland. In high school, he was a six-time finalist of the Polish Olympiad in Informatics. In 2009, he qualified for the International Olympiad in Informatics, winning a silver medal.
Pachocki obtained his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Warsaw. He represented his university at the International Collegiate Programming Contest, with his team winning a gold medal and coming second place overall in 2012. In the same year he was also the champion of the Google Code Jam.
From 2011 to 2012, Pachocki worked at Facebook as a software engineering intern.
Pachocki attended graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University, where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Gary Miller.
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