
Nikolas TezakResearcher
OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff
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Researcher · Academic
Research Scientist at OpenAI
Lupsasca is a prize-winning black-hole theorist using AI to accelerate scientific discovery. He helped predict the photon-ring structure targeted by future black-hole observations and now works at OpenAI on AI for Science while remaining a Vanderbilt professor and project scientist for the Black Hole Explorer.
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