Researcher · Founder
Carroll Wainwright
Current role not listed
Wainwright helped develop InstructGPT, the influential OpenAI project that used human feedback to make language models follow instructions more reliably. He also co-founded Metaculus.
Career & education
OpenAIEducation
Pomona College
UC Santa CruzWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations64,553As of Jun 15, '26
citations+26,602Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
Selected contributions
Training Language Models to Follow Instructions with Human Feedback
With Long Ouyang, Jeffrey Wu, Xu Jiang, Diogo Almeida, Pamela Mishkin, Chong Zhang, Sandhini Agarwal and others ·InstructGPT uses human feedback to train language models to follow instructions.
GPT-4 Technical Report
With OpenAI, Joshua Achiam, Steven Adler, Sandhini Agarwal, Lama Ahmad, Ilge Akkaya, Florencia Leoni Aleman and others ·Reported GPT-4's capabilities, limitations and safety evaluations as a text-and-image input model.
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