MIT
University of Oxford
Giambattista ParascandoloResearch Fellow · OpenAIResearcher↗
Researcher · Executive
Dan Roberts
OpenAILead, Frontiers
Roberts brings ideas from theoretical physics to the science of AI. He co-authored The Principles of Deep Learning Theory, studied neural scaling and the limits of computation, and now leads Frontiers at OpenAI after leading its Foundations of Reinforcement Learning team.
Career & education
Current roleOpenAI2026-presentLead, Frontiers
OpenAI2026-presentPreviouslyOpenAI2024-2026Member of Technical Staff -> Lead, RL
Sequoia Capital2023-2024AI Fellow
Salesforce2019-2023Principal Researcher
Meta2018-2019Research Scientist
Institute for Advanced Study2016-2018Postdoc
Diffeo2012-?Co-founder and CTO
OpenAI2024-2026Sequoia Capital2023-2024Salesforce2019-2023Meta2018-2019Institute for Advanced Study2016-2018Diffeo2012-?Education
Work 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.
citations14,405As of Oct 27, '26
citations+2,395Since last snapshot, Jun 16, '26
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