UC Berkeley
Bilkent University
Bowen BakerResearch Scientist · OpenAIResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
Ilge Akkaya
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Career & education
Current roleOpenAI2019-presentMember of Technical Staff
OpenAI2019-presentEducation
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.
citations36,808As of Nov 7, '26
Selected contributions
GPT-4 Technical Report
With OpenAI, Joshua Achiam, Steven Adler, Sandhini Agarwal, Lama Ahmad, Florencia Leoni Aleman, Diogo Almeida and others ·Reported GPT-4's capabilities, limitations and safety evaluations as a text-and-image input model.
References
- Ilge Akkaya — research overviewilge.github.io
Current personal account: researcher and team lead on the reasoning team developing models such as o1 and o3.
- Solving Rubik’s Cube with a robot handopenai.com
Coauthorship and simulation-trained robot hand; personal CV specifies software interfaces, infrastructure and reinforcement-learning training contributions.
- Learning to play Minecraft with Video PreTrainingopenai.com
Coauthorship of Video PreTraining and Minecraft learning from online human-play videos with a small labeled dataset.
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