Imperial College London
Caltech
Bowen BakerResearch Scientist · OpenAIResearcher↗
Researcher · Executive
Peter Welinder
OpenAIVP and GM
Welinder was part of OpenAI's early robotics work, including Dactyl, which learned dexterous manipulation in simulation and transferred it to a physical robot hand. He later moved into product leadership, helping turn research systems into widely used consumer tools.
Career & education
Current roleOpenAI2025-presentVP and GM
OpenAI2025-presentPreviouslyOpenAI2016-2020Research Lead, Robotics
Dropbox2014-2016Head of Machine Learning
OpenAI2016-2020Dropbox2014-2016Anchovi Labs2010-2012
Co-founder and CEOEducation
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.
citations104,699As of Sep 30, '26
Selected contributions
Training Language Models to Follow Instructions with Human Feedback
With Long Ouyang, Jeffrey Wu, Xu Jiang, Diogo Almeida, Carroll Wainwright, Pamela Mishkin, Chong Zhang 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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