Harvey Mudd College
University of Washington
Alexander KirillovMember of Technical Staff · Thinking Machines LabResearcher↗
Researcher
Rowan Zellers
Thinking Machines LabMember of Technical Staff
Zellers created HellaSwag, a test that asks AI to choose the sensible continuation of an everyday situation and exposed major gaps in machine common sense. He later helped develop models that understand language, images, video and speech together in real time.
Career & education
Current roleThinking Machines Lab2025-presentMember of Technical Staff
Thinking Machines Lab2025-presentPreviously
OpenAI2022-2025Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI2022-2025Work 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.
citations62,876As of Oct 20, '26
citations+8,259Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
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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