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Sean KirmaniMember of Technical Staff · OpenAIResearcher↗
Researcher
Tao Xu
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Xu introduced AttnGAN, a text-to-image system that focuses on the most relevant words while drawing different parts of a picture. This attention-based design helped models produce images with finer details that better matched complicated written descriptions.
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.
citations51,406As of Oct 18, '26
citations+4,056Since 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.
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
Whisper learns speech transcription and translation from large amounts of paired audio and text.
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