University of Michigan
John NhamResearch · OpenAIResearcher↗WD
Researcher · Engineer
Will DePue
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
DePue was a core contributor to Sora and Sora 2, OpenAI's video generators, then helped post-train o3, o4-mini, GPT-4o and GPT-5. His work has focused on reward models, tool use and reducing sycophancy—the tendency for assistants to agree with users instead of answering honestly.
Career & education
Current role
Member of Technical Staff
Previously
DeepALTR
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.
citations1,976As of Jun 15, '26
citations+1,190Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
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