John Schulman - Wikidata Entry
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This Wikidata entry is a structured reference for John Schulman, co-founder of OpenAI and key contributor to RLHF and PPO; useful for biographical lookups but not a primary source for his research.
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Wikidata structured data entry for John Schulman, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI known for developing Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and contributions to reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). This page provides machine-readable biographical and professional metadata about a key figure in AI alignment and capabilities research.
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- •John Schulman is a co-founder of OpenAI and a leading researcher in reinforcement learning and AI alignment
- •He developed Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), a widely used RL algorithm foundational to RLHF-based alignment techniques
- •His work on RLHF has been central to training safety-aligned large language models like ChatGPT
- •Wikidata entry provides structured linked data including affiliations, publications, and biographical facts
- •Schulman later joined Anthropic in 2024, signaling shifts in the AI safety research landscape
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| Entity | Property | Value | As Of |
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| John Schulman | Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schulman | — |
| John Schulman | Education | University of California, Berkeley; California Institute of Technology | — |
| John Schulman | Website | http://joschu.net/ | — |
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American computer scientist
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American computer scientist
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male
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John
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Schulman
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computer scientist
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OpenAI
start time
2015
end time
August 2024
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-06/openai-co-founder-john-schulman-departs-for-ai-rival-anthropic
retrieved
19 February 2025
Anthropic
start time
August 2024
end time
February 2025
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/former-openai-technology-chief-mira-muratis-ai-startup-taps-top-researchers-2025-02-18/
retrieved
19 February 2025
Thinking Machines Lab
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February 2025
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/former-openai-technology-chief-mira-muratis-ai-startup-taps-top-researchers-2025-02-18/
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19 February 2025
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University of California, Berkeley
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doctorate
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2016
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Mathematics Genealogy Project
California Institute of Technology
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2010
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https://rll.berkeley.edu/SBRS2013/bios.html
doctoral advisor
Pieter Abbeel
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Mathematics Genealogy Project
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http://joschu.net/
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