### Reasoning Research
## Foundational Contributors
Ahmed El-Kishky, Daniel Selsam, Francis Song, Giambattista Parascandolo, Hongyu Ren, Hunter Lightman, Hyung Won Chung, Ilge Akkaya, Ilya Sutskever, Jason Wei, Jonathan Gordon, Karl Cobbe, Kevin Yu, Lukas Kondraciuk, Max Schwarzer, Mostafa Rohaninejad, Noam Brown, Shengjia Zhao, Trapit Bansal, Vineet Kosaraju, Wenda Zhou
Jakub Pachocki, Jerry Tworek (overall), Liam Fedus, Lukasz Kaiser, Mark Chen, Szymon Sidor, Wojciech Zaremba
## Core Contributors
Alex Karpenko, Alexander Wei, Allison Tam, Ananya Kumar, Andre Saraiva, Andrew Kondrich, Andrey Mishchenko, Ashvin Nair, Behrooz Ghorbani, Bohan Zhang, Brandon McKinzie, Brydon Eastman, Chak Ming Li, Chris Koch, Dan Roberts, David Dohan, David Mely, Dimitris Tsipras, Enoch Cheung, Eric Wallace, Hadi Salman, Haiming Bao, Hessam Bagherinezhad, Ilya Kostrikov, Jiacheng Feng, John Rizzo, Karina Nguyen, Kevin Lu, Kevin Stone, Lorenz Kuhn, Mason Meyer, Mikhail Pavlov, Nat McAleese, Oleg Boiko, Oleg Murk, Peter Zhokhov, Randall Lin, Raz Gaon, Rhythm Garg, Roshan James, Rui Shu, Scott McKinney, Shibani Santurkar, Suchir Balaji, Taylor Gordon, Thomas Dimson, Weiyi Zheng
Aaron Jaech, Adam Lerer, Aiden Low, Alex Carney, Alex Tachard Passos, Alexander Neitz, Alexander Prokofiev, Benjamin Sokolowsky, Boaz Barak, Borys Minaiev, Botao Hao, Bowen Baker, Brandon Houghton, Camillo Lugaresi, Chelsea Voss, Chen Shen, Chris Orsinger, Daniel Kappler, Daniel Levy, Doug Li, Eben Freeman, Edmund Wong, Eric Mitchell, Fan Wang, Felipe Petroski Such, Foivos Tsimpourlas, Geoff Salmon, Gildas Chabot, Guillaume Leclerc, Hao Sheng, Hart Andrin, Ian O’Connell, Ian Osband, Ignasi Clavera Gilaberte, Jean Harb, Jiahui Yu, Jiayi Weng, Joe Palermo, John Hallman, Jonathan Ward, Julie Wang, Kai Chen, Katy Shi, Keren Gu-Lemberg, Kevin Liu, Leo Liu, Linden Li, Luke Metz, Maja Trebacz, Manas Joglekar, Marko Tintor, Melody Guan, Mengyuan Yan, Mia Glaese, Michael Malek, Michele Wang, Michelle Fradin, Mo Bavarian, Nikolas Tezak, Ofir Nachum, Paul Ashbourne, Pavel Izmailov, Rapha Gontijo Lopes, Reah Miyara, Reimar Leike, Robin Brown, Ryan Cheu, Ryan Greene, Saachi Jain, Scottie Yan, Shengli Hu, Shuyuan Zhang, Siyuan Fu, Spencer Papay, Suvansh Sanjeev, Tao Wang, Ted Sanders, Tejal Patwardhan, Thibault Sottiaux, Tianhao Zheng, Timur Garipov, Valerie Qi, Vitchyr Pong, Vlad Fomenko, Wenting Zhan, Yann Dubois, Yinghai Lu, Yining Chen, Yu Bai, Yuchen He, Yuchen Zhang, Zheng Shao, Zhuohan Li
Lauren Yang, Mianna Chen
## Executive Leadership
Barret Zoph (organization), Bob McGrew, Greg Brockman, Jakub Pachocki, Mark Chen (organization), Mira Murati, Sam Altman, Tal Broda (organization)
## Supporting Leadership
Aidan Clark, Aleksander Madry, Christopher Hesse, David Farhi, Jie Tang, Lilian Weng, Mia Glaese, Nick Ryder
### Reasoning Technical Safety
Boaz Barak, Eric Wallace, Jieqi Yu, Kai Xiao, Saachi Jain, Sam Toizer, Sandhini Agarwal, Tejal Patwardhan
Alec Helyar, Andrea Vallone, Chong Zhang, Ian Kivlichan, Karan Singhal, Keren GuLemberg, Manas Joglekar, Melody Guan, Meghan Shah, Rahul Arora, Randall Lin, Sam Toyer, Shraman Ray Chaudhuri, Steph Lin
## Safety Infrastructure
Adam Richardson, Andrew Duberstein, Charles de Bourcy, Dragos Oprica, Florencia Leoni, Grace Zhao, Madelaine Boyd, Matt Jones, Matt Kaufer, Mehmet Yatbaz, Mengyuan Xu, Mike McClay, Mingxuan Wang, Santiago Hernandez, Trevor Creech, Vinnie Monaco, Young Cha
## Preparedness Evaluations
Andy Applebaum, Elizabeth Proehl, Erik Ritter, Evan Mays, Joel Parish, Jonathan Uesato, Katy Shi, Kevin Liu, Leon Maksin, Leyton Ho, Michele Wang, Miles Wang, Neil Chowdhury, Olivia Watkins, Patrick Chao, Rachel Dias, Samuel Miserendino
## External Red Teaming
Lama Ahmad, Michael Lampe, Troy Peterson
## Internal Red Teaming
Bowen Baker, Joost Huizinga, Karina Nguyen, Wojciech Zaremba
## Safety Leadership
Alex Beutel, Aleksander Madry, Irina Kofman, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Johannes Heidecke, Lilian Weng, Mia Glaese
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