Ilge Akkaya

Ilge Akkaya is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, focusing on advanced artificial intelligence research and development. Here are some key details about her background and work:

Education and Career

Ilge holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.13 Prior to that, she completed her Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University.

Her career path includes:

• Currently working as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI since 201923
• Previously worked on robotics and multi-agent AI systems at OpenAI3
• Completed her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, where she was part of the Ptolemy research group, advised by Edward A. Lee3

Research Focus

At OpenAI, Ilge's work encompasses several areas:

• Program synthesis research3
• Robotics and multi-agent AI systems3
• Involvement in projects like Robogym, a library of robotics environments used in research releases such as "Solving Rubik's Cube with a Robot Hand" and "Asymmetric self-play for automatic goal discovery in robotic manipulation"3

Publications and Contributions

Ilge has contributed to numerous publications and research projects, including:

• Co-author on the GPT-4 technical report1
• Work on video pretraining (VPT) for learning to act by watching unlabeled online videos1
• Research on systems engineering for industrial cyber-physical systems1
• Contributions to asymmetric self-play for automatic goal discovery in robotic manipulation1

Her research interests span areas such as reinforcement learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on developing advanced AI systems and applications.