Shawn Jain

Shawn Jain is a researcher and engineer who worked as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI from January 2021 to December 2023.1 He specializes in investigating core problems in artificial intelligence, cognition, and sensing, with a focus on applications in computer vision, robotics, and natural language.12

Career Highlights

• OpenAI: As a Member of Technical Staff, Jain worked on open-endedness algorithms that generate an endless variety of interesting artifacts.1 He was also a contributor to the Code Interpreter feature in ChatGPT, where he trained the model to iteratively debug using data augmentation techniques.2

• Microsoft: Prior to OpenAI, Jain was an AI Resident at Microsoft from September 2019 to December 2020, focusing on fundamental machine learning research.1

• Other Experience: Jain has interned at various tech companies, including Google Fiber and Appian Corporation.1

Education and Research

Jain studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was involved in undergraduate research at the MIT Media Lab.1 He has collaborated with notable researchers in the field of AI, including Ken Stanley and Joel Lehman at OpenAI, and was mentored by Greg Yang at Microsoft Research.2

Current Endeavors

As of 2024, Shawn Jain is:

1. Co-founder of Synthefy, a company building generative AI for time-series data.2
2. Venture Partner at Lightscape Partners.2
3. Angel investor and advisor to promising startups.12

Jain maintains a strong interest in frontier technologies and focuses on creating new IP and original research, as well as transferring technology from lab to product.12