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John Schulman is a research scientist and co-founder of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. Schulman is known for his contributions in the field of reinforcement learning (RL) and his work on improving language models like GPT.

Schulman received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was advised by Pieter Abbeel. During his time at Berkeley, Schulman worked on robotics, specifically enabling robots to tie knots and plan movement using trajectory optimization.

Prior to his work in RL, Schulman briefly worked in neuroscience at Berkeley before switching to machine learning. He studied physics at the California Institute of Technology before attending Berkeley.

At OpenAI, Schulman leads the reinforcement learning team, where they work on using RL algorithms (trial-and-error learning) to improve language models like GPT. He has also been involved in other projects at OpenAI, such as developing an AI system that can play Dota 2, a complex multiplayer online battle arena video game.

In addition to his work at OpenAI, Schulman has authored numerous research papers in the field of machine learning and robotics. He has also given presentations at conferences such as the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

Schulman maintains a personal blog where he shares his thoughts on various topics related to machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has also released code for various machine learning projects on his GitHub page.

Schulman has received several awards and honors for his work, including being named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Science category in 2016.