OpenAI recently appointed Srinivas Narayanan as Vice President of Engineering. Narayanan was previously at Meta (formerly known as Facebook) where he served as VP of Engineering. Taking to LinkedIn, Srinivas expressed his excitement to work with the brilliant minds at OpenAI and to be a part of their incredible work.
Srinivas has 13 years of experience in research related to computer vision, natural language processing, speech and personalization. At Meta, he was instrumental in initiating the interest graph, introducing the location product and overseeing engineering for the photos project. Before joining Meta, he co-founded Viralizr, a startup which developed consumer products with a focus on social collaboration. Prior to that, Srinivas worked at IBM, serving as a software engineer.
Notably, Srinivas is not the only one switching from a large tech firm to OpenAI. Former Google AI researchers like Hyung Won Chung, Jason Wei, Shane Gu, among others, are also part of OpenAI.
OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research laboratory focusing on developing advanced AIs and its applications. Founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman, its mission is to ensure artificial intelligence is developed safe, securely and for the benefit of humanity.
Srinivas Narayanan is an experienced software engineer and entrepreneur, who was most recently VP of Engineering at Meta (formerly known as Facebook). He is well-versed in computer vision, natural language processing, speech and personalization projects. Srinivas has extensive experience in developing consumer products with a focus on social collaboration. He has held various positions at leading companies like IBM and Meta. He is also the co-founder of Viralizr. Recently, Srinivas was appointed Vice President of Engineering by OpenAI to bring his expertise and industry know-how to their team.
