Trapit Bansal
Research Scientist at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTrapit Bansal is a research scientist in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building next-generation language model capabilities. He was a founding member of Meta Superintelligence Labs after leading RL and reasoning frontier research at OpenAI, where he co-initiated the RL-for-reasoning effort and co-created the O1 learning-to-reason work alongside top researchers. His background blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and early Bayesian work at IISc—with hands-on industry research across Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and multiple OpenAI internships. Trapit’s work spans reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and meta-learning for NLP, demonstrating a rare mix of theory and product-facing experimentation. He pairs collaborations with leading figures like Ilya Sutskever and Lukasz Kaiser with a track record of shipping novel research directions. Colleagues describe him as a catalyst who moves high-risk, high-reward ideas from concept to demonstrable capability.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Hindi
Github Skills (15)
paper7
meta-learning6
few-shot-learning6
datasets5
multi-agent4
machine-learning4
natural-language-processing4
tensorflow4
pytorch3
numpy3
jax3
dataloader2
flake2
linting1
python1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
theTB/sctm
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
iesl/leopard
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 7 months
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