Sam McCandlish

Sam McCandlish is a Co-Founder at Anthropic. Sam was previously a Research Lead at OpenAI where they worked on the AI Safety team and built a team to study the science and scaling of ML. Their work on scaling laws predicted and helped pave the way for large-scale results including GPT-3. Sam is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston University, where they work on the Simons Bootstrap Collaboration.

Sam McCandlish attended Stanford University, where they earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics. Their research focused on quantum gravity, tensor networks, and tomography. Prior to their time at Stanford, McCandlish earned a BS in Math & Physics and MS in Physics from Brandeis University. Their research at Brandeis University focused on active matter, biological self-assembly, gravitational microlensing, and quantum field theory.

The team at OpenAI works with Sam McCandlish on a daily basis to help him with their work in artificial intelligence and machine learning.