Nitish Shirish Keskar

Nitish Shirish Keskar is a highly experienced research scientist specializing in deep learning and natural language processing. Currently a member of the technical staff at OpenAI since April 2022, Keskar has previously held the position of Principal Research Scientist at Salesforce, where expertise included language modeling, text generation, scaling transformer models, and model security. Keskar's academic background includes a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University, where research focused on nonsmooth optimization and deep learning. Additional experience includes internships at Intel Corporation, IBM, and various research roles at the Indian Institute of Science and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, contributing to advancements in training algorithms and optimization for deep learning applications.