Bob McGrew
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBob Mcgrew is VP of Research at OpenAI in Menlo Park, combining executive leadership with hands-on engineering across AI research and product delivery. He moved from early engineering at PayPal and a long tenure as a director at Palantir into OpenAI in 2017, earning a rapid promotion to VP in 2018 to shape research strategy and operationalize breakthroughs. A Stanford computer science alumnus who pursued but did not complete a Ph.D., he pairs deep academic grounding with a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach. Colleagues would describe him as someone who bridges rigorous research and enterprise-grade implementation, turning novel ideas into deployable systems.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
simulations10
simulation10
physics-engine10
mujoco10
python-310
physics9
python8
openai-gym5
stable-baselines3
deep-reinforcement-learning3
reinforcement-learning3
gymnasium3
openai2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
openai/mujoco-py
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
MuJoCo is a physics engine for detailed, efficient rigid body simulations with contacts. mujoco-py allows using MuJoCo from Python 3.
Contributions:2 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
physics-enginephysicspythoncontactsbody
rll/rllab
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
rllab is a framework for developing and evaluating reinforcement learning algorithms, fully compatible with OpenAI Gym.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 branch in 1 day
reinforcement-learning-algorithmsdevelopingstable-baselinesreinforcement-learninggymnasium
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