Richard Chen
Senior Director Of Generative AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Chen is a Senior Director of Generative AI based in San Francisco with nine years of experience bridging cutting-edge research and product-scale ML. He began as a Research Scientist at OpenAI and has led AI and data science organizations across gaming and enterprise, driving revenue and experimentation culture—most notably delivering large MAU impact and a 20x increase in experiments at Happy Elements. Richard co-founded a self-coaching app, bringing hands-on startup product experience to later executive roles, and briefly served as Chief Data Officer before taking on generative AI leadership at GEICO. His PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Caltech underpins a quantitative approach to causal modeling, LTV optimization, and production ML systems. Colleagues describe him as a researcher-turned-operator who consistently translates advanced models into measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyB. of Sci. Physics and Math, B. of Sci. Physics and Math at Tsinghua University
French, Chinese, English
Github Skills (3)
mixture9
paper6
pytorch4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
richardchen100/o1visa_evaluation
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 day
openai/atari-demo
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Code for the blog post "Learning Montezuma’s Revenge from a Single Demonstration"
Contributions:4 commits in 16 days
blog-post
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