Yonadav Shavit
Member Of Policy Staff at OpenAI
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYonadav Shavit is a policy-focused technologist with 12 years of experience bridging advanced AI research and public policy, currently serving on OpenAI’s policy staff after a technical stint there. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard and graduate training at MIT, bringing deep technical credentials to government-facing policy work. His background spans robotics, ML consulting, and roles at Schmidt Futures and climate-focused nonprofits, enabling him to translate complex technical tradeoffs into actionable regulatory recommendations. Based in Cambridge, MA, he specializes in channeling popular demand for smarter AI governance into specific, tech-informed policy victories—a rare mix of hands-on research pedigree and practical policy execution.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Harvard University
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (55)
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robotics8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yo-shavit/sparse-model-learning
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:84 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
yoshavit/fairml-farm
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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