{"id":960213,"date":"2025-09-09T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960213"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:41:37","slug":"meet-indian-origin-neuroscientist-akshay-jagadeesh-who-joined-openai-as-researcher-to-turn-decades-of-brain-research-into-ai-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/09\/meet-indian-origin-neuroscientist-akshay-jagadeesh-who-joined-openai-as-researcher-to-turn-decades-of-brain-research-into-ai-breakthroughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Indian-origin neuroscientist Akshay Jagadeesh who joined OpenAI as researcher to turn decades of brain research into AI breakthroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akshay Jagadeesh, an Indian-origin neuroscientist, has recently joined Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI as a research resident, marking a significant transition from academic neuroscience to cutting-edge artificial intelligence research. With nearly a decade of experience studying the human brain, Jagadeesh brings expertise in computational neuroscience, cognitive modeling, and psychology, having earned a PhD from Stanford University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He has also conducted advanced research at prestigious institutions like UC Berkeley and Humboldt University in Berlin. At OpenAI, Jagadeesh will focus on two critical areas: advancing AI safety to ensure systems are reliable and aligned with human values, and exploring how AI can accelerate medical and scientific breakthroughs, bridging the gap between human cognition and technological innovation while fostering ethical AI development globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akshay Jagadeesh, an Indian-origin neuroscientist, has recently joined Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI as a research resident, marking a significant transition from academic neuroscience to cutting-edge artificial intelligence research. With nearly a decade of experience studying the human brain, Jagadeesh brings expertise in computational neuroscience, cognitive modeling, and psychology, having earned a PhD from Stanford University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He has also conducted advanced research at prestigious institutions like UC Berkeley and Humboldt University in Berlin. At OpenAI, Jagadeesh will focus on two critical areas: advancing AI safety to ensure systems are reliable and aligned with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}