Sébastien Bubeck – Biography

2024 – present: OpenAI

2024: VP AI and Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft (Redmond, WA, USA).

2020 – 2023: Sr. Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research, Machine Learning Foundations group (Redmond, WA, USA).

2017 – 2019: Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, Theory Group and Machine Learning and Optimization group (Redmond, WA, USA).

2014 – 2016: Researcher, Microsoft Research, Theory Group (Redmond, WA, USA).

2011 – 2014: Assistant Professor, Princeton University,
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (Princeton, NJ, USA).

Fall 2013: Visiting Scientist, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, USA).

2010 – 2011: Postdoc, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (Barcelona, Spain).

2007 – 2010: Ph.D student (speciality: Applied Mathematics), INRIA Nord Europe (Lille, France).

2008 – 2010: Teaching assistant at the University of Lille 1 (Lille, France).

July-August 2006: RIPS student (Research in Industrial Projects for Students),
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA (Los Angeles, CA, USA).

2005 – 2008: Student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Cachan, France).