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Researcher

Angela Fan

Angela Fan is an AI researcher whose papers span story generation, long-form question answering, structured dropout and multilingual translation. In 2018 she co-wrote Hierarchical Neural Story Generation, and in 2019 she co-wrote ELI5: Long Form Question Answering. Reducing Transformer Depth on Demand with Structured Dropout was posted to arXiv in September 2019 with two other authors. Beyond English-Centric Multilingual Machine Translation followed in 2021, and Llama 2 (2023) and The Llama 3 Herd of Models (2024) also list her among their authors. She is on OpenAI's scaling team, which she joined in July 2025 after working as an AI researcher at Meta.

Timeline

  1. 2018

    Hierarchical story generation

    In 2018 she co-writes Hierarchical Neural Story Generation with Mike Lewis and Yann Dauphin, a paper built on 300K human-written stories paired with writing prompts.

  2. 2019

    ELI5 long-form question answering

    She co-writes ELI5: Long Form Question Answering in 2019 with Yacine Jernite, Ethan Perez, David Grangier, Jason Weston and Michael Auli.

  3. September 2019

    Structured dropout for transformers

    Reducing Transformer Depth on Demand with Structured Dropout is posted to arXiv in September 2019 with two other authors.

  4. 2021

    Beyond English-centric translation

    She co-authors Beyond English-Centric Multilingual Machine Translation in 2021 with Shruti Bhosale, Holger Schwenk and others.

  5. July 2023

    Co-authoring Llama 2

    Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models is posted to arXiv in July 2023 with her name on the author list.

  6. 2024

    Co-authoring the Llama 3 paper

    The Llama 3 Herd of Models, posted to arXiv in July 2024, lists her among its authors.

  7. Since 2025

    Joining OpenAI's scaling team

    OpenAI adds Angela Fan, an AI researcher from Meta, to its scaling team in July 2025.

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  1. [1805.04833] Hierarchical Neural Story Generation arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Hierarchical Neural Story Generation - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. ELI5: Long Form Question Answering - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. [1909.11556] Reducing Transformer Depth on Demand with Structured Dropout arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Beyond English-Centric Multilingual Machine Translation jmlr.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. [2307.09288] Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. [2407.21783] The Llama 3 Herd of Models arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. OpenAI Poaches Top Engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta in Escalating AI Talent War theoutpost.ai. Checked 14 October 2026.
  9. What Is OpenAI's Scaling Team? Tesla, xAI, Meta Engineers Join Their Ranks as AI Hiring Competition Heats Up ibtimes.sg. Checked 14 October 2026.