PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Chong Zhang

Chong Zhang works as a member of technical staff at OpenAI in San Francisco. His published work includes the 2022 InstructGPT paper, a 2023 study of real-world content moderation, the GPT-4 technical report, and system cards for GPT-4o and o1. OpenAI submitted the o1 system card in December 2024 and revised it in April 2026.

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Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026. Citations and h-index are hidden because this OpenAlex record may be incomplete or mix in other authors.

Timeline

  1. 2022

    InstructGPT and human feedback

    In 2022, he coauthors the NeurIPS paper on InstructGPT, which fine-tunes GPT-3 through supervised learning and reinforcement learning from human feedback.

  2. March 2023

    GPT-4 technical report

    In March 2023, he is listed as an author of OpenAI's GPT-4 Technical Report, which describes a multimodal model that accepts image and text inputs and produces text outputs.

  3. June 2023

    Real-world content moderation

    In June 2023, he coauthors an OpenAI paper on building a robust natural-language classification system for real-world content moderation.

  4. October 2024

    GPT-4o system card

    In October 2024, he is listed as an author of OpenAI's GPT-4o System Card.

  5. December 2024–April 2026

    OpenAI o1 system card

    OpenAI submits its o1 system card in December 2024 and revises it in April 2026; Zhang appears in the author list.

  6. Since 2021

    Member of technical staff at OpenAI

    He joins OpenAI as a member of technical staff in May 2021 and is still in the role in October 2026.

  1. The median h-index is 53 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labsIncludes Chong Zhang. The median h-index is 53 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, citations and moves to estimate how universities and frontier labs contribute to AI research.
  2. Google alumni founded or led 87 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes Chong Zhang. We trace 212 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 223 career moves between the labs.
  3. 14% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Chong Zhang. Our estimates of how university-to-company career transitions changed by decade, including roles added alongside an earlier job.
  4. 13 of 79 people shaping AI with a former OpenAI role now work at AnthropicIncludes OpenAI. Our estimates of where OpenAI recruits came from and where people with former OpenAI roles work now.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback papers.nips.cc. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. GPT-4 Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. A Holistic Approach to Undesired Content Detection in the Real World ojs.aaai.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. GPT-4o System Card arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. OpenAI o1 System Card arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. Find Chong Zhang's email & phone number - Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, San Francisco | SignalHire signalhire.com. Checked 19 October 2026.