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Saurabh Shah

Saurabh Shah is an AI engineer whose work spans Siri, open language models and coding agents. He graduated from college in 2023 after completing a BS/MS at Penn, joined Apple's Siri Natural Language Understanding team in October 2023, and moved to Ai2's OLMo team in February 2025. He coauthored research on explanation-based finetuning; at Ai2, he explored ReLoRA pretraining, led Olmo 3 code post-training, and coauthored SERA, a coding-agent method. As of October 2026, he is a Member of Technical Staff at humans&.

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Timeline

  1. 2023

    A Penn BS/MS

    He completes a BS/MS at Penn and graduates from college in 2023.

  2. July 2023

    Explanation-based finetuning

    He coauthors a 2023 ACL paper that trains GPT-3 to generate free-text explanations supporting its answers.

  3. October 2023

    Siri natural language understanding

    In October 2023, he joins Apple to work on Siri's Natural Language Understanding stack.

  4. 2024

    OLMo and ReLoRA

    In 2024, he coauthors OLMo, an open language model built for scientific study. He explores ReLoRA, a parameter-efficient pretraining method.

  5. February 2025

    Joining Ai2's OLMo team

    After about 1.5 years at Apple, he joins Ai2's OLMo team in late February 2025.

  6. November 2025

    Code post-training for Olmo 3

    In November 2025, he leads code post-training for Olmo 3 with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. He builds code execution infrastructure and curates code training data.

  7. January 2026

    SERA coding agents

    In January 2026, he coauthors SERA, a method for training coding agents specialized to private codebases; the Ai2 release includes its code and data.

  8. As of October 2026

    Member of Technical Staff at humans&

    As of October 2026, he is a Member of Technical Staff at humans&.

Career

  1. Nowhumans&Member of Technical Staff
  2. From 2025Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
  3. From 2023Apple

Education

  1. 2023University of PennsylvaniaBS/MS

From the biography.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  2. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.
  3. 72% of AI researchers with top works connect into a single 2,592-person co-author groupIncludes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). We map the co-author network across 3,593 people shaping AI and 14,977 most-cited papers: 2,592 (72%) form one connected group with a median distance of 5 steps, led in 2-step reach by Yoshua Bengio (570) and in shortest-path bridging by Yoshua Bengio (6.7%).
  4. Direct Form 990 pay in the latest returns of 39 nonprofits with AI people on this site is highest at $2.1M at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) (2024)Includes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). IRS Form 990 compensation across 39 nonprofits with AI people on this site from 2012 to 2025: in the latest returns, Mozilla reports $6.1M including related-company pay (2024) and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) leads direct nonprofit pay at $2.1M (2024).

Colleagues

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  1. Welcome to The Learning Curve learnycurve.substack.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Saurabh Shah - Member of Technical Staff at humans& saurabhs.site. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Explanation-based Finetuning Makes Models More Robust to Spurious Cues - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Training Olmo 3 to Think and Code learnycurve.substack.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Olmo 3 arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. SERA: Soft-Verified Efficient Repository Agents arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.