Łukasz Kaiser
Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · Co-author of Transformer Architecture (“Attention Is All You Need”)
Key facts
- Co-authored the seminal 2017 research paper “Attention Is All You Need” at Google Brain, introducing the Transformer architecture (240,000+ citations).
- Awarded the NEC C&C Prize (often dubbed the 'Japanese Nobel') for his groundbreaking contributions to artificial intelligence; recognized by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as a “hero.”
- Graduated from High School No. XIV in Wrocław and completed his Master's thesis under Prof. Leszek Pacholski before earning his PhD at RWTH Aachen.
- Key technical figure at OpenAI driving the architectural evolution of large language models and ChatGPT.
Biography
Łukasz Kaiser is a Polish computer scientist and pivotal researcher at OpenAI. While at Google Brain, he co-created the Transformer architecture through the groundbreaking paper “Attention Is All You Need”, laying the foundation for modern generative AI and LLMs. An alumnus of the University of Wrocław and RWTH Aachen, he is widely celebrated for his core contributions to deep learning and AI capabilities.