Manas Rajendra Joglekar

Manas Joglekar is a research engineer and Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, working on ML systems and AI safety/alignment (co-author of the OpenAI o1 and gpt-5 system cards, weak-to-strong generalization, and deliberative alignment). Previously a founding engineer leading machine learning foundations at Snorkel AI, a senior software engineer at Google, and an intern at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, IST Austria, and WorldQuant LLC. He holds a PhD from Stanford University and a degree from IIT Bombay, and represented India at the IMO in 2006 (bronze) and 2007 (silver).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Manas Rajendra Joglekar lists WorldQuant LLC as an Intern from Jul 2011 to Sep 2011 on LinkedIn. WorldQuant is a quantitative investment firm that runs systematic/algorithmic trading strategies, so this is an actual internship at a quant-finance employer, not a competition, insight day, camp, scholarship, or incoming offer. Identity is supported by the same LinkedIn profile that matches the IMO 2006/2007 India participant Manas Rajendra Joglekar and the Stanford PhD / Snorkel AI / OpenAI record. A separate 'Tower Research Infra' mention for a Manas Joglekar appears only in a competition/quiz results list and is NOT counted as employment evidence.Jul 2011
• Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI working on alignment research; his public X bio reads 'Alignment Research @ OpenAI'.2025
• Founding engineer at Snorkel AI, where he led machine learning foundations / the backend team.2021
• Earned a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University (2016); dissertation 'Reliable data quality assessment', advisor Hector Garcia-Molina. He appears in the Stanford database group PhD directory (Gates 424).2016
• The IMO official participant record gives the full name 'Manas Rajendra Joglekar', which ties the Olympiad identity to the LinkedIn/OpenAI profile used throughout this dossier.2007
• Co-author of the OpenAI o1 system card (arXiv 2312.09390) and the 'Deliberative Alignment' paper (arXiv 2412.16339), and a contributor to the openai/weak-to-strong codebase.2024
• Represented India at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2007 and won a silver medal (rank 110, 21 points).Jul 2007
• Represented India at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2006 and won a bronze medal (rank 189, 15 points).Jul 2006
• Senior Software Engineer at Google before Snorkel AI; ACM/DBLP records tie his data-management publications to 'Google, Inc.'2018
• Undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay); IMO participation in 2006/2007 places his IIT years in roughly 2007-2011, and the WorldQuant internship sits at the end of that window.2011
• OpenAI o1 system card evaluates the safety and capability thresholds of reasoning models; the work is presented on his alphaxiv profile page.2024
• Publication record spans data management and crowdsourcing (e.g. 'Interactive data exploration with smart drill-down', SIGMOD; 'Evaluating the Crowd with Confidence') as part of the Stanford InfoLab.2017