OpenAIResearch Scientist; Head of Sora
2023 — Apr 2026
Led the Sora video-generation effort at OpenAI. Worked on generative models and video world-simulation systems. Co-authored research on scalable diffusion models with transformers.
Bill Peebles AI researcher specializing in generative models, computer vision, and video generation. He led Sora at OpenAI and previously conducted doctoral research at UC Berkeley.
Bill Peebles AI researcher specializing in generative models, computer vision, and video generation. He led Sora at OpenAI and previously conducted doctoral research at UC Berkeley.
Career
MetaResearch Intern
May 2022 — Dec 2022
AdobeResearch Intern
Jun 2021 — Aug 2021
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Undergraduate Researcher
Oct 2017 — Jun 2019
NVIDIADeep Learning Intern
May 2017 — Aug 2017