Trapit Bansal is a research scientist at Meta focused on language-model reasoning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, deep learning, and meta-learning. Previously, he was a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and contributed to the o1 reasoning model. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an integrated master’s degree from IIT Kanpur.
Trapit Bansal is a research scientist at Meta focused on language-model reasoning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, deep learning, and meta-learning. Previously, he was a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and contributed to the o1 reasoning model. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an integrated master’s degree from IIT Kanpur.
Career
Trapit Bansal studied at University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD in Computer Science) and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (Integrated Master’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics).
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI from 2022-01 to 2025-06Contributed to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model. Worked on reasoning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, and deep learning.