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Ilge Akkaya

Ilge Akkaya is a research scientist at OpenAI working on reinforcement learning and robotics. His personal website lists a PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley and a BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University.

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Last reviewedMar 12, 2026

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Official homepage Scholar profile Structured work Structured education

updated Unknown location 3 public sources

Reinforcement LearningRobotics

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Cleanup improvement: added a verified headshot URL and current OpenAI work entry from the personal homepage.

Education

UC Berkeley (EECS) PhD

Bilkent University (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) BS

Work

OpenAI Research Scientist

Public links

website Personal website github GitHub profile google_scholar Google Scholar profile

Organizations

core OpenAI

Reports

Large Language Models GPT-4 Technical Report

Official and primary sources

https://ilgeakkaya.github.io/ Official source · homepage https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2JCJHXoAAAAJ&hl=en Official source · scholar

Supporting sources

https://github.com/ilgeak Supporting source · github

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