Trapit Bansal

Some Lesser Known Facts About Trapit Bansal

• Trapit Bansal hails from India and currently resides in San Francisco, USA.

• Trapit is an IIT Kanpur graduate with a dual degree in Mathematics and Statistics.

• In 2012, after graduation, he joined Accenture, Gurgaon, as a research analyst.

• From 2013 to 2015, Trapit was a research assistant at the Machine Learning Lab of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He worked with Prof. Ravi Kannan and Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya at IISc Bangalore.

• In 2015, Bansal moved to California. He joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst and started his MS/PhD under Prof. Andrew McCallum.

• In 2016, Trapit interned at Facebook, where he worked on deep learning for Natural Language Processing tasks.

• In 2017, he joined OpenAI as a trainee, where he focused on multi-agent reinforcement learning and meta-learning.

• In 2018, Bansal joined Google as a researcher, working on knowledge graph reasoning.

• His paper on meta-learning for continuous adaptation, presented at the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), won the best paper award.

• In 2020, Bansal interned at Microsoft Research Montréal, working on self-supervised meta-learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP).

• In 2021, Trapit Bansal earned his PhD with a thesis titled “Few‑Shot Natural Language Processing by Meta‑Learning Without Labelled Data”.

• At NeurIPS 2021, Bansal was recognised as an outstanding reviewer.

• In 2021, Bansal co-organised the 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2021) for the Association for Computational Linguistics in Thailand.

• In 2022, Bansal joined OpenAI as a research scientist, where he contributed significantly to the O1 reasoning model (a series of AI models designed for complex reasoning tasks, like those found in science, mathematics, and coding) and OpenAI’s foundational AI reasoning model.

• At OpenAI, he was part of co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s team.

• His work at OpenAI earned him a strong internal reputation, and TechCrunch later described him as one of the company’s most influential researchers.

• In June 2025, Trapit Bansal joined Meta in its new superintelligence unit. He will work in Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s team.

• At Meta’s superintelligence lab, Bansak will contribute to an AI reasoning model that will compete with industry-leading technology such as OpenAI’s o3 or DeepSeek’s R1.

• Trapit Bansak is an avid dog lover. He owned an Australian Labradoodle dog named Yuki.

• Bansal lives a very private life in San Fransico with his wife and daughter.