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Jacob Tsimerman: U of T to OpenAI

Jacob Tsimerman is taking leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI. He retains his Toronto affiliation.

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Fig. 1 Jacob Tsimerman, Canada to United States, announced Jul 2026.
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"For me, at this moment, going to OpenAI made the most sense in part because one of the things that I'm most lacking is a background in software engineering... from the perspective of just getting myself in a better position to understand the whole picture, joining an AI lab right now made the most sense." — Tsimerman, interview with The Atlantic (July/August 2026).
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Jacob Tsimerman works in number theory.

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