Isa (Isabella) Fulford is a research lead at OpenAI. OpenAI's Deep Research launch and subsequent ChatGPT Agent coverage credit her with leading Deep Research and later the ChatGPT Agent team; she has discussed GPT-5 and agents on the a16z podcast with Christina Kim. Forbes lists her among OpenAI product/research leads.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Research lead (Deep Research / ChatGPT Agent)
- Company
- OpenAI
- Fields
- Agents, Language models, Evaluation
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
Deep Research and ChatGPT Agent
OpenAI's February 2025 Deep Research announcement and later ChatGPT Agent materials describe multi-step web research and computer-use agents. Fulford is publicly identified as the research lead for those efforts and appeared with Christina Kim on a16z's GPT-5 and Agents breakdown.12
Timeline
- OpenAI introduces Deep Research.1
Where they work
- OpenAI 93 people in the wiki
Related people
- Shunyu YaoAlso at OpenAI
- Joy JiaoAlso at OpenAI
- Mark ChenAlso at OpenAI
- Hyung Won ChungAlso at OpenAI
- Collin BurnsAlso at OpenAI
- Yoav ShohamLanguage models · Agents
- Gabe PereyraAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Thomas ScialomLanguage models · Agents
- Sameer SinghEvaluation and benchmarks · Language models
- Owain EvansLanguage models · Evaluation and benchmarks
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026