Shyamal Anadkat spent nearly four years at OpenAI, where he led the Applied Evals team evaluating and improving AI system performance and safety, and authored numerous OpenAI Cookbook guides on function calling, fine-tuning, evals, and vision. In 2026 he left OpenAI and moved back to India, writing publicly about building globally consequential AI institutions outside Silicon Valley.123
At a glance
- Current role
- None confirmed in the sources
- Company
- OpenAI
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
OpenAI Applied Evals and Cookbook
The Indian Express reported Anadkat led OpenAI's Applied Evals team. OpenAI Cookbook registry credits him as author or co-author on guides including summarization evaluation, function calling with OpenAPI specs, fine-tuning for function calling, reproducible outputs with seed, GPT-4 Vision function calling, and getting started with OpenAI Evals.12
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Documented roles
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Where they work
- OpenAI 93 people in the wiki
Related people
- Miles BrundageAlso at OpenAI
- Jack ClarkAlso at OpenAI
- Diogo AlmeidaAlso at OpenAI
- Jacob SteinhardtAlso at OpenAI
- Collin BurnsAlso at OpenAI
- Terry Yue ZhuoEvaluation and benchmarks · Developer tools
- Harold BoothEvaluation and benchmarks · Safety and alignment
- Niklas MuennighoffEvaluation · Developer tools
- Marius HobbhahnEvaluation and benchmarks · Safety and alignment
- Maarten SapSafety and alignment · Evaluation and benchmarks
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026