Jonathan Ward

I’m building systems that turn the data from your digital life into continuously improving models you own.

Now

Continual data. Automatic training. User-owned models.

OpenAI — Posttraining research, 2026–2020
- (2026-2025) Managed the ChatGPT Apps research team
- (2025-2024) Led webapp-generation research 📱🍓
- (2024) Co-created ChatGPT Memory
- (2023) Co-created the Human Data Platform 🪶
- (2022-2021) Alignment research on self-critiquing models
Sisu Data — Product engineering, 2020–2019
Rigetti Computing — Quantum computing, 2019–2017
- Worked on approximate quantum algorithms
Harvard — BA in Physics, class of 2017
- Topological quantum computing in the Yacoby Lab