哈佛华人物理学家尹希宣布离开OpenAI：入职约五个月，称将探索新的方向
美国加利福尼亚州旧金山——哈佛大学物理系教授尹希（Xi Yin）11月3日在社交平台X发文宣布，当天是他在OpenAI的最后一天，他决定提前结束这段旅程、去探索新的方向，但没有透露下一步安排。
尹希在帖文中感谢了OpenAI研究人员 Alex Lupsasca、Boris Alexeev 和 Dan Roberts。今年5月底，外界传出尹希离开学界、加入OpenAI的消息，他本人称这是他的第一份企业工作。在OpenAI期间，他继续从事超级智能（SI）与理论物理的交叉研究，今年10月曾以「哈佛大学／OpenAI」的身份在日本京都大学报告以超级智能（SI）辅助开展的弦理论与量子场论研究进展，包括高亏格弦振幅的一种新数值计算方法。
尹希1983年12月出生，1996年考入中国科学技术大学少年班，2001年赴哈佛大学攻读物理学博士，2006年获得博士学位，2008年起在哈佛大学物理系先后担任助理教授和副教授，2015年、31岁时晋升正教授，成为哈佛大学历史上最年轻的华人正教授之一。他的主要研究领域是弦理论与量子引力，2016年12月被宣布为2017年科学突破奖「物理学新视野奖」得主。
尹希传出加盟OpenAI消息的前一天，另一位华人学者、宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院教授苏炜杰（Weijie Su）也宣布加入OpenAI。尹希目前尚未公布离职后的去向；哈佛大学物理系官网目前仍将其列为该系教授。
Harvard Physicist Xi Yin Announces Departure From OpenAI After About Five Months, Says He Will Explore New Directions
San Francisco, California — Xi Yin, a professor of physics at Harvard University, announced in a post on X on November 3 that the day was his last at OpenAI, saying he had decided to end the journey early and explore new directions, without disclosing his next move.
In the post, Yin thanked OpenAI researchers Alex Lupsasca, Boris Alexeev and Dan Roberts. Reports that Yin had left academia to join OpenAI first surfaced in late May this year, in what he described as his first corporate job. While at OpenAI he continued working at the intersection of super intelligence (SI) and theoretical physics; in October he spoke at Kyoto University under a Harvard University/OpenAI affiliation on SI-assisted research in string theory and quantum field theory, including a new numerical method for computing high-genus string amplitudes.
Born in December 1983, Yin entered the Special Class for the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996, went to Harvard in 2001 for his doctorate, and received his PhD in 2006. He joined Harvard's physics faculty in 2008 as an assistant professor, later became an associate professor, and was promoted to full professor in 2015 at age 31, becoming one of the youngest Chinese full professors in Harvard's history. His main research areas are string theory and quantum gravity, and in December 2016 he was named a recipient of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize's New Horizons in Physics Prize.
A day before reports of Yin's move emerged, another Chinese scholar, Weijie Su, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, also announced he was joining OpenAI. Yin has not announced where he will go next; Harvard's physics department website still lists him as a professor in the department.
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