Kundan Kumar
Career profile

Kundan Kumar

Research Lead GPT-Live at OpenAI | Speech, Realtime and Multimodal Models, Human–AI Interaction

San Francisco, California, United States

Career path.

  1. OpenAI

    Member of Technical Staff

    Jun 2025 - Present
  2. Character.AI

    Member of Technical Staff

    Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
  3. Descript

    Engineering Manager, Applied AI Research

    May 2022 - Aug 2024
  4. Descript

    Board Member

    Oct 2019 - Jul 2024
  5. Descript

    Head of Artificial Intelligence

    Jul 2019 - May 2023
  6. Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

    PHD Student

    Sep 2017 - Aug 2022
  7. Lyrebird AI

    Co-Founder

    Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
  8. Université de Montréal

    Research Intern, MILA

    Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
  9. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Undergraduate Research Scholar

    May 2015 - Jul 2015