Trapit Bansal Age, Wiki and Bio

Trapit Bansal

Quick Info

ProfessionEngineer
NationalityIndian
BirthplaceSan Francisco
ReligionHinduism

Bio/Wiki

SummaryTrapit Bansal is an accomplished engineer known for his expertise in computer science and mathematics, contributing significantly to AI and machine learning.

Physical Stats & More

Height5' 9" (175 cm)
Eye ColorBlack
Hair ColorBlack

Educational Qualification(s)

College/University
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Degrees
  • Master of Science (Integrated) in Mathematics and Statistics (2007-2012)
  • Master of Science in Computer Science (2015 - 2019)
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (2015-2021)

Personal Life

Hobbies
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Travelling
Marital StatusMarried
WifeAkansha Singh Bansal

Family

SpouseAkansha Singh Bansal

Career

OverviewTrapit Bansal has built a remarkable career through various roles in renowned organizations.
Timeline
  • Joined Accenture, Gurgaon, as a research analyst in 2012 after graduating.
  • Worked as a research assistant at the Machine Learning Lab of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from 2013 to 2015.
  • Moved to California in 2015 to pursue his MS/PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
  • Interned at Facebook in 2016, focusing on deep learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP).
  • Joined OpenAI as a trainee in 2017, specializing in multi-agent reinforcement learning and meta-learning.
  • Became a researcher at Google in 2018, concentrating on knowledge graph reasoning.
  • Presented a landmark paper on meta-learning at the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations, winning the best paper award.
  • Interned at Microsoft Research Montréal in 2020, working on self-supervised meta-learning for NLP.
  • Completed his PhD in 2021 with notable research on few-shot NLP by meta-learning.
  • Recognized as an outstanding reviewer at NeurIPS 2021.
  • Co-organized the 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP in 2021.
  • Contributed to OpenAI's reasoning model as a research scientist from 2022 onwards.
  • Joined Meta in June 2025 in the superintelligence unit, focusing on advanced AI reasoning models.

Some Lesser Known Facts

Trapit hails from India and currently lives in San Francisco, USA.
He is an IIT Kanpur alumnus with a dual degree in Mathematics and Statistics.
He is a dog lover and previously owned an Australian Labradoodle named Yuki.
Bansal maintains a private life with his wife and daughter.