Ruoming Pang is a prominent artificial intelligence researcher who joined OpenAI in February 2026. He is known for his senior leadership roles in AI development at major technology companies, including Meta, Apple, and Google. Prior to OpenAI, Pang was a key figure in Meta's Superintelligence Labs and led Apple's in-house AI modeling team. ^[3]​

Career

OpenAI

In February 2026, OpenAI announced it had hired Ruoming Pang after pursuing him for several months. His move to OpenAI occurred amid a highly competitive environment where major tech companies compete for leading AI talent. ^[3]​

Meta

From July 2025 to February 2026, Pang worked as a high-profile researcher at Meta, where he oversaw the artificial intelligence infrastructure for the company's Superintelligence Labs. He was recruited as part of a major AI-focused hiring initiative by the company amid significant competition for AI talent among major technology firms. ^{[1] [3]}​

Apple

From 2021 to 2025, Pang was a key executive at Apple, where he led the development of the AI foundational models team. He supervised a team of over 100 engineers focused on creating AI models for applications like Siri and other on-device features. His team played a significant role in building generative AI features such as Genmoji, Priority Notifications, and on-device summarization, and was also involved in developing the next version of Siri and key personalization features for Apple's ecosystem. His team was considered pivotal to Apple's overall AI strategy. ^{[1] [3]}​

Google

Ruoming Pang spent approximately 15 years at Google, where he served as a principal software engineer. In this role, he oversaw foundational systems across the company. During his tenure at Google Brain, he co-led the development of the Babelfish/Lingvo deep learning framework, which was part of the speech recognition efforts. He also contributed to the development of Tacotron 2. Between 2012 and 2017, Pang co-founded Google's global authorization system known as Zanzibar and was its sole technical lead. Additionally, he co-developed a search system built on Bigtable that was subsequently adopted by over 1,000 projects within Google. ^[1]​

Education

Ruoming Pang earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University (2000–2006). He previously completed a Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Southern California (1998–2000) and obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (1995–1998). ^{[1] [2]}