About Sander Schulhoff, Founder of Learn Prompting

Sander Schulhoff is the Founder of Learn Prompting, the first prompt engineering guide released on the internet (even before ChatGPT launched), and an award-winning AI researcher from the University of Maryland who has authored research with OpenAI, Scale AI, Hugging Face, Stanford, US Federal Reserve, and Microsoft. He is also the co-instructor of "ChatGPT for Everyone," a course created in partnership with OpenAI.

He is the organizer of HackAPrompt, the largest AI Safety competition ever run, in partnership with OpenAI, ScaleAI, and Hugging Face. The competition attracted over 3,000 AI Hackers from around the world and collected 600,000 malicious prompts, making it the largest prompt injection dataset ever collected. It was also the largest competition ever held on the AICrowd platform, surpassing Amazon’s record for most competitors by 50%. His paper from this competition was awarded Best Theme Paper at EMNLP, the leading NLP conference, selected from over 20,000 papers submitted by PhD students and professors worldwide. OpenAI cited this paper in their Instruction Hierarchy, and used the dataset to make their models 30-50% safer from prompt injections (#1 security risk in LLMs).

In his recent research paper, "The Prompt Report," Sander Schulhoff led a team of researchers from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Stanford University to conduct a comprehensive 76-page survey of over 1,500 prompting papers, analyzing the effectiveness of various prompting techniques, Agents, and Generative AI.

Schulhoff has spoken and led workshops at Microsoft, OpenAI, and Stanford University, and his Generative AI courses have trained over 3 million people to date, including thousands at Deloitte, Meta, Microsoft, and more.