Joy leads the life sciences research team at OpenAI. The goal of the team is to accelerate basic research and drug discovery, by operating across the model training stack to improve model capabilities from molecules to organisms. At OpenAI, Joy previously worked on model safety, personalization, search, and representation learning. She holds a PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard, where she studied the in-patient evolution of cancer cells during immunotherapy as well as the evolution of antibiotic resistance.