Naomi Bashkansky

Naomi Bashkansky
Personal information
Born2003 (age 22–23)
Chess career
Country United States
TitleWoman International Master (2017)
Peak rating2095 (May 2018)

Naomi Bashkansky (born 2003), is an American chess player, a World Schools Chess Champion (Girls U13),[1] a North American Junior Girls Under 20 Champion,[2] and a Woman International Master.[3] She currently works in the artificial intelligence field.

Education

Bashkansky graduated from Odle Middle School in 2017, from Newport High School (Bellevue, Washington) in 2021, and from 2021 to 2024 was pursuing a concurrent bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Science at Harvard University.[4]

Chess career

Bashkansky won first place in the 2016 World Schools Chess Championship in Sochi,[5] and became the 2017 North American Junior Girls Under 20 Champion in Dallas, Texas.[2]

Bashkansky won the US All-Girls National Chess Championships U10 (in 2013)[6][7] and U12 (in 2015).[8][9] She tied for first place in the 2013 Pan-American Youth Chess Championship in Brazil, in the Girls U10 category.[10] In 2018 Bashkansky won the North American All Girls Championship.[11]

Professional career

She worked at OpenAI from January 2025 to June 2026.[4][12] She joined Conduit Intelligence, a company that describes itself as a "thought-to-text startup",[13] in July 2026.[14][12]

References

  1. ↑ "US Chess: Naomi Bashkansky Wins World Schools Champ Title". 27 December 2016.
  2. 1 2 "2017 North American Junior Girls U20 Chess Championship Final Ranking".
  3. ↑ "FIDE Profile Info - Bashkansky, Naomi".
  4. 1 2 "Naomi Bashkansky | LinkedIn".
  5. ↑ "2016 World Schools Girls U13 Final Ranking".
  6. ↑ "US Chess: All-Girls Champs Win Awards From Kasparov".
  7. ↑ "10th Annual KCF All-Girls National Chess Championships". Archived from the original on 2013-08-29.
  8. ↑ "US Chess: Cross Table for 12th All-Girls National Championship".
  9. ↑ "12th Annual KCF All-Girls National Chess Championships". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18.
  10. ↑ "XXIV Festival Panamericano de Xadrez da Juventude 2013 - Girls U10 Final Ranking".
  11. ↑ "US Chess: Queen Power In Santa Clara – Bashkansky Wins North American All Girls". 5 December 2018.
  12. 1 2 "Naomi Bashkansky Quits OpenAI to Build Thought-to-Text BCI on Largest Neural Dataset".
  13. ↑ Wright, Webb. "This Startup Will Pay You $50 to Let AI Read Your Mind". Gizmodo.
  14. ↑ "Why I'm leaving OpenAI to build telepathy | personal blog".
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