Chaya Nayak Family, Biography

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Husband: Tom Matthias

Hometown: Pune, Maharashtra

Bio/Wiki
Profession	Corporate Employee
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Personal Life
Birthplace	Pune, Mumbai, India
Nationality	American
Hometown	Pune, Mumbai, India
College/University	• University of Wisconsin • University of California
Educational Qualification	• Graduation in Global Studies (Security, Peace Studies, Spanish) from the University of Wisconsin • Postgraduation in Public Policy from the University of California
Religion	Hinduism
Food Habit	Non-vegetarian
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Family
Husband/Spouse	Tom Matthias
Parents	Suchita Nayak
Siblings	Brother- 1
Favourite
Food	Tacos, Pizza

Some Lesser Known Facts About Chaya Nayak

In January 2010, Chaya Nayak began working as a Project Manager at Pathways to Empowerment in Pune, India. She served in the position till May 2010.

From 2011 to 2012, she served as a Geographic Information Specialist at the City of Milwaukee Office of Environmental Sustainability in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In 2014, Chaya Nayak worked as a Consultant at The Ergo Group for less than a year in Berkeley, California.

That same year, she worked as a Consultant at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California.

From August 2012 to May 2014, Chaya Nayak served as a Head Graduate Student Instructor (Intermediate Microeconomics) at UC Berkeley, California.

In June 2013, she began working as an Impact and Program Manager at Samasource in San Francisco. She served in the position till May 2014.

At Samasource, Chaya Nayak managed teams in India and Africa that worked on creating training datasets for machine learning projects.

She also led studies that measured how the work helped improve the income and living standards of the Samasource workers, supporting the company’s social responsibility goals.
An old picture of Chaya Nayak while delivering a lecture

From 2014 to 2015, she worked at Quid in its Product and Consulting department in San Francisco. At Quid, she managed big technological company accounts like Intel and venture capital firms.

Chaya Nayak used Quid’s language search tool to find market information that helped companies plan strategies, make purchases, and check business details.

She also led important products and helped in designing product features based on what customers wanted.

In 2015, Chaya Nayak began working as a Data Scientist Solutions Engineer and Data Scientist at Premise Data Corporation in San Francisco. She served in the position till 2016.

At Premise Data Corporation, she created live dashboards that showed consumer price data for the World Bank.

These dashboards used computer vision and map-based statistics to study inflation in countries like Yemen, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

From 2020 to 2023, Chaya Nayak served as a First Mover Fellow at The Aspen Institute.

Chaya Nayak was promoted to the position of Product Manager and Head of Research and Transparency in June 2018.

In May 2023, she took the role of Director of Product Management in Generative AI in Menlo Park, California.

Chaya Nayak created products called Disaster Maps to help communities in emergencies.

At the Facebook Open Research and Transparency (FORT) team, she worked to solve problems like cleaning data, protecting privacy, and managing secure data spaces.

Chaya Nayak played a key role during various important events such as the 2020 US elections.

Chaya Nayak during a conference

She co-wrote several key research papers about Meta’s effect on democracy that were published in top journals like Science.

Chaya Nayak worked on the last three versions of Llama and Meta AI to solve difficult problems quickly. She helped imagine how the next generation of AI could affect society.

In August 2025, she left Meta and joined OpenAI in its Special Initiatives department.

At OpenAI, Chaya Nayak began working alongside Irina Kofman, who is also a former Meta worker who joined OpenAI in 2024.

She works as a volunteer Secretary (Board of Directors) and Organisational Development Associate at Sweet Water Foundation, United States.

Chaya Nayak likes travelling to distant places and trekking in her free time.
Chaya Nayak during trekking

She is often spotted enjoying alcoholic beverages on various occasions.
Chaya Nayak while enjoying an alcoholic beverage