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People shaping AI

Explore researchers, founders, engineers, and other notable people shaping the development and deployment of AI.

347 people · showing 49-72

Danijar HafnerResearcher

Google DeepMind

Staff Research Scientist

World Models Reinforcement Learning Deep Learning

15,929 citations

Edward HuResearcher

Independent

Machine Learning Systems Foundation Models Reasoning

41,803 citations

Ya-Qin ZhangResearcher

Tsinghua University

Chair Professor and Dean

Robotics Autonomous Vehicles AI Safety

29,085 citations

Marcus HutterResearcher

Google DeepMind +1

Senior Researcher

Information Theory AI for Science

14,075 citations

Santosh VempalaResearcher

Georgia Tech

Professor

Algorithms Optimization Theoretical Computer Science

27,073 citations

Aravind SrinivasResearcher

Perplexity

Co-founder and CEO

Natural Language Processing Large Language Models

14,659 citations

Boris GinsburgResearcher

NVIDIA

Senior Director

Deep Learning Speech and Audio

15,475 citations

Adam SantoroResearcher

Google DeepMind

Senior Staff Research Scientist

Computational Neuroscience Machine Learning

25,215 citations

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David BuddenResearcher

PingYou

Founder and CEO

Reinforcement Learning Distributed Systems Machine Learning Systems

15,659 citations

David CoxResearcher

IBM

Vice President

Generative AI Large Language Models Computational Neuroscience

26,087 citations

Deepak NarayananResearcher

NVIDIA

Senior Applied Deep Learning Research Scientist

Distributed Systems Machine Learning Systems

23,355 citations

Edward GrefenstetteResearcher

Google DeepMind +1

Director of Research

Natural Language Processing Reinforcement Learning Meta-Learning

25,159 citations

Grégoire MialonResearcher

Meta

Research Scientist

Large Language Models Natural Language Processing Machine Learning

22,629 citations

Linxi "Jim" FanResearcher

NVIDIA

Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist; Co-Lead, GEAR Lab

Robotics AI Agents Foundation Models

16,641 citations

Zhenda XieResearcher

DeepSeek

AI Researcher

Foundation Models Self-Supervised Learning

34,184 citations

Arash VahdatResearcher

NVIDIA

Research Director

Machine Learning Computer Vision

18,227 citations

John NhamResearcher

OpenAI

Research

Reasoning Reinforcement Learning Post-Training

32,201 citations

Ofir NachumResearcher

OpenAI

Researcher

Reinforcement Learning AI Agents Imitation Learning

27,783 citations

Pierre StockResearcher

Mistral AI

VP of Science Operations

Machine Learning Deep Learning

19,886 citations

Bill PeeblesResearcher

Independent

Generative AI Computer Vision Foundation Models

10,373 citations

Denis YaratsResearcher

Perplexity

Co-founder and CTO

Reinforcement Learning Robotics Deep Learning

10,487 citations

Filip RadenovicResearcher

Meta

Research Scientist

Computer Vision Information Retrieval Generative AI

27,599 citations

Gautier IzacardResearcher

Microsoft AI

Member of Technical Staff

Natural Language Processing Information Retrieval Deep Learning

37,671 citations

Jason D. LeeResearcher

UC Berkeley

Associate Professor of EECS and Statistics

Theoretical Computer Science Optimization Statistics

27,874 citations