AI Researchers

Geoffrey Hinton

Nobel Laureate & Emeritus Professor

University of Toronto

Yann LeCun

Chief AI Scientist

Meta AI

Yoshua Bengio

Scientific Director

Mila

Fei-Fei Li

Co-Director, HAI

Stanford University

Creator of ImageNet. Co-director of Stanford HAI. Former Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud.

Andrew Ng

Founder, DeepLearning.AI

DeepLearning.AI / Stanford

Co-founded Google Brain and Coursera. Taught millions via online courses. Democratized ML globally.

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder & CEO

Google DeepMind

Co-founded DeepMind. Led AlphaGo and AlphaFold. 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Jeff Dean

Chief Scientist

Google DeepMind

Engineer behind MapReduce, BigTable, TensorFlow. Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind.

Alec Radford

Research Scientist

OpenAI

Lead author of GPT, GPT-2, GPT-3, CLIP, and Whisper. Most impactful AI paper author of the decade.

Stuart Russell

Professor

UC Berkeley

Author of the world's leading AI textbook. Pioneer in probabilistic reasoning. Leading voice on AI safety.

David Baker

Professor & HHMI Investigator

University of Washington

David Baker is a pioneer in computational protein design, developing Rosetta and RoseTTAFold. His lab has designed novel proteins with therapeutic and industrial applications. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024.

Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder & CEO, SSI

Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Co-founded OpenAI. Chief Scientist driving GPT-3 and GPT-4. Pioneer of scaling laws. Founded SSI in 2024.

Feng Zhang

Core Member & Professor

Broad Institute / MIT

Feng Zhang pioneered the application of CRISPR-Cas9 for genome editing in eukaryotic cells. He has developed multiple next-generation gene editing tools and therapeutic delivery systems.

Aviv Regev

EVP & Head of Research

Genentech / Broad Institute

Aviv Regev co-founded the Human Cell Atlas and pioneered single-cell RNA sequencing methods. Her work has transformed our understanding of cell types, states, and regulatory programs.

Oriol Vinyals

Research Director

Google DeepMind

Known for seq2seq learning and AlphaStar achieving Grandmaster level in StarCraft II.

Andrej Karpathy

Independent Researcher

Independent

Led AI at Tesla. Early GPT contributor at OpenAI. Exceptional AI educator.

Daphne Koller

Founder & CEO

insitro

Daphne Koller co-founded Coursera and insitro, applying machine learning to drug discovery. She is a MacArthur Fellow and former Stanford AI professor revolutionizing pharmaceutical R&D.

Pieter Abbeel

Professor & Co-founder

UC Berkeley / Covariant AI

Pioneer in robot learning. Co-founded Covariant AI. Known for apprenticeship and imitation learning.

Dario Amodei

Co-founder & CEO

Anthropic

Co-founded Anthropic. Leads research on constitutional AI and interpretability. CEO of the company behind Claude.

Chelsea Finn

Assistant Professor

Stanford University

Leading researcher in meta-learning and MAML. Enables robots to learn from few examples.

John Jumper

Senior Research Scientist

Google DeepMind

John Jumper led the development of AlphaFold2 at DeepMind, achieving near-experimental accuracy in protein structure prediction. His work received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024.