People
People at Apple
26 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Apple; 9 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Alexander Toshev
Listed with Apple on the RLTL;DR paper (September 2026)
Apple machine learning researcher; co-author of DataComp-LM, MobileCLIP2, and recent agent-training work
Angelos Katharopoulos
Member of the Machine Learning Research group
One of the four initial developers of MLX, Apple's array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon
Craig Federighi
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering
Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering, also responsible for Apple's core AI efforts
David Grangier
Machine Learning Group, Apple Research
Machine learning researcher at Apple; co-author of the fairseq sequence modeling toolkit
Fartash Faghri
Machine learning researcher, Apple Machine Learning Research
Machine learning researcher at Apple Machine Learning Research; co-author of FastVLM and MobileCLIP
Johny Srouji
Chief Hardware Officer
Apple's chief hardware officer, overseeing Apple silicon and the company's hardware technologies
Ronan Collobert
Research scientist, Machine Learning Research
Research scientist in Apple Machine Learning Research; developer of Torch, wav2letter, and flashlight
Samy Bengio
Senior Director, AI and Machine Learning Research
Senior Director of AI and Machine Learning Research at Apple; sponsor of the MLX library
Tim Cook
Executive Chair
Apple executive chair and CEO from 2011 to 2026, whose tenure included Apple Intelligence
Ahmad Al-Dahle
Created and led Apple's autonomous technology group (2014); earlier worked on iPhone display and multitouch systems (earlier role)
Chief Technology Officer at Airbnb; founded Meta's Generative AI group and led the team behind Llama
Awni Hannun
Research Scientist (earlier role)
Co-creator of MLX, an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon
Carlos Guestrin
Senior Director of Machine Learning and AI (earlier role)
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of XGBoost and LIME and co-founder of Turi
Chris Lattner
Several roles including managing the Developer Tools department (July 2005 to January 2017) (earlier role)
Co-founder of Modular, maker of the MAX inference framework and the Mojo language
Daniel Gross
Ran AI and search projects (2013–2017) (earlier role)
Co-Lead of Meta Compute; co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. and of the search engine Cue
Edouard Grave
Research scientist in the Apple MLR corporate research lab (earlier role)
Equal-contribution author of Meta's LLaMA paper; co-author of fastText and of Kyutai's Moshi
Hsiao-Wuen Hon
Technology Director for the Chinese Dictation Kit (earlier role)
Emeritus Researcher at Microsoft Research; former Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia
Ian Goodfellow
Director of Machine Learning, Special Project Group (earlier role)
First author of the Generative Adversarial Networks paper and co-author of the Deep Learning textbook
John Giannandrea
Senior Vice President, Machine Learning and AI Strategy (2018–2025) (earlier role)
Former Apple senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, overseeing Core ML and Siri
Jonathan Cohen
Director of Engineering (earlier role)
NVIDIA AI software leader who led NeMo development; listed in the Nemotron 3 leadership credits
Kai-Fu Lee
Headed the multimedia division (six years) (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of 01.AI; developed CMU's Sphinx speech recognizer; earlier at Apple, Microsoft and Google
Logan Kilpatrick
Trained machine learning models (early career) (earlier role)
Works on helping developers build with Gemini at Google DeepMind; co-host of Around the Prompt
Niko Grupen
Machine learning engineer (earlier role)
Head of Applied Research at Harvey; lead byline on the Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB) announcement
Richard Kerris
Directed developer relations and managed Final Cut Pro, Logic and Aperture (earlier role)
Industry general manager for media and entertainment at NVIDIA; former CTO of Lucasfilm
Ruoming Pang
Overall lead of the foundation models contributors on the Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models report (2024) (earlier role)
Overall lead of Apple's 2024 foundation language models and corresponding author of AXLearn; now at Meta
Vaishaal Shankar
Listed with Apple as a shared last author of the DataComp-LM paper (2024) (earlier role)
Machine learning researcher; shared last author of DataComp-LM at Apple and a co-lead of OpenCLIP
Vipul Ved Prakash
Senior Director leading search and AI efforts in Siri (after Apple acquired Topsy) (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of Together AI, which builds a cloud platform for training and running large models
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