People
People at Stanford University
39 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Stanford University; 23 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.
Andrew Ng
Adjunct Professor (formerly Director of the Stanford AI Lab)
Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Stanford adjunct professor, and founding lead of the Google Brain team
Azalia Mirhoseini
Assistant Professor of Computer Science; directs the Scaling Intelligence lab
Stanford assistant professor directing Scaling Intelligence; co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence
Brian Hie
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Evolutionary Design
Stanford assistant professor and Arc Institute Innovation Investigator; co-senior author of Evo 2
Carlos Guestrin
Professor, Computer Science; Fortinet Founders Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of XGBoost and LIME and co-founder of Turi
Chelsea Finn
Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Stanford assistant professor who runs the IRIS lab; co-founder of Physical Intelligence and co-author of π0
Christopher Manning
Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science
Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science; co-author of GloVe and the Stanza NLP library
Christopher Ré
Professor, Department of Computer Science (Stanford AI Lab, CRFM, Machine Learning Group)
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of FlashAttention, Hyena and RedPajama; Together AI founder
Dan Jurafsky
Reynolds Professor in Humanities; Professor of Linguistics; Professor of Computer Science
Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science; co-author of Speech and Language Processing
Daphne Koller
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science (formerly the Rajeev Motwani Professor of computer science)
Founder and CEO of insitro, Coursera co-founder, and Stanford adjunct professor of computer science
Douwe Kiela
Adjunct Professor in Symbolic Systems
Researcher at Google DeepMind; co-founder and former CEO of Contextual AI; co-author of the RAG paper
Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Capital Professor of Computer Science; Co-Director, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Co-founder and CEO of World Labs, Stanford Sequoia Professor, and principal investigator of ImageNet
John Duchi
Associate Professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering
Stanford associate professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering; first author of the Adagrad paper
John Yang
Computer Science PhD student
Stanford PhD student; creator of SWE-bench and SWE-agent and senior author of the SWE-sweep benchmark
Patrick Hsu
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Co-founder and Core Investigator at Arc Institute; leads the Hsu Lab behind the Evo genome models
Percy Liang
Professor of Computer Science (and courtesy in Statistics); Director, Center for Research on Foundation Models
Stanford professor and director of CRFM; creator of Marin, first author of HELM, Together AI founder
Rishi Bommasani
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Senior Research Scholar at Stanford HAI; HELM co-author and first author of the foundation models report
Robert Tibshirani
Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Statistics
Stanford statistician; co-author of glmnet, Least Angle Regression and The Elements of Statistical Learning
Silvana Konermann
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Co-founder and Executive Director of Arc Institute; Core Investigator leading the Konermann Lab
Stefano Ermon
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Lab)
CEO of Inception, developer of Mercury diffusion LLMs; Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
Tatsunori Hashimoto
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Stanford assistant professor; advisor on Stanford Alpaca, HELM co-author, and CS336 instructor
Trevor Hastie
The John A. Overdeck Professor, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Emeritus
Maintainer of the glmnet package and co-author of The Elements of Statistical Learning; Stanford emeritus
Yejin Choi
Dieter Schwarz Foundation Professor of Computer Science; Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI
Stanford professor and HAI Senior Fellow; formerly at NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and Ai2
Yoav Shoham
Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus
Co-founder and chairman of AI21 Labs; professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford
Abigail See
PhD student in the Stanford NLP Group (graduated 2021); CS224n co-instructor and Head TA (2018–2019) (earlier role)
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind; first author of the pointer-generator summarization paper
Bill Dally
Chairman of the computer science department and Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Engineering (earlier role)
Chief scientist and SVP of Research at NVIDIA; co-author of Deep Compression; former Stanford CS chair
Brandon Yang
Previous affiliation (earlier role)
Co-founder of Cartesia; works on systems for machine learning, previously at Google Brain
Ce Zhang
Postdoctoral researcher (advised by Chris Ré) (earlier role)
Founder and CTO of Together AI; Neubauer Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Chicago
Chip Huyen
Instructor, CS 329S (earlier role)
Writer on AI system design; former NeMo core developer at NVIDIA and Stanford ML systems instructor
Dario Amodei
Postdoctoral scholar (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, a physicist turned AI leader behind Claude and safety research
Eric Mitchell
PhD student in Computer Science, advised by Chelsea Finn and Christopher D. Manning (earlier role)
Co-lead of OpenAI's Post-training Frontiers team; co-author of Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)
Ian Buck
PhD student in computer science; development lead for Brook (earlier role)
Vice president of hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA; described by NVIDIA as the inventor of CUDA
Jack Clark
Founding member of the AI Index (2017–2024) (earlier role)
Anthropic co-founder and Head of Public Benefit; writes the Import AI newsletter
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
Visiting Scholar (2012–2015) (earlier role)
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; first author of the 2015 paper that introduced diffusion models
Jiaming Song
Postdoc with Stefano Ermon (earlier role)
Creator of DDIM; former Chief Scientist at Luma AI and former research scientist at NVIDIA Research
Karan Goel
Computer Science PhD student in the Stanford AI Lab, advised by Christopher Ré (earlier role)
CEO and founder of Cartesia; co-author of the S4 and SaShiMi state space model papers
Michele Catasta
Postdoc in machine learning advised by Jure Leskovec; research scientist and instructor in AI (earlier role)
President of Replit, where Catasta led the Replit Agent projects; former Google X applied research head
Piero Molino
Staff Research Scientist, Hazy Research group (2020–2021) (earlier role)
Creator of the Ludwig declarative deep learning framework; CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico
Rohan Taori
PhD student in Computer Science, advised by Tatsu Hashimoto (earlier role)
Pretraining researcher at Anthropic; co-author of Stanford Alpaca, AlpacaFarm and AlpacaEval
Yulia Tsvetkov
Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford NLP Group (earlier role)
University of Washington associate professor working on reliable, socially aware, and multilingual NLP
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