People
People in agents
101 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list agents as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
Adam Fourney
Senior Principal Researcher, Human-AI eXperiences (HAX) group, AI Frontiers, Microsoft Research
Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research; author of MarkItDown and first author of Magentic-One
Aldehir Rojas
Member of the llama-common code-owner team, llama.cpp project
llama.cpp shared-code owner working on chat parsing, tool calls and JSON-schema grammars
Alex Finn
Instructor, Vibe Coding Academy
YouTube creator teaching AI-assisted coding with Claude Code and Codex; teaches Vibe Coding Academy
Alexander Toshev
Listed with Apple on the RLTL;DR paper (September 2026), Apple
Apple machine learning researcher; co-author of DataComp-LM, MobileCLIP2, and recent agent-training work
Amjad Masad
Founder and CEO, Replit
Founder and CEO of Replit; former tech lead on Facebook's JavaScript infrastructure team
Andrew Bosworth
Chief Technology Officer; Head of Reality Labs, Meta
Chief Technology Officer of Meta and head of Reality Labs; leads Meta's Agent Transformation Accelerator
Andrew Laack
Product engineer, Imbue
Product engineer at Imbue and creator of Vet, an open-source code review tool for agent-written code
Andrew White
Head of Science and co-founder, FutureHouse
Co-founder and Head of Science of FutureHouse; co-founder and CTO of Edison Scientific
Andy Konwinski
Co-founder, MoTS, Board; Laude Ventures Co-founder and GP, Laude Institute and Laude Ventures
Co-founder of Laude, Databricks and Perplexity; co-author of the Terminal-Bench and Mesos papers
Arvind Jain
Founder and CEO, Glean
Founder and CEO of Glean, the enterprise AI platform; earlier co-founded Rubrik and led teams at Google
Azita Martin
Leads the retail team, responsible for global go-to-market strategy, NVIDIA
Listed by NVIDIA in 2025 as VP and general manager for retail and consumer packaged goods
Ben Davis
Co-host, Nerd Snipe
Developer and YouTuber who co-hosts the Nerd Snipe podcast with Theo and writes about AI tools
Ben Tossell
Founder and writer, Ben's Bites
Writer of Ben's Bites, a newsletter for AI builders about building with agents and AI tools
Binyuan Hui
Staff Research Scientist, Qwen Team, Alibaba Group
Initiator of OpenDevin (now OpenHands); StarCoder2 co-author and first author of the Qwen2.5-Coder report
Boris Cherny
Software Engineer; creator and Head of Claude Code, Anthropic
Creator and Head of Claude Code at Anthropic; author of O'Reilly's Programming TypeScript
Bret Taylor
Co-founder, Sierra
Co-founder of Sierra, which builds customer-facing AI agents; former Salesforce co-CEO and Facebook CTO
Brian Schimpf
Co-founder and CEO, Anduril Industries
Co-founder and CEO of Anduril Industries, a defense technology company
Brooklyn Nicholson
Contributor, Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent contributor credited with desktop-app work, including its guided first-launch setup
Charles Lamanna
Executive Vice President, Copilot, Agents, and Platform, Microsoft
Executive Vice President, Copilot, Agents, and Platform at Microsoft
Clare Liguori
Senior Principal Software Engineer, AWS Agentic AI (at Amazon since 2014), Amazon Web Services
AWS Senior Principal Software Engineer on Kiro and Strands Agents; core maintainer of the MCP spec
Clay Bavor
Co-founder, Sierra
Co-founder of Sierra, which builds customer-facing AI agents; formerly led Google Labs
Dane Knecht
Chief Technology Officer, Cloudflare
Chief Technology Officer of Cloudflare; led Zero Trust, the Developer Platform and AI inference work
David Ha
Co-Founder & CEO, Sakana AI
Co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI; former Google research scientist and co-author of World Models
David Ondrej
Creator and host, David Ondrej
YouTube creator covering AI agents and AI tools; builder of the Vectal task manager
Denis Yarats
Co-founder and CTO, Perplexity
Co-founder and CTO of Perplexity; first author of DrQ-v2 for reinforcement learning from pixels
Francesca Rossi
IBM Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance; IBM Fellow, IBM Research
IBM Fellow and IBM Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance; past president of AAAI and IJCAI
Gabe Pereyra
President and co-founder, Harvey
President and co-founder of Harvey; co-author of the post introducing Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark
Graham Neubig
Associate Professor, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon associate professor and Chief Scientist at OpenHands; co-author of the OpenHands paper
Greg Kamradt
President and board member, ARC Prize Foundation
President and board member of the ARC Prize Foundation; author of the ARC-AGI-2 and ARC-AGI-3 launch posts
Hanlin Tang
CTO - Neural Networks, Databricks
CTO of Neural Networks at Databricks; co-founder and former CTO of MosaicML
Harrison Chase
Co-founder, LangChain
Started the open-source LangChain framework and co-founded LangChain, the company behind it
Hyung Won Chung
Research Scientist, OpenAI
Researcher on reasoning and agents, formerly at Google Brain; first author of the Flan-T5 scaling paper
Jack Dorsey
Block Head, Chairman and co-founder, Block
Block Head, Chairman and co-founder of Block, the company behind Square and Cash App
Jacob Andreou
EVP, Copilot, Microsoft
Executive Vice President, Copilot at Microsoft; former CVP of Product and Growth at Microsoft AI
Jakob Foerster
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Oxford associate professor and research scientist at FAIR (Meta); first author of COMA for multi-agent RL
James Braza
EECS PhD student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second author of FutureHouse's ether0 chemistry model and contributor to its open-source agent tooling
Jared Palmer
VP of Engineering, Cognition
VP of Engineering at Cognition; created Vercel's AI SDK and v0 while VP of AI at Vercel
Jason Wei
Works at Meta Superintelligence Labs, Meta Superintelligence Labs
AI researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs; first author of the chain-of-thought prompting paper
Jason Weston
Research Scientist, Meta
Research scientist at Meta; first author of Memory Networks and co-author of ParlAI and Self-Rewarding LMs
Jay Parikh
Executive Vice President, CoreAI, Microsoft
Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft; former global head of engineering at Facebook
Jeff Clune
Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia
UBC professor and Recursive co-founder; former OpenAI research manager and Senior Research Advisor to DeepMind
Jerry Liu
CEO and co-founder, LlamaIndex
Author of the open-source LlamaIndex framework; CEO and co-founder of LlamaIndex
Jesse Genet
Creator, Jesse Genet
Co-founder of Lumi (YC W15) who now makes short videos about running personal AI agents and local models
Jianfeng Gao
Technical Fellow & Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Microsoft Technical Fellow and CVP setting direction for AI models; co-founder of MSR's Deep Learning Group
Jiaxuan You
Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science; leads U Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
UIUC assistant professor who leads U Lab, the group that maintains the LLMRouter routing library
Jim Fan
Senior Research Scientist and Lead of the AI Agents Initiative; co-lead of the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group, with Yuke Zhu, NVIDIA
Co-leads NVIDIA's GEAR embodied-agents group; co-author of GR00T N1, Voyager and Eureka
Jim Zemlin
CEO (earlier announcements give the title as Executive Director), The Linux Foundation
CEO of the Linux Foundation, home of projects including Linux, Kubernetes, PyTorch and MCP
John Yang
Computer Science PhD student, Stanford University
Stanford PhD student; creator of SWE-bench and SWE-agent and senior author of the SWE-sweep benchmark
Joseph E. Gonzalez
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley professor whose group built Gorilla and the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard
Josh Albrecht
CTO and co-founder, Imbue
Co-founder and CTO of Imbue and first author of the Avalon reinforcement learning benchmark
Josh Woodward
VP, Google Labs, Gemini app & AI Studio, Google
Google VP leading Google Labs, the Gemini app and AI Studio
Junyang Lin
Independent researcher, Independent
Independent researcher on language models and agents; co-author of the OpenHands and Qwen3 papers
Kai Fronsdal
Research Engineer (joined 2026), Meridian Labs
Research engineer at Meridian Labs and lead author of Petri, the open-source alignment auditing tool
Kanjun Qiu
CEO and co-founder, Imbue
Co-founder and CEO of Imbue, which builds open tools for running and verifying AI coding agents
Kari Briski
VP, AI Software Product Management, NVIDIA
VP of AI software product management at NVIDIA; listed in the Nemotron 3 leadership credits
Katja Hofmann
Partner Research Manager, co-leading the People-Centric AI research area, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge who led the Muse (WHAM) gameplay model project
Kenneth Stanley
SVP of Open-Endedness, Lila Sciences
SVP of Open-Endedness at Lila Sciences; former Open-Endedness Team Leader at OpenAI and creator of NEAT
Kilian Lieret
AI Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs (joined February 2026), Meta
AI research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs; lead author of the SWE-sweep bug-fixing benchmark
Kristian Fagerlie
Creator, All About AI
Creator of the All About AI YouTube channel and blog on AI agents and Claude Code workflows
Lars Grammel
Works on the AI SDK; co-author of its release posts since 2024, Vercel
Works on Vercel's AI SDK; first author of the AI SDK 5 release post and co-author of later releases
Leandro von Werra
Machine learning engineer in the open-source team, Hugging Face
Machine learning at Hugging Face; first listed author of TRL and co-author of StarCoder2 and smolagents
Liam Ottley
Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Morningside AI
Co-CEO and co-founder of Morningside AI; YouTube creator on AI automation and AI businesses
Maarten Sap
Assistant Professor, Language Technologies Institute (courtesy appointment in HCII), Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon assistant professor and part-time senior research scientist at Ai2; co-author of SOTOPIA
Manik Surtani
CTO and Co-founder, Agentic AI Foundation
CTO and co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation; previously Head of Open Source at Block
maria
Contributor, T3 Code
Contributor to T3 Code, Ping.gg's open-source control app for coding agents
Mario Rodriguez
Chief Product Officer, GitHub
Chief Product Officer of GitHub, leading the GitHub Product team and its AI and Copilot strategy
May Habib
CEO and co-founder, WRITER
Co-founder and CEO of WRITER, which builds the Palmyra model family and an enterprise AI agent platform
Mazin Gilbert
Executive Director, Agentic AI Foundation
Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation at the Linux Foundation; IEEE Fellow
Michele Catasta
President (joined as VP of AI in 2023), Replit
President of Replit, where Catasta led the Replit Agent projects; former Google X applied research head
Mike Knoop
Co-founder and board member, ARC Prize Foundation
Co-founder and board member of the ARC Prize Foundation; co-founder of Zapier and of the lab Ndea
Nathan Labenz
Host, The Cognitive Revolution
Host of The Cognitive Revolution, a podcast of interviews and analysis about AI
Niko Grupen
Head of Applied Research (joined early 2023), Harvey
Head of Applied Research at Harvey; lead byline on the Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB) announcement
Noam Brown
Research Scientist, OpenAI
OpenAI research scientist working on reasoning; creator of Libratus and Pluribus; CICERO co-author
Olivier Chafik
Anthropic is the company listed on Chafik's GitHub profile, Anthropic
MCP TypeScript SDK maintainer; added Jinja chat templates and tool calling to llama.cpp
Omar Khattab
Assistant Professor (leads the MIT OASYS lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First author of DSPy and ColBERT; Assistant Professor at MIT EECS, where Khattab leads the OASYS lab
Peter Steinberger
Creator of OpenClaw and "Clawfather" of the foundation, continuing to steward the project, OpenClaw Foundation
Creator of OpenClaw, the open-source self-hosted AI assistant; works on agents at OpenAI
Peter Yang
Writer and podcast host, Behind the Craft
Writer of Behind the Craft, a newsletter and podcast of practical AI tutorials and interviews
Philipp Schmid
Staff Engineer (Developer Experience and Developer Relations), Google DeepMind
Staff Engineer for developer experience at Google DeepMind; former Technical Lead at Hugging Face
Pushmeet Kohli
Vice President, Google DeepMind
Vice President at Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Google Cloud; AlphaFold co-author
Robert Brennan
CEO, All Hands AI
CEO of OpenHands (All Hands AI), the open-source platform for coding agents
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
UPMC Professor of Computer Science, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
UPMC Professor of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department; co-author of dropout
Sabrina Ramonov
Founder, Blotato
Creator of free AI tutorials and a newsletter of AI prompts, agents, and automations; founder of Blotato
Sam Rodriques
CEO and co-founder, FutureHouse
CEO and co-founder of FutureHouse and Edison Scientific, building AI agents for scientific research
Saoud Rizwan
Founder, Cline
Founder of Cline, the open-source AI coding agent for editors, the terminal and an SDK
Scott Wu
Founder and CEO, Cognition
Founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind the Devin AI software engineer and Windsurf
Shawn Wang
Writer and podcast host, Latent Space
Writer and podcast host at Latent Space, a newsletter and podcast for AI engineers
Shimon Whiteson
Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Oxford professor of computer science and Research Director at Google DeepMind; works on multi-agent RL
Shunyu Yao
Researcher, OpenAI
First author of ReAct, Tree of Thoughts and the τ-bench agent benchmark; language-agent researcher
Siddharth Narayanan
Listed organization on GitHub profile, Edison Scientific
First author of FutureHouse's ether0 chemistry reasoning model and the Aviary language-agent framework
Simon Suo
Co-founder, LlamaIndex
Co-founder of LlamaIndex; former research scientist at Uber ATG working on self-driving
Stefano Soatto
Vice president and distinguished scientist, AWS Agentic AI, Amazon Web Services
Vice president and distinguished scientist in AWS Agentic AI; UCLA professor of computer science
Swami Sivasubramanian
Vice President of Agentic AI, AWS, Amazon Web Services
Vice President of Agentic AI at AWS; co-author of Amazon's 2007 Dynamo paper
Teknium
Co-founder, Nous Research
Co-founder of Nous Research and first-listed author of the Hermes 3 and Hermes 4 technical reports
Thomas Kurian
CEO, Google Cloud, Google Cloud
CEO of Google Cloud, which offers Gemini Enterprise and Google's agent platform to businesses
Thomas Scialom
Listed with GenAI, Meta on 2023 papers and with Meta Superintelligence Labs on a 2025 paper and a February 2026 paper (Gaia2), Meta
Corresponding author of Meta's Llama 2 paper; a lead author of the ARE agent platform and Gaia2 benchmark
Tina Huang
Founder and CEO, Lonely Octopus
YouTube creator on AI and coding, and founder and CEO of the AI education company Lonely Octopus
Vasi Philomin
Executive Vice President and Head of Data and AI, Siemens
Executive Vice President and Head of Data and AI at Siemens; former AWS Vice President of Generative AI
Winston Weinberg
CEO and co-founder, Harvey
Co-founder and CEO of Harvey, which builds AI tools and agents for law firms and legal teams
X Freeze
Engineer, writer and researcher, X Freeze
Writer on X (@XFreeze) explaining AI, space and engineering, and maker of free Grok bot templates
Xingyao Wang
Co-founder and Chief AI Officer, All Hands AI
Co-founder and Chief AI Officer of All Hands AI; first author of the OpenHands and CodeAct papers
Yoav Shoham
Chairman & Co-Founder, AI21 Labs
Co-founder and chairman of AI21 Labs; professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford
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