People
People in datasets and data
96 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list datasets and data as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
Abhimanyu Das
Principal Research Scientist, heading work on predictive models for structured data, Google
Google Principal Research Scientist leading structured-data models such as TimesFM; TimesFM paper first author
Adina Williams
Research Scientist, Meta
Research scientist at Meta's FAIR; first author of the MultiNLI corpus and co-author of Llama 2
Albert Jiang
Research scientist (since June 2023), Mistral AI
Research scientist at Mistral AI; first author of the Mistral 7B and Mixtral of Experts papers
Alex Freberg
Host, Alex The Analyst
Host of Alex The Analyst, a YouTube channel teaching data analytics, who runs Analyst Builder
Alexander Karp
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, Palantir Technologies
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Palantir Technologies since 2005
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
Alexander Wettig
Researcher working on RL for the Composer models, Cursor
Researcher at Cursor; contributor to Ai2's OLMoE and co-author of SWE-bench
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-Founder, Databricks
Co-founder and CEO of Databricks; one of the creators of Apache Spark and co-author of the Mesos paper
Andriy Mulyar
CEO, Nomic AI
CEO of Nomic and co-author of the GPT4All and Nomic Embed technical reports
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
Anton Lozhkov
Machine Learning Engineer, Hugging Face
Machine learning engineer at Hugging Face; first author of StarCoder 2 and co-author of FineWeb and SmolLM2
Anton Troynikov
Co-founder, Chroma
Co-founder of Chroma; co-author of Chroma technical reports on retrieval and context
Aran Komatsuzaki
Intern (2022), Google Research
Co-author of the GPT-J-6B open model; first author of the Sparse Upcycling paper from Google Research
Armand Joulin
Gemma Team (lead on the Gemma 2 and Gemma 3 reports; core contributor on the July 2026 Gemma 4 report), Google DeepMind
Lead of the Gemma 2 and Gemma 3 reports at Google DeepMind; co-author of Meta's LLaMA and the fastText papers
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Co-founder & SVP of Field Engineering, Databricks
Co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering at Databricks
Arvind Krishna
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM
Chairman, President and CEO of IBM; earlier led IBM Research and IBM's Cloud and Cognitive Software unit
Ashish Vaswani
CEO, Essential AI
CEO of Essential AI, maker of the open Rnj-1 models; first-listed author of the Transformer paper
Avi Sil
IBM researcher specializing in natural language processing (IBM Research blog, July 2022), IBM Research
NLP researcher; first author of IBM's open-source PrimeQA toolkit and co-author of Granite Embedding
Benoit Dageville
Co-founder, board member and strategic advisor, Snowflake
Co-founder of Snowflake, board member and strategic advisor; former President of Products
Bill Dolan
Partner Researcher Manager, managing the Natural Language Processing group (as described in 2022), Microsoft Research
Managed Microsoft Research's NLP group; co-author of DialoGPT and the Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus
Brandon Duderstadt
Founder, Calcifer Computing
Nomic co-founder and co-author of the GPT4All and Nomic Embed technical reports
Cassie Kozyrkov
CEO, Kozyr
CEO of Kozyr and author of the Decision Intelligence newsletter on AI and data-driven decisions
Ce Zhang
Founder & CTO, Together AI
Founder and CTO of Together AI; Neubauer Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Chicago
Chang She
Founder, LanceDB
Founder of LanceDB, an open-source vector database built on the Lance format; early pandas co-author
Christopher Ré
Professor, Department of Computer Science (Stanford AI Lab, CRFM, Machine Learning Group), Stanford University
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of FlashAttention, Hyena and RedPajama; Together AI founder
Connor Leahy
Co-founder (2020), EleutherAI
Co-founder of EleutherAI and Conjecture; co-author of The Pile and the GPT-NeoX-20B paper
Dan Su
Research scientist (large language model pretraining), NVIDIA
NVIDIA research scientist working on LLM pretraining; co-lead author of the Nemotron-CC dataset paper
Deb Gracio
Director (since October 1, 2025), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory since October 2025; computational and data science leader
Emily M. Bender
Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director, Computational Linguistics Laboratory, University of Washington
University of Washington linguistics professor; developer of the LinGO Grammar Matrix and data statements
Eugene Yan
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; former Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon
Fartash Faghri
Machine learning researcher, Apple Machine Learning Research, Apple
Machine learning researcher at Apple Machine Learning Research; co-author of FastVLM and MobileCLIP
Fei-Fei Li
Co-founder/CEO, World Labs
Co-founder and CEO of World Labs, Stanford Sequoia Professor, and principal investigator of ImageNet
Francis deSouza
Chief Executive Officer (effective August 10, 2026), Scale AI
Chief Executive Officer of Scale AI since August 2026; previously Google Cloud COO and Illumina CEO
George Halal
Machine learning software engineer, Google
Co-author of Contextual AI's open Reranker v2 models; machine learning software engineer at Google
Gil Elbaz
Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Common Crawl
Founder and Chairman of the Board of Common Crawl; co-founder of Applied Semantics
Graham Taylor
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning, University of Guelph
University of Guelph professor and Vector Institute faculty member building deep learning for biodiversity
Greg Lindahl
Chief Technology Officer, Common Crawl
Chief Technology Officer of the Common Crawl Foundation, which publishes an open web crawl archive
Guilherme Penedo
Machine Learning Research Engineer, Hugging Face
Machine Learning Research Engineer at Hugging Face; first author of FineWeb, FineWeb2 and RefinedWeb
Henrique Schechter Vera
Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind research engineer; first author of the EmbeddingGemma paper
Hynek Kydlíček
ML Engineer, Hugging Face
ML engineer at Hugging Face; second author of the FineWeb and FineWeb2 dataset papers
Jaime Sevilla
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (director and co-founder since 2022), Epoch AI
Co-founder and CEO of Epoch AI; first author of "Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning"
Jeff Huber
Founder, Chroma
Founder of Chroma, the open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications
Jerry Liu
CEO and co-founder, LlamaIndex
Author of the open-source LlamaIndex framework; CEO and co-founder of LlamaIndex
Jesse Dodge
Research scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Research scientist in Meta Superintelligence Labs; former OLMo evaluation lead at Ai2
John X. Morris
Part-time student researcher, Meta
AI researcher (Jack Morris) and second author of the Nomic Embed technical report; creator of TextAttack
Jong Youl Choi
Researcher, Discrete Algorithms Group, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a developer of the HydraGNN graph neural network library
Ken Jee
Creator, Ken Jee
Data scientist and creator of videos, a podcast, and a newsletter about data science and AI
Kezhi Kong
Research scientist, foundation model team, Applied Deep Learning Research (ADLR), NVIDIA
NVIDIA research scientist on the ADLR foundation model team; co-first author of Nemotron-CC
Krish Naik
Founder, KrishAI Technologies Private Limited
AI and data science educator; YouTube creator and founder of KrishAI Technologies
Kyle Lo
Research scientist; co-lead of the OLMo project, Ai2
Former Ai2 research scientist who co-led the OLMo project; last-listed author of the Dolma paper
Leo Gao
Lead author of The Pile (2020), published with an EleutherAI affiliation, EleutherAI
First author of The Pile and first-listed author of EleutherAI's LM Evaluation Harness
Loubna Ben Allal
Research Engineer, Hugging Face
Research Engineer at Hugging Face leading the SmolLM series of small open language models
Luca Soldaini
Member of the technical staff, Microsoft AI
Former co-lead of Ai2's Olmo open-model project; now a member of the technical staff at Microsoft AI
Lukas Biewald
General Manager and Co-founder, Weights & Biases
Co-founder and General Manager of Weights & Biases (part of CoreWeave); founder of CrowdFlower/Figure Eight
Luke Barousse
Creator and course instructor, Luke Barousse
Data analyst and YouTuber who makes tutorials and courses on SQL, Python, Excel, and Power BI
Manuvir Das
Operating Partner, Digital Infrastructure group, Stonepeak Partners
Stonepeak operating partner; as NVIDIA's Head of Enterprise Computing, launched NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Marina Danilevsky
Senior Research Scientist, Manager - core language and conversational technologies, IBM Research
Senior Research Scientist and manager at IBM Research; co-author of the MTRAG multi-turn RAG benchmark
Matei Zaharia
Associate Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Started Apache Spark, helped develop MLflow and co-authored DSPy; UC Berkeley professor and Databricks CTO
Matt Deitke
AI researcher, leading a data pod, Meta
AI researcher at Meta; co-first author of Molmo and first author of ProcTHOR and Objaverse
Matt Turck
Partner, FirstMark
Host of The MAD Podcast and author of the annual MAD (machine learning, AI, and data) Landscape
Matthijs Douze
Research Scientist, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), since November 2015, Meta
Research scientist at Meta FAIR; implemented most of the CPU side of the Faiss similarity search library
Nikhil Thorat
Named in Thorat's GitHub profile bio (role not stated), Anthropic
Co-creator of TensorFlow.js at Google Brain and co-founder of Lilac AI; now at Anthropic
Oren Etzioni
Adviser and board member, Ai2
Founding CEO of Ai2 (2013–2022) and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington
Patrick Wendell
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Databricks
Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Databricks, heading its AI efforts; Apache Spark committer
Peter Staar
Chairperson, Technical Advisory Council, LF AI & Data Foundation
IBM Research manager and Docling technical lead; chairs the LF AI & Data Technical Advisory Council
Piotr Dollár
Research Director, FAIR, Meta
Research director at Meta's FAIR; co-author of Segment Anything, COCO and Mask R-CNN; SAM 3 project lead
Pradeep Dasigi
Lead Research Scientist, Olmo team, Allen Institute for AI
Lead Research Scientist on the Olmo team at Ai2; credited with technical leadership on Olmo 3
Rajeev Rastogi
Vice President, Machine Learning at Amazon India, Amazon
Vice President, Machine Learning at Amazon India; previously vice president at Yahoo Labs
Rangan Majumder
Vice President of Search and Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft
Vice President of Search and AI at Microsoft; co-author of the MS MARCO reading comprehension dataset paper
Ranit Aharonov
Co-leader of the Project Debater team, listed with IBM Research AI on the 2021 Nature paper and with IBM Research on the 2022 Label Sleuth paper, IBM Research
Co-led IBM Research's Project Debater team and co-wrote its 2021 Nature paper
Reynold Xin
Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Databricks
Co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks; Apache Spark committer and first author of Shark and GraphX
Rich Skrenta
Executive Director (since 2023), Common Crawl
Executive Director of the Common Crawl Foundation; creator of the blekko search engine
Rohan Taori
Researcher on the pretraining team, Anthropic
Pretraining researcher at Anthropic; co-author of Stanford Alpaca, AlpacaFarm and AlpacaEval
Ronen Eldan
Listed with an OpenAI affiliation on the November 2025 paper "Early science acceleration experiments with GPT-5", OpenAI
First author of TinyStories and co-author of Microsoft's Phi small language model reports
Ruchir Puri
Chief Scientist, IBM Research; IBM Fellow; Vice President, IBM Technology & Technical Community, IBM Research
Chief Scientist of IBM Research and IBM Fellow; first author of the Project CodeNet dataset paper
Sara Hooker
Co-founder and CEO, Adaption
Co-founder and CEO of Adaption; author of The Hardware Lottery and last author of the Aya model paper
Sasha Luccioni
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Sustainable AI Group
AI and climate researcher; co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Sustainable AI Group
Sheshansh Agrawal
Director of Research, Contextual AI
Director of Research at Contextual AI; co-author of the open Contextual AI Reranker v2 models
Shreya Shankar
Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department (from July 2026); Assistant Professor from July 2027, Carnegie Mellon University
Computer science researcher who built DocETL at UC Berkeley; incoming Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon
Shyam Sankar
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Palantir Technologies
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Palantir Technologies, with the company since 2006
Simon Suo
Co-founder, LlamaIndex
Co-founder of LlamaIndex; former research scientist at Uber ATG working on self-driving
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, Snowflake
Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake since February 2024; co-founder of Neeva
Sriram Raghavan
General Manager, IBM Software, India and Software Innovation Lab, IBM
GM of IBM Software, India and Software Innovation Lab; formerly vice president for AI at IBM Research
Stephen Cohen
Co-Founder, President, Secretary, and Director, Palantir Technologies
Co-founder, President and Secretary of Palantir Technologies, and a director since 2005
Steven Huels
Vice President of AI Engineering, Red Hat
Vice President of AI Engineering at Red Hat; a founder of Open Data Hub, which became Red Hat OpenShift AI
Swabha Swayamdipta
Gabilan Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi Computer Science; Associate Director, USC Center for AI and Society, University of Southern California
USC Gabilan Assistant Professor and Amazon Scholar; first author of Dataset Cartography
T.R. Vishwanath
Co-founder and CTO; Technical Infrastructure Lead, Glean
Co-founder and CTO of Glean, overseeing integrations with enterprise data sources
Thierry Cruanes
Co-founder, overseeing technology vision, Snowflake
Co-founder of Snowflake who oversees its technology vision; formerly led query optimization work at Oracle
Timnit Gebru
Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute
Founder and executive director of DAIR; first author of Datasheets for Datasets
Tsung-Yi Lin
Principal research scientist, NVIDIA Research, NVIDIA
Principal research scientist at NVIDIA Research; led the creation of the COCO dataset; Cosmos co-author
Vaishaal Shankar
Listed with Apple as a shared last author of the DataComp-LM paper (2024), Apple
Machine learning researcher; shared last author of DataComp-LM at Apple and a co-lead of OpenCLIP
Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com, Amazon
Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com; co-author of the 2007 Dynamo paper
Yacine Jernite
Leads the ML and Society team, Hugging Face
Leads the ML and Society team at Hugging Face; co-author of the Transformers and StarCoder2 papers
Yuanzhi Li
Listed with a Microsoft Research affiliation on the 2023 TinyStories paper, Microsoft Research
First author of the phi-1.5 report and co-author of TinyStories and Microsoft's other Phi model reports
Zach Nussbaum
Principal machine learning engineer, leading development of Nomic Embed, Nomic AI
Principal machine learning engineer at Nomic AI who leads development of the Nomic Embed models
Zico Kolter
Professor and Department Head, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department; chairs OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee
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