People
People in teaching and writing
153 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list teaching and writing as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
Abigail See
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind; first author of the pointer-generator summarization paper
Aeree Cho
Machine learning PhD student in the Polo Club of Data Science (since fall 2024), Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech machine learning PhD student and lead author of the open-source Transformer Explainer
AI Explained
Creator, AI Explained
YouTube channel, podcast, and newsletter covering the arrival of smarter-than-human AI
Alessio Fanelli
Podcast co-host, Latent Space
Co-host of the Latent Space podcast for AI engineers and a partner at Decibel
Alex Finn
Instructor, Vibe Coding Academy
YouTube creator teaching AI-assisted coding with Claude Code and Codex; teaches Vibe Coding Academy
Alex Freberg
Host, Alex The Analyst
Host of Alex The Analyst, a YouTube channel teaching data analytics, who runs Analyst Builder
Alex Kantrowitz
Founder and writer, Big Technology
Independent journalist who writes Big Technology, a newsletter about the tech giants and how tech works
Alex Smola
CEO and Co-Founder, Boson AI
Co-founder and CEO of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; former VP at AWS
Alexander Amini
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Liquid AI
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Liquid AI; lead organizer of MIT 6.S191 Intro to Deep Learning
Allie K. Miller
Author, AI with ALLIE
AI business advisor and educator who writes the AI with ALLIE newsletter and teaches AI courses
Andreas C. Müller
Principal Research SDE, Gray Systems Lab, Microsoft
Core developer and co-maintainer of scikit-learn; Principal Research SDE at Microsoft
Andrej Karpathy
Research scientist and founding member (2015–2017); later built a team working on midtraining and synthetic data generation (2023–2024), OpenAI
Wrote llama2.c, a dependency-free C program for running Llama 2 models on a personal computer
Andrew Ng
Founder, DeepLearning.AI
Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Stanford adjunct professor, and founding lead of the Google Brain team
Antje Barth
Member of Technical Staff — AI Product & Developer Experience, Amazon AGI
Member of Technical Staff at Amazon AGI; co-author of Generative AI on AWS and Data Science on AWS
argo
Maker, Fowl Labs
Maker of Fowl Labs Mac apps and NameThatUI, a visual dictionary of user interface terms
Austin Evans
Host, Austin Evans
Host of the Austin Evans YouTube channel on gaming PCs, smartphones and gadgets
Azeem Azhar
Founder, Exponential View
Founder of Exponential View, a weekly newsletter and podcast analyzing AI and other technologies
Becca Farsace
Creator, Becca Farsace
YouTube creator making tech videos, formerly a senior video producer at The Verge
Ben Davis
Co-host, Nerd Snipe
Developer and YouTuber who co-hosts the Nerd Snipe podcast with Theo and writes about AI tools
Ben Thompson
Author, Stratechery
Author of Stratechery, analysis of the strategy and business of technology and media
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
Benedict Evans
Independent analyst, Benedict Evans
Independent technology analyst writing essays and a weekly newsletter on what matters in tech
Bilawal Sidhu
Technology curator and host, TED
Tech creator covering AI, AR/VR, and robotics; technology curator and host for TED
Brian Merchant
Writer, Blood in the Machine
Tech journalist who writes the Blood in the Machine newsletter on AI, tech, and labor
Cade Metz
Technology reporter, The New York Times
Technology reporter at The New York Times and author of Genius Makers, a book about AI
Casey Newton
Founder and editor, Platformer
Founder and editor of Platformer, an independent publication about AI and social platforms
Cassie Kozyrkov
CEO, Kozyr
CEO of Kozyr and author of the Decision Intelligence newsletter on AI and data-driven decisions
Chip Huyen
ML tooling; core developer of NeMo, NVIDIA
Writer on AI system design; former NeMo core developer at NVIDIA and Stanford ML systems instructor
Christopher Bishop
Technical Fellow and founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science, Microsoft Research
Microsoft Technical Fellow, founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science, and machine learning textbook author
Christopher Manning
Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science, Stanford University
Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science; co-author of GloVe and the Stanza NLP library
Chuck Keith
Creator and host, NetworkChuck
Creator of NetworkChuck, a YouTube channel and academy teaching IT, networking, and security skills
Cleo Abram
Video journalist and producer, Huge If True
Video journalist who produces Huge If True, an optimistic show about science and technology
Dan Jurafsky
Reynolds Professor in Humanities; Professor of Linguistics; Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science; co-author of Speech and Language Processing
Dan Shipper
CEO and cofounder, Every
CEO and cofounder of Every, writer of the AI column Chain of Thought and host of The Every Podcast
Daniel Bourke
Member of Technical Staff, Artificial Analysis
Machine learning teacher and YouTube creator; Member of Technical Staff at Artificial Analysis
Daphne Koller
Founder & CEO, Board Member, insitro
Founder and CEO of insitro, Coursera co-founder, and Stanford adjunct professor of computer science
David Ondrej
Creator and host, David Ondrej
YouTube creator covering AI agents and AI tools; builder of the Vectal task manager
David Pierce
Editor-at-large, The Verge
Editor-at-large at The Verge, writing about consumer tech and appearing on The Vergecast
David Silver
CEO, Ineffable Intelligence
CEO of Ineffable Intelligence and UCL professor; formerly led DeepMind's reinforcement learning team
Deirdre Bosa
Host, Deirdre Bosa Live
Business journalist and host of Deirdre Bosa Live, a new Yahoo Finance show about AI and technology
Denny Britz
Listed with a Google Brain affiliation on the 2017 NMT architecture paper, Google Brain
First-listed author of a 2017 Google Brain study of NMT architectures; contributor to its TensorFlow framework
Duen Horng "Polo" Chau
Professor and Associate Chair, School of Computational Science and Engineering; Associate Director, MS in Analytics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech professor whose Polo Club of Data Science created Transformer Explainer and CNN Explainer
Dwarkesh Patel
Host, Dwarkesh Podcast
Host of Dwarkesh Podcast and author of The Scaling Era, an oral history of AI from 2019 to 2025
Ed Zitron
Writer, Where's Your Ed At
Writer of the Where's Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast about tech
Elad Gil
Co-host, No Priors
Investor and co-host of No Priors, a podcast about AI, machine learning, tech, and startups
Emily Chang
Host and executive producer, The Circuit with Emily Chang and Posthuman, Bloomberg
Host and executive producer of The Circuit with Emily Chang and Posthuman at Bloomberg
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
Emily Webber
Principal machine learning specialist solutions architect, AWS Trainium team, Amazon Web Services
Principal ML specialist solutions architect on the AWS Trainium team at Annapurna Labs; author
Ethan Mollick
Associate Professor of Management; Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Wharton professor who writes One Useful Thing, a newsletter on the implications of AI
Gergely Orosz
Writer, The Pragmatic Engineer
Writer of The Pragmatic Engineer, a newsletter and podcast about software engineering at tech companies
Grant Sanderson
Author and math educator, 3Blue1Brown
Math educator behind 3Blue1Brown, a YouTube channel explaining math visually, and the Manim engine
Greg Isenberg
CEO, Late Checkout
Host of The Startup Ideas Podcast and a YouTube channel on startup ideas and building with AI
Hamel Husain
ML engineer and independent consultant, Parlance Labs
ML engineer and consultant at Parlance Labs; earlier applied ML at GitHub and first author of CodeSearchNet
Hannah Fry
Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics (DAMTP, since January 2025), University of Cambridge
Mathematician and science presenter who hosts Google DeepMind's podcast about AI
Harrison Kinsley
Creator, sentdex
Creator of sentdex, a YouTube channel of Python and machine-learning tutorials
Ian Goodfellow
Principal Scientist (as listed in 2023), Google DeepMind
First author of the Generative Adversarial Networks paper and co-author of the Deep Learning textbook
James E. Davis
President, The University of Texas at Austin
President of The University of Texas at Austin; previously its Senior Vice President and COO
James McCaffrey
Microsoft Research staff (per the August 2019 MSDN Magazine author bio), Microsoft Research
Software engineer and longtime MSDN Magazine Test Run columnist; worked for Microsoft Research
Jason Koebler
Co-founder, 404 Media
Co-founder of 404 Media, a journalist-founded publication about technology
Jay Alammar
Director and Engineering Fellow, Cohere
Writer of illustrated machine learning guides and co-author of Hands-On Large Language Models
Jeff Barr
VP and Chief Evangelist, AWS, Amazon Web Services
VP and Chief Evangelist at AWS; started the AWS News Blog in 2004
Jeff Delaney
Creator, Fireship
Creator of Fireship, a YouTube channel of fast-paced code tutorials and tech news for developers
Jeff Geerling
Owner/President, Midwestern Mac, LLC
Developer, author, and YouTube creator covering Linux, Raspberry Pi, Ansible, and open-source infrastructure
Jeff Su
Creator and educator, Jeff Su
Creator of videos, courses, and a weekly AI tips newsletter on AI and productivity tools
Jeremy Howard
Co-founder (with Eric Ries); CEO / R&D, Answer.AI
Co-founder of Answer.AI, which released FSDP/QLoRA for fine-tuning large models on gaming GPUs
Jesse Genet
Creator, Jesse Genet
Co-founder of Lumi (YC W15) who now makes short videos about running personal AI agents and local models
Joanna Stern
Founder, New Things
Technology journalist behind The New Things newsletter and videos; author of I Am Not a Robot
John Gruber
Writer and producer, Daring Fireball
Writer and producer of Daring Fireball and host of The Talk Show podcast
Jordan Harrod
Creator and host, Jordan Harrod
AI educator who makes YouTube explainers and essays about how AI works, and advises organizations on AI
Josh Gordon
Developer Advocate for TensorFlow, Google
Wrote the TensorFlow Hub launch post as Developer Advocate for TensorFlow, and later TensorFlow release posts
Josh Starmer
Creator, StatQuest
Creator of StatQuest, videos and illustrated books explaining statistics, machine learning, and AI
Julien Simon
AI Operating Partner, Fortino Capital
AI Operating Partner at Fortino Capital; former Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face and Arcee AI
Justine Ezarik
Host, Tech Creator, iJustine
Tech creator and host who publishes as iJustine on YouTube and co-hosts the Same Brain podcast
Kara Swisher
Editor-at-large, New York Magazine
Journalist and host of On with Kara Swisher, and co-host of the Pivot podcast
Karen Hao
Reporter and author, Freelance journalist
Reporter covering artificial intelligence and author of Empire of AI
Károly Zsolnai-Fehér
Creator and host, Two Minute Papers
Creator of Two Minute Papers, a video series sharing new research, including AI research
Ken Jee
Creator, Ken Jee
Data scientist and creator of videos, a podcast, and a newsletter about data science and AI
Kent C. Dodds
Full-time educator, kentcdodds.com
Full-time software educator behind Epic Web, Epic React, Epic AI and Testing JavaScript courses
Kevin Kelly
Senior Maverick (co-founder; executive editor for its first seven years), Wired
Wired co-founder and Senior Maverick, author of books on the future of technology, Cool Tools founder
Kevin Roose
Contributing writer, The Atlantic
Journalist covering AI, co-host of the Machine Gods podcast and author of The AGI Chronicles
Kevin Stratvert
Creator, Kevin Stratvert
Creator of step-by-step tutorials on AI tools, Microsoft 365, Windows, and other software
Kim Isenberg
Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, Superintelligence
Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Superintelligence, a daily AI newsletter, podcast and video channel
Krish Naik
Founder, KrishAI Technologies Private Limited
AI and data science educator; YouTube creator and founder of KrishAI Technologies
Kristian Fagerlie
Creator, All About AI
Creator of the All About AI YouTube channel and blog on AI agents and Claude Code workflows
Kylie Robison
Writer and host, Core Memory
Writer and host at Core Memory reporting on technology; formerly a WIRED senior correspondent on AI
Laurence Moroney
Director of AI, Arm
Director of AI at Arm; author and educator who led AI Advocacy at Google
Lenny Rachitsky
Author and publisher, Lenny's Newsletter
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, on building and growing tech products
Lex Fridman
Host, Lex Fridman Podcast
Host of the Lex Fridman Podcast, long-form conversations including AI, robotics and programming
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
Lila Ibrahim
Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind
Chief AI Readiness Officer at Google DeepMind; the lab's first Chief Operating Officer
Lilian Weng
Author, Lil'Log
Author of Lil'Log, a blog of long-form learning notes on machine learning research
Linus Sebastian
Co-host of The WAN Show, Linus Media Group
Co-host of The WAN Show, Linus Media Group's weekly tech news and analysis podcast
Logan Kilpatrick
Works on Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, enabling developers to build with Gemini, Google DeepMind
Works on helping developers build with Gemini at Google DeepMind; co-host of Around the Prompt
Luke Barousse
Creator and course instructor, Luke Barousse
Data analyst and YouTuber who makes tutorials and courses on SQL, Python, Excel, and Power BI
Mark Gurman
Managing editor for Global Consumer Technology and chief correspondent on Apple, Bloomberg
Bloomberg managing editor for Global Consumer Technology; writes Power On and hosts its podcast
Marques Brownlee
Creator and host, MKBHD
Creator of the MKBHD YouTube channel and co-host of the Waveform tech podcast
Matt Turck
Partner, FirstMark
Host of The MAD Podcast and author of the annual MAD (machine learning, AI, and data) Landscape
Matt Wolfe
Creator, Future Tools
Creator of Future Tools and host of The Next Wave Podcast, covering AI news and tools
Matthew Berman
Founder, Forward Future
Founder of Forward Future, an AI media company with a YouTube channel, daily newsletter, and live show
Maxime Labonne
Head of Post-Training, Liquid AI
Head of Post-Training at Liquid AI; author of the LLM Course and its quantization tutorials
Maxwell Zeff
Senior writer, WIRED
Senior writer at WIRED covering the business of artificial intelligence
Mesh Times
Creator, meshtimes
Creative technologist behind meshtimes, a YouTube channel and Substack newsletter on design and technology
Michael Fisher
Creator and reviewer, MrMobile
Creator of MrMobile, a YouTube channel of mobile technology reviews
Mike Isaac
Technology reporter, The New York Times
Reports on technology for The New York Times; author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Molly White
Writer and publisher, Citation Needed
Researcher and writer of Citation Needed, an independent newsletter on crypto, technology and tech policy
Mu Li
Co-Founder & CEO / CTO, Boson AI
Co-founder of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; led an AWS team working on Apache MXNet
Nathan Benaich
Founder and General Partner, Air Street Capital
Co-author of the annual State of AI Report and founder of Air Street Capital
Nathan Labenz
Host, The Cognitive Revolution
Host of The Cognitive Revolution, a podcast of interviews and analysis about AI
Nathan Lambert
Co-founder and Executive Director, Trillium Labs
Co-founder of Trillium Labs; first author of the Tülu 3 report and former post-training lead at Ai2
Nilay Patel
Co-founder and editor-in-chief, The Verge
Co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder and co-host of The Vergecast
Om Malik
Writer, On my Om
Writer of On my Om, a site about technology and change, and founder of GigaOm
Packy McCormick
Writer, Not Boring
Writer of Not Boring, a newsletter of in-depth analyses of technology and startups
Paul Graham
Essayist, paulgraham.com
Programmer and essayist at paulgraham.com, author of Lisp books, co-founder of Viaweb and Y Combinator
Percy Liang
Professor of Computer Science (and courtesy in Statistics); Director, Center for Research on Foundation Models, Stanford University
Stanford professor and director of CRFM; creator of Marin, first author of HELM, Together AI founder
Peter Yang
Writer and podcast host, Behind the Craft
Writer of Behind the Craft, a newsletter and podcast of practical AI tutorials and interviews
Phillip Isola
Associate Professor in EECS; member of CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT associate professor in EECS; first author of pix2pix and co-author of Foundations of Computer Vision
Quinn Nelson
Leads the channel and studio, Snazzy Labs Media
Leads Snazzy Labs, an independent technology video channel about Apple, smart homes, and networking
Rachel Thomas
Professor of Practice, Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Data Science
Writer on AI, science, education, and ethics; co-founder of fast.ai and QUT professor of practice
Richard Sutton
Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science, University of Alberta
University of Alberta professor of computing science; co-founded Google DeepMind Alberta in 2017
Robert Tibshirani
Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Statistics, Stanford University
Stanford statistician; co-author of glmnet, Least Angle Regression and The Elements of Statistical Learning
Rowan Cheung
Founder, The Rundown AI
Founder of The Rundown, an AI newsletter, and host of the Rowan's Notes podcast
Sabrina Ramonov
Founder, Blotato
Creator of free AI tutorials and a newsletter of AI prompts, agents, and automations; founder of Blotato
Sam Charrington
Host of the TWIML AI Podcast, TWIML
Host of the TWIML AI Podcast, which features conversations on machine learning and AI
Sara Dietschy
Creator, Sara Dietschy
YouTube creator making tech reviews and docu-series about technology and creativity
Sarah Guo
Co-host, No Priors
Co-host of No Priors, a podcast about AI, and founder of the venture firm Conviction
Sasha Rush
ML Researcher (Composer series of models), Cursor
ML researcher; former Cornell and Harvard professor and former Cursor and Hugging Face researcher
Scott Hanselman
VP and Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft and GitHub
Programmer, teacher, and podcaster; host of Hanselminutes and VP at Microsoft and GitHub
Scott Tolinski
Co-host, Syntax
Co-host of the Syntax web development podcast and creator of Level Up Tutorials
Sebastian Raschka
Senior engineer, Lightning AI
LLM research engineer and author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch); formerly at Lightning AI
Shawn Wang
Writer and podcast host, Latent Space
Writer and podcast host at Latent Space, a newsletter and podcast for AI engineers
Simon Willison
Author, Simon Willison's Weblog
Writer of Simon Willison's Weblog on LLMs and software, creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django
Steven Levy
Editor at Large, WIRED
WIRED editor at large who writes the Backchannel newsletter and books about technology
Stuart Russell
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Computational Precision Health, Emeritus; Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science; co-author of AI, A Modern Approach
Sylvain Gugger
Research Engineer and one of the core maintainers of the Transformers library, Hugging Face
Former core maintainer of Hugging Face Transformers and co-author of Deep Learning for Coders
Tatsunori Hashimoto
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Stanford assistant professor; advisor on Stanford Alpaca, HELM co-author, and CS336 instructor
Taylor Lorenz
Founder and writer, User Mag
Technology journalist and founder of User Mag, a publication about tech and online culture
ThePrimeagen
Creator, ThePrimeagen
Software video creator and course teacher focused on Vim, Rust, and TypeScript
Tina Huang
Founder and CEO, Lonely Octopus
YouTube creator on AI and coding, and founder and CEO of the AI education company Lonely Octopus
Tomasz Tunguz
General Partner and founder, Theory Ventures
General Partner at Theory Ventures who writes a daily blog on AI, SaaS metrics, and venture capital
Trevor Hastie
The John A. Overdeck Professor, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Emeritus, Stanford University
Maintainer of the glmnet package and co-author of The Elements of Statistical Learning; Stanford emeritus
Wes Bos
Co-host, Syntax
Web development educator who co-hosts the Syntax podcast and makes JavaScript courses
Wes Roth
Creator, Wes Roth
Creator of the Wes Roth YouTube channel, which covers AI news and its implications
Will Knight
Senior Writer, WIRED
Senior writer at WIRED covering artificial intelligence and author of the AI Lab newsletter
X Freeze
Engineer, writer and researcher, X Freeze
Writer on X (@XFreeze) explaining AI, space and engineering, and maker of free Grok bot templates
Yannic Kilcher
Creator and host, Yannic Kilcher
Machine learning researcher who makes YouTube videos analyzing AI research papers and ML news
Zack Nelson
Creator and host, JerryRigEverything
Creator of JerryRigEverything, a YouTube channel of smartphone durability tests, teardowns, and repairs
Zain Kahn
Newsletter author, Superhuman AI
Writer of Superhuman AI, a daily newsletter of AI news, tools, and tutorials for work
Zvi Mowshowitz
Writer, Don't Worry About the Vase
Writer of Don't Worry About the Vase, a Substack centered on weekly AI updates
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