People
People in language models
276 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list language models 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
Adina Williams
Research Scientist, Meta
Research scientist at Meta's FAIR; first author of the MultiNLI corpus and co-author of Llama 2
Ahmad Al-Dahle
Chief Technology Officer, Airbnb
Chief Technology Officer at Airbnb; founded Meta's Generative AI group and led the team behind Llama
AI Explained
Creator, AI Explained
YouTube channel, podcast, and newsletter covering the arrival of smarter-than-human AI
Aidan Gomez
Co-founder and CEO, Cohere
Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of the Transformer paper, written while at Google Brain
Akshita Bhagia
Senior Research Engineer, AllenNLP team, Ai2
Senior Research Engineer at Ai2 working on the OLMo and FlexOlmo open language models
Albert Gu
Assistant Professor, Machine Learning Department; leads the Goomba Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Co-author of Mamba and first author of S4; CMU assistant professor and Cartesia co-founder
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
Alec Radford
Listed with an "Independent" affiliation on 2026 arXiv papers, Independent researcher
First author of GPT-2, CLIP and Whisper at OpenAI; independent researcher on 2026 papers
Alessio Fanelli
Podcast co-host, Latent Space
Co-host of the Latent Space podcast for AI engineers and a partner at Decibel
Alex Rives
Head of Science, Biohub
Head of Science at Biohub; founder and former chief scientist of EvolutionaryScale, developer of ESM3
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
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 Farhadi
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; co-director of the RAIVN Lab, University of Washington
University of Washington professor co-directing the RAIVN Lab; former Ai2 CEO who advised on OLMo
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
Ali Madani
Co-founder and CEO, Profluent
Co-founder and CEO of Profluent; led the ProGen protein language model work at Salesforce AI Research
Amanda Askell
Leads Anthropic's Character work (finetuning and AI alignment), Anthropic
Philosopher who leads Anthropic's Character work; primary author of Claude's constitution
Ami Vora
Chief Product Officer, Anthropic
Chief Product Officer of Anthropic, leading the product organization behind Claude
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
Andriy Mulyar
CEO, Nomic AI
CEO of Nomic and co-author of the GPT4All and Nomic Embed technical reports
Angela Fan
Research Scientist, Meta
Llama 3 core contributor and Llama 2 co-author; machine translation research at Meta's FAIR, including NLLB
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
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
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
Aravind Srinivas
Cofounder and CEO, Perplexity
Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity; first author of CURL and Bottleneck Transformers
Arjun Desai
Co-founder, Cartesia
Co-founder of Cartesia; co-author of Llamba, distilled recurrent language models
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
Armen Aghajanyan
Co-founder, Perceptron
Co-founder of Perceptron; first author of CM3 and joint first author of Meta's Chameleon models
Arthur Conmy
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Anthropic Member of Technical Staff; former Google DeepMind senior research engineer; ACDC first author
Arthur Mensch
Co-founder and CEO, Mistral AI
Co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI; equal-contribution author of DeepMind's Chinchilla scaling paper
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
Aylin Caliskan
Associate Professor, The Information School; Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (courtesy), University of Washington
University of Washington associate professor studying bias, safety, and societal impacts of AI
Azalia Mirhoseini
Assistant Professor of Computer Science; directs the Scaling Intelligence lab, Stanford University
Stanford assistant professor directing Scaling Intelligence; co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence
Baptiste Rozière
Research scientist in the code generation team, Meta AI
First author of Code Llama and co-author of LLaMA and Llama 3; later an author on Mistral AI model papers
Barret Zoph
VP of Research (Post-Training), OpenAI
First author of neural architecture search at Google Brain; earlier VP of Research (Post-Training) at OpenAI
Bartowski
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Red Hat
Publishes GGUF quantizations of open models and contributes to llama.cpp; ML engineer at Red Hat
Ben Mann
Co-founder, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder; co-author of the GPT-3 paper and of Anthropic's RLHF and Constitutional AI papers
Beren Millidge
Co-founder and Chief Scientist, leading the technical teams, Zyphra
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Zyphra; senior author of the Zamba, Zamba2 and Zamba2-VL reports
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
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
Bob McGrew
Listed under executive leadership in the OpenAI o1 System Card (2024), OpenAI
Listed in OpenAI's executive leadership on the o1 System Card; led aspects of OpenAI's robot-hand research
Brandon Duderstadt
Founder, Calcifer Computing
Nomic co-founder and co-author of the GPT4All and Nomic Embed technical reports
Brian Hie
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Evolutionary Design, Stanford University
Stanford assistant professor and Arc Institute Innovation Investigator; co-senior author of Evo 2
Bryan Catanzaro
VP, Applied Deep Learning Research, NVIDIA
VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA; co-author of the Megatron-LM and cuDNN papers
Ce Zhang
Founder & CTO, Together AI
Founder and CTO of Together AI; Neubauer Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Chicago
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
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
Clara Shih
Senior Advisor, Meta Platforms
Senior Advisor at Meta; started Meta's Business AI Group; former CEO of Salesforce AI
Clément Farabet
VP of Research, Google DeepMind
VP of Research at Google DeepMind and Gemma 4 core contributor; formerly NVIDIA's VP of AI infrastructure
Colin Raffel
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
University of Toronto associate professor and Hugging Face faculty researcher; first author of the T5 paper
Collin Burns
Worked at OpenAI, OpenAI
AI researcher formerly at OpenAI and Anthropic; first author of weak-to-strong generalization research
Connor Leahy
Co-founder (2020), EleutherAI
Co-founder of EleutherAI and Conjecture; co-author of The Pile and the GPT-NeoX-20B paper
Craig Federighi
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Apple
Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering, also responsible for Apple's core AI efforts
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 Su
Research scientist (large language model pretraining), NVIDIA
NVIDIA research scientist working on LLM pretraining; co-lead author of the Nemotron-CC dataset paper
Dani Yogatama
Co-founder and CEO, Reka
Co-founder and CEO of Reka and associate professor of computer science at USC
Daniel De Freitas
Co-founder (December 2022 launch post), Character.AI
Co-founder of Character.AI; led the development of the Meena and LaMDA dialog models at Google
Danqi Chen
Associate Professor of Computer Science; co-lead, Princeton NLP Group; associate director, Princeton Language and Intelligence, Princeton University
Princeton associate professor co-leading the Princeton NLP Group; co-author of RoBERTa and SimCSE
David Bau
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Northeastern professor studying neural-network internals; Bau's lab launched the NDIF project
David D. Cox
VP, AI Foundations; IBM Director, MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, IBM Research
VP, AI Foundations at IBM Research, working on IBM's Granite models; earlier a Harvard professor
David Grangier
Machine Learning Group, Apple Research, Apple
Machine learning researcher at Apple; co-author of the fairseq sequence modeling toolkit
David Talby
Chief Executive Officer, John Snow Labs
CEO of John Snow Labs and creator of the open-source Spark NLP library; formerly at Microsoft and Amazon
David Wadden
Research scientist, working on post-training for Gemini, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini post-training; former Ai2 researcher on OLMo and Tülu
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
Diogo Almeida
Founder and CEO, TypeSafe AI
Founder and CEO of TypeSafe AI; co-author of OpenAI's InstructGPT paper on training with human feedback
Dirk Groeneveld
Base-model developer on OLMo 2, listed with an Ai2 affiliation (2024), Ai2
First author of Ai2's OLMo paper; contributor to OLMo 2, OLMoE, and the Dolma corpus
Dong Yu
VP of AI Foundations, Capital One
VP of AI Foundations at Capital One; former Microsoft Research principal researcher; first author on CNTK
Douwe Kiela
Researcher, Google DeepMind
Researcher at Google DeepMind; co-founder and former CEO of Contextual AI; co-author of the RAG paper
Dwarkesh Patel
Host, Dwarkesh Podcast
Host of Dwarkesh Podcast and author of The Scaling Era, an oral history of AI from 2019 to 2025
Edouard Grave
Chief Language Officer (listed among alumni), Kyutai
Equal-contribution author of Meta's LLaMA paper; co-author of fastText and of Kyutai's Moshi
Edward Beeching
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Hugging Face
Hugging Face research scientist; credited author of the TRL library and co-first author of Zephyr
Eiso Kant
Co-founder and co-CEO, Poolside
Co-founder and co-CEO of Poolside, which builds open-weight foundation models for agentic coding
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
Emmanuel Dupoux
Professor (EHESS), Cognitive machine learning team, EHESS
EHESS professor in the Cognitive Machine Learning team; co-author of FAIR's generative spoken language work
Eric Hartford
Founder, Quixi.AI
Founder of Quixi.AI and creator of the Dolphin and Samantha open models; formerly at Microsoft and AWS
Eric Michael Smith
Research Scientist (the page's bio describes a Research Engineer role at FAIR), Meta
Research scientist at Meta; first author of HolisticBias and a core contributor to Llama 3
Eric Mitchell
Co-lead of the Post-training Frontiers team (with Yann Dubois), OpenAI
Co-lead of OpenAI's Post-training Frontiers team; co-author of Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)
Ethan Perez
Researcher, Anthropic
Anthropic safety researcher; co-author of the RAG, red-teaming, and Constitutional Classifiers work
Eugene Yan
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; former Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon
Evan Hubinger
Alignment Stress-Testing lead, Anthropic
Alignment Stress-Testing lead at Anthropic; first author of the Sleeper Agents paper
Fabian Pedregosa
Research scientist, Gemini Core team, Google
Research scientist at Google on the Gemini Core team; led scikit-learn's first public release in 2010
Furu Wei
Distinguished Scientist and Vice President; Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia, leading the GenAI group, Microsoft Research
Distinguished Scientist and Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia; senior author of the BitNet papers
Gabe Pereyra
President and co-founder, Harvey
President and co-founder of Harvey; co-author of the post introducing Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark
Gabriel Synnaeve
Research scientist (joined FAIR as a postdoctoral researcher in 2015; listed with Meta Superintelligence Labs on a 2026 paper), Meta
Research scientist at Meta; last author of Code Llama and co-author of Wav2Letter, EnCodec, and MusicGen
Garyk Brixi
Researcher training genome language models in the EvoDesign Lab, Stanford University (EvoDesign Lab) and Arc Institute
First-listed author of Evo 2, the genome language model from Arc Institute and Stanford
George Halal
Machine learning software engineer, Google
Co-author of Contextual AI's open Reranker v2 models; machine learning software engineer at Google
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
Guilherme Penedo
Machine Learning Research Engineer, Hugging Face
Machine Learning Research Engineer at Hugging Face; first author of FineWeb, FineWeb2 and RefinedWeb
Guillaume Lample
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Mistral AI
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Mistral AI; equal-contribution author of Meta's LLaMA paper
Hanlin Tang
CTO - Neural Networks, Databricks
CTO of Neural Networks at Databricks; co-founder and former CTO of MosaicML
Hannaneh Hajishirzi
Torode Family Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; leads the H2Lab, University of Washington
Torode Family Professor at the University of Washington; co-led Ai2's OLMo and Tülu open models
Harrison Chase
Co-founder, LangChain
Started the open-source LangChain framework and co-founded LangChain, the company behind it
Hendrik Strobelt
Senior Research Scientist; Explainability Lead, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM Research
Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research and MIT-IBM lab explainability lead; co-creator of GLTR
Henrique Schechter Vera
Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind research engineer; first author of the EmbeddingGemma paper
Hoifung Poon
General Manager, Microsoft Health Futures (as introduced in February 2025), Microsoft Health Futures
Introduced in 2025 as general manager of Microsoft Health Futures; co-author of LLaVA-Med and Medprompt
Hsiao-Wuen Hon
Emeritus Researcher, Microsoft Research
Emeritus Researcher at Microsoft Research; former Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia
Hynek Kydlíček
ML Engineer, Hugging Face
ML engineer at Hugging Face; second author of the FineWeb and FineWeb2 dataset papers
Hyung Won Chung
Research Scientist, OpenAI
Researcher on reasoning and agents, formerly at Google Brain; first author of the Flan-T5 scaling paper
Ian R. McKenzie
Research Engineer (since September 2025), Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind research engineer; lead author of the Inverse Scaling paper and FAR.AI's STACK study
Illia Polosukhin
Founder, NEAR AI
Founder of NEAR AI; co-author of the Transformer paper, written while at Google Research
Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc.; co-author of the CLIP, Whisper and GPT-3 papers at OpenAI
Jacob Andreas
Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT associate professor in EECS and CSAIL studying language learning and how neural models represent meaning
Jacob Andreou
EVP, Copilot, Microsoft
Executive Vice President, Copilot at Microsoft; former CVP of Product and Growth at Microsoft AI
Jakob Uszkoreit
Co-founder and CEO, Inceptive
Co-founder and CEO of Inceptive; co-author of the Transformer paper during Google's language research
Jakub Pachocki
Chief Scientist, OpenAI
Chief Scientist at OpenAI; overall pretraining lead for GPT-4; set research direction for OpenAI Five
Jared Kaplan
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer; first author of the 2020 scaling-laws paper
Jason Warner
Co-founder and co-CEO, Poolside
Co-founder and co-CEO of Poolside, which builds open-weight foundation models for agentic coding
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 Alammar
Director and Engineering Fellow, Cohere
Writer of illustrated machine learning guides and co-author of Hands-On Large Language Models
Jeff Dean
Co-founder, Discovery Loop
Co-founder of Discovery Loop; former Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research
Jeffrey A. Ruffolo
Machine learning team member, Profluent
Member of Profluent's machine learning team; co-author of the Profluent-E1 and ProGen3 protein model preprints
Jeffrey Quesnelle
Co-founder and CTO, Nous Research
Co-founder and CTO of Nous Research; co-author of the Hermes 4 technical report, YaRN and DeMo
Jesse Dodge
Research scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Research scientist in Meta Superintelligence Labs; former OLMo evaluation lead at Ai2
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
Joe Spisak
Vice President of Product and Head of Open Source, Reflection AI
VP of Product and Head of Open Source at Reflection AI; PyTorch core maintainer
Johannes Hagemann
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Prime Intellect
Co-founder and CTO of Prime Intellect; co-author of the INTELLECT-1, INTELLECT-2 and INTELLECT-3 reports
John Giannandrea
Senior Vice President, Machine Learning and AI Strategy (2018–2025), Apple
Former Apple senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, overseeing Core ML and Siri
John Schulman
Cofounder and chief scientist, Thinking Machines Lab
Co-founder and chief scientist of Thinking Machines Lab; OpenAI co-founder and first author of PPO and TRPO
John X. Morris
Part-time student researcher, Meta
AI researcher (Jack Morris) and second author of the Nomic Embed technical report; creator of TextAttack
Jonathan Cohen
Credited in Nemotron 3 leadership (December 2025) and Nemotron 3 Super contributors (April 2026), NVIDIA
NVIDIA AI software leader who led NeMo development; listed in the Nemotron 3 leadership credits
Jonathan Frankle
Chief AI Scientist, Databricks
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks; first author of the lottery ticket hypothesis paper; MosaicML founding team
Ju-Chieh Chou
Ph.D. student, advised by Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
TTIC PhD student in speech and language processing; former research intern at Meta and Microsoft
Junyang Lin
Independent researcher, Independent
Independent researcher on language models and agents; co-author of the OpenHands and Qwen3 papers
Jyoti Aneja
Member of Technical Staff, AI Frontiers team, Microsoft Research
Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers; co-lead of Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B
Kai-Fu Lee
Founder and CEO, 01.AI
Founder and CEO of 01.AI; developed CMU's Sphinx speech recognizer; earlier at Apple, Microsoft and Google
Karan Goel
CEO and Founder, Cartesia
CEO and founder of Cartesia; co-author of the S4 and SaShiMi state space model papers
Karen Livescu
Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Professor at TTI-Chicago working on speech and language processing; former MIT EECS post-doctoral lecturer
Karén Simonyan
Chief Scientist, Microsoft AI (announced March 2024), Microsoft AI
First author of the VGG networks paper; joined Microsoft AI as Chief Scientist in 2024 from Inflection AI
Kari Briski
VP, AI Software Product Management, NVIDIA
VP of AI software product management at NVIDIA; listed in the Nemotron 3 leadership credits
Kate Soule
Director, Technical Product Management, Granite, IBM Research
Director of Technical Product Management for Granite at IBM Research; co-author of Granite Embedding
Kenneth Li
Researcher, Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab researcher; lead author of Othello world-model and Inference-Time Intervention papers
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
Koray Kavukcuoglu
SVP, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind
SVP of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect at Google; co-author of the DQN and WaveNet papers
Kristina Toutanova
Research scientist, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind and University of Washington affiliate faculty; co-author of BERT
Krithik Puthalath
Founder and CEO, Zyphra
Founder and CEO of Zyphra, the open-model research lab behind Zamba and Zyphra Cloud
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
Kyunghyun Cho
Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics; Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, New York University
NYU professor of computer science and data science; co-author of the RNN encoder-decoder and attention papers
Laurent Sartran
Listed with DeepMind on the Transformer Grammars paper (2022), DeepMind
First author of Transformer Grammars at DeepMind and co-author of the SynJax library for JAX
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
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
Lewis Tunstall
Machine learning engineer working on post-training, Hugging Face
Works on post-training at Hugging Face; first author of Zephyr and a listed author of TRL
Li Deng
Chief Scientist of AI, founder of the Deep Learning Technology Center, and Partner Research Manager (2000–2017), Microsoft and Microsoft Research
Former Chief Scientist of AI at Microsoft and founder of its Deep Learning Technology Center
Liam Fedus
Listed under "Who we are" on the Periodic Labs homepage, Periodic Labs
On the Periodic Labs team; first author of Switch Transformers; in OpenAI o1 reasoning research leadership
Lilian Weng
Author, Lil'Log
Author of Lil'Log, a blog of long-form learning notes on machine learning research
Liliang Ren
Member of Technical Staff, Thinking Machines Lab
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; first author of SambaY and Samba
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
Lucas Atkins
Author of Arcee AI's model launch posts and co-author of its Trinity Large technical report, Arcee AI
Arcee AI author of the Trinity model launch posts and co-author of the Arcee Trinity Large technical report
Luis Lastras
Director of language and multimodal models, IBM Research
IBM Research director of language and multimodal models; co-author of the Granite Switch 4.1 launch post
Łukasz Kaiser
Listed under Reasoning Research leadership in the OpenAI o1 System Card; GitHub profile lists OpenAI, OpenAI
OpenAI researcher; co-author of the Transformer paper and the TensorFlow white paper
Luke Melas-Kyriazi
Building Cursor, Anysphere
Building Cursor at Anysphere; former Meta visiting researcher working on 3D generation
Luke Zettlemoyer
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
University of Washington professor and Senior Research Director at Meta; co-author of RoBERTa and QLoRA
Lysandre Debut
Chief Open-Source Officer, Hugging Face
Chief Open-Source Officer at Hugging Face; co-author of the Transformers library paper and DistilBERT
Margaret Mitchell
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; first author of Model Cards for Model Reporting
Marie-Anne Lachaux
Author listed with Facebook AI Research (2020), Meta AI (2023) and GenAI, Meta (2023), Meta
Co-author of Meta's LLaMA and Llama 2 papers and of Mistral 7B; first author on unsupervised code translation
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
Mark Chen
Chief Research Officer, OpenAI
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI; first author of the Codex paper that released HumanEval
Mark McQuade
Co-founder (identified as CEO and co-founder in a July 2025 company announcement), Arcee AI
Co-founder of Arcee AI, which builds the open-weight Trinity models; co-author of Arcee's MergeKit paper
Mathias Lechner
Co-founder and CTO, Liquid AI
Co-founder and CTO of Liquid AI; first author of the Neural Circuit Policies paper
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
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
Michael Auli
Principal Research Scientist/Director, Meta
Former Principal Research Scientist/Director at Meta FAIR; last author of wav2vec 2.0, fairseq, and MMS
Michael Collins
Research scientist, Google
Natural language processing researcher and research scientist at Google; former MIT faculty member
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
Mika Senghaas
Research engineer, Prime Intellect
Research engineer at Prime Intellect; first author of the INTELLECT-3 and PRIME-RL reports
Ming Zhou
Founder and CEO, Langboat Technology
Founder and CEO of Langboat; former Vice President of Microsoft Research Asia, where Zhou led NLP research
Mira Murati
Co-founder and CEO, Thinking Machines Lab
Co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab; previously in OpenAI's executive leadership
Misha Bilenko
Listed among the authors of the Phi-3 Technical Report, which is credited to Microsoft, Microsoft
Co-author of Microsoft's Phi-3 technical report on small language models that run on a phone
Mohit Iyyer
Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Maryland
University of Maryland associate professor; former Young Investigator at Ai2
Myle Ott
Founding team, Thinking Machines Lab
Founding-team member at Thinking Machines Lab; first author of fairseq and co-author of OPT and RoBERTa
Nanyun (Violet) Peng
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google
Google Senior Staff Research Scientist and UCLA associate professor (on leave) working on creative NLP
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
Naveen Rao
CEO and cofounder, Unconventional AI
CEO and cofounder of Unconventional AI; founder of Nervana Systems and MosaicML; former Databricks VP of AI
Nicholas Carlini
Research Scientist, Anthropic
Research scientist at Anthropic working on machine learning security; formerly at Google Brain and DeepMind
Nick Frosst
Co-founder, Cohere
Co-founder of Cohere; co-author with Geoffrey Hinton of capsule-network research at Google Brain
Niki Parmar
Listed with Google Research (2017) and Google Brain (2018) affiliations on papers, Google Research and Google Brain
Co-author of the Transformer paper and first-listed author of Image Transformer, both from Google
Nils Reimers
VP of AI Search, Cohere
Creator of the Sentence Transformers library and VP of AI Search at Cohere
Noah A. Smith
Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence; Charles and Lisa Simonyi Endowed Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies; Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
UW Vice Provost for AI and professor; Senior Director of NLP Research at Ai2, directing OLMo
Noam Brown
Research Scientist, OpenAI
OpenAI research scientist working on reasoning; creator of Libratus and Pluribus; CICERO co-author
Noam Shazeer
Vice President, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind
Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of the Transformer paper and the mixture-of-experts layer
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
Omar Sanseviero
Developer Experience Lead, Google DeepMind
Developer Experience Lead at Google DeepMind, working on Gemma launches and developer guides
Oren Etzioni
Adviser and board member, Ai2
Founding CEO of Ai2 (2013–2022) and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington
Oriol Vinyals
Vice President, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind
Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of sequence-to-sequence learning and the TensorFlow white paper
Owain Evans
Director, Truthful AI
Director of the nonprofit Truthful AI and affiliate researcher at CHAI, UC Berkeley; TruthfulQA co-author
Paige Bailey
Engineering lead; Developer Experience Lead, Google DeepMind
Engineering lead for developer experience at Google DeepMind; contributor to the first Gemma open models
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 Sarlin
Founder and chairperson of the board (since 2025, per a CV dated March 2026), Qutwo Oy and NestAI Oy
Co-founder and former CEO of Silo AI, acquired by AMD in 2024; co-author of the Poro 34B open model paper
Piero Molino
CEO and Co-founder, Studio Atelico
Creator of the Ludwig declarative deep learning framework; CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico
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
Quoc Le
Listed with Google and Google Brain affiliations on 2014–2017 papers, Google Brain
Co-author of the sequence-to-sequence, GNMT, and neural architecture search papers at Google
Rama Akkiraju
Vice president of AI for IT, NVIDIA
Vice president of AI for IT at NVIDIA; former IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM Watson AI Operations
Ramin Hasani
Co-founder and CEO, Liquid AI
Co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI; first author of the Liquid Time-constant Networks paper
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
Rishi Bommasani
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford University
Senior Research Scholar at Stanford HAI; HELM co-author and first author of the foundation models report
Rohan Taori
Researcher on the pretraining team, Anthropic
Pretraining researcher at Anthropic; co-author of Stanford Alpaca, AlpacaFarm and AlpacaEval
Rohit Prasad
Chief Executive Officer, Boston Dynamics
CEO of Boston Dynamics since October 2026; previously head scientist for Alexa and AGI at Amazon
Ronan Collobert
Research scientist, Machine Learning Research, Apple
Research scientist in Apple Machine Learning Research; developer of Torch, wav2letter, and flashlight
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
Rowan Cheung
Founder, The Rundown AI
Founder of The Rundown, an AI newsletter, and host of the Rowan's Notes podcast
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
Ruoming Pang
Listed with Meta Platforms on the ScaleAcross Explorer paper (May 2026); GitHub profile lists Meta, Meta
Overall lead of Apple's 2024 foundation language models and corresponding author of AXLearn; now at Meta
Saadia Gabriel
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA assistant professor studying factuality, intent, and harm in language; former NYU and MIT fellow
Sahil Dua
Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind research engineer; co-author of EmbeddingGemma and co-writer of the EmbeddingGemma 2 launch
Sam McCandlish
Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Architect; co-led the 2020 scaling-laws research at OpenAI
Sameer Singh
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
UC Irvine professor of computer science; co-author of LIME and CheckList; former Ai2 Allen Fellow
Samuel Marks
Member of Technical Staff; leads the Cognitive Oversight subteam of the Alignment Science team, Anthropic
Leads the Cognitive Oversight subteam at Anthropic; first author of a study on auditing hidden objectives
Samuel R. Bowman
Technical AI safety researcher, Anthropic
Technical AI safety researcher at Anthropic; NYU associate professor on leave; co-author of Petri
Samy Bengio
Senior Director, AI and Machine Learning Research, Apple
Senior Director of AI and Machine Learning Research at Apple; sponsor of the MLX library
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
Sarthak Jain
Machine learning team member, Profluent
Member of Profluent's machine learning team and first author of the Profluent-E1 protein encoder models
Sasha Rush
ML Researcher (Composer series of models), Cursor
ML researcher; former Cornell and Harvard professor and former Cursor and Hugging Face researcher
Sasha Sheng
Founder and COO, TypeSafe AI
Co-founder and COO of TypeSafe AI; former research engineer at Meta and FAIR
Saurabh Tiwary
Vice President, Technical Fellow, Google DeepMind (page title); Vice President and General Manager of Cloud AI (bio), Google
Google vice president; former Microsoft CVP and Technical Fellow who led the Microsoft Turing group
Sebastian Raschka
Senior engineer, Lightning AI
LLM research engineer and author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch); formerly at Lightning AI
Sébastien Bubeck
Listed with an OpenAI affiliation on the November 2025 paper "Early science acceleration experiments with GPT-5", OpenAI
OpenAI author on gpt-oss and GPT-5 science work; earlier a Microsoft GenAI vice president and Phi co-author
Sergey Brin
Member of the Board of Directors (Executive Committee), Alphabet
Google co-founder and Alphabet director; listed author on the Gemini and Gemini 2.5 technical reports
Sergey Edunov
CTO, Genesis Molecular AI
CTO of Genesis Molecular AI; formerly led development of Meta's Llama 2 and Llama 3 models
Shantanu Jain
Works on language models, including training data and training infrastructure (since 2020), OpenAI
Author of OpenAI's tiktoken tokenizer; mypy and typeshed maintainer and CPython core developer
Shengjia Zhao
Chief Scientist for the new lab effort (as stated by Meta in July 2025), Meta Superintelligence Labs
Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs; earlier a contributor to GPT-4 and OpenAI o1
Sheshansh Agrawal
Director of Research, Contextual AI
Director of Research at Contextual AI; co-author of the open Contextual AI Reranker v2 models
Shiv Rao
CEO and co-founder, Abridge
Co-founder and CEO of Abridge, which drafts clinical documentation from clinician-patient conversations
Shixiang Shane Gu
Senior Staff Research Scientist (Gemini Thinking team), Google DeepMind
Senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini; co-author of Gumbel-Softmax and zero-shot CoT
Shunyu Yao
Researcher, OpenAI
First author of ReAct, Tree of Thoughts and the τ-bench agent benchmark; language-agent researcher
Sid Black
Co-founder (2020), EleutherAI
Lead developer of GPT-NeoX-20B; co-founder of EleutherAI and Conjecture; co-author of The Pile
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
Song Han
Associate Professor with tenure, EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT associate professor and NVIDIA research director; co-author of AWQ, SmoothQuant and StreamingLLM
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
Stas Bekman
Develops efficient post-training software at Snowflake AI Research, Snowflake AI Research
Software engineer focused on LLM training at Snowflake AI Research; author of an open ML engineering book
Stefano Ermon
CEO, Inception
CEO of Inception, developer of Mercury diffusion LLMs; Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
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
Stella Biderman
Executive Director, EleutherAI
Executive Director of EleutherAI; first author of the Pythia open model suite
Stephen Roller
Member of the Technical Staff, Thinking Machines Lab
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; co-first author of OPT; dialogue and LLM work at Meta FAIR
Su Lin Blodgett
Independent visiting researcher, Mila
Researcher on the social implications and evaluation of NLP; formerly at Microsoft Research
Susan Zhang
Built the LLM training infrastructure that created OPT-175B, Meta AI / FAIR
Co-first author of Meta AI's OPT; built LLM training infrastructure at FAIR and RL systems for OpenAI Five
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
Tatsunori Hashimoto
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Stanford assistant professor; advisor on Stanford Alpaca, HELM co-author, and CS336 instructor
Teknium
Co-founder, Nous Research
Co-founder of Nous Research and first-listed author of the Hermes 3 and Hermes 4 technical reports
TheBloke
Contributor (convert.py, 2023), llama.cpp project
Published quantized GGUF, GPTQ and AWQ versions of open language models on Hugging Face
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
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO), Hugging Face
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face; created the Transformers library
Timothée Lacroix
Co-founder and CTO, Mistral AI
Co-founder and CTO of Mistral AI; co-author of Meta's LLaMA paper
Tom Brown
Co-Founder and Chief Compute Officer, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Compute Officer; first author of the GPT-3 paper
Torsten Scholak
Leads the Foundation Model Lab at ServiceNow Research; co-founder of the SLAM initiative, ServiceNow
Leads the Foundation Model Lab at ServiceNow Research; technical co-lead of the Apriel open-weight models
Tri Dao
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, leading the Dao AI Lab, Princeton University
First author of FlashAttention and co-author of Mamba; Princeton professor and Together AI co-founder
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
Valentina Pyatkin
Researcher working on LLM post-training for the Swiss AI Initiative, ETH AI Center
Researcher at the ETH AI Center working on LLM post-training; core contributor to Tülu 3
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
Victor Sanh
Listed as the current company on Sanh's GitHub profile (no title stated), Rilix
First author of DistilBERT and T0; co-author of the Transformers library paper and the Idefics2 model
Waseem AlShikh
CTO and co-founder, WRITER
Co-founder and CTO of WRITER, developer of the Palmyra large language models
Weizhu Chen
Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, leading a modeling team, Microsoft AI
Technical Fellow and CVP at Microsoft AI; senior author of LoRA, DeBERTa and Samba
Wes Roth
Creator, Wes Roth
Creator of the Wes Roth YouTube channel, which covers AI news and its implications
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
Wojciech Zaremba
Head of AI Resilience, OpenAI Foundation
OpenAI co-founder; Head of AI Resilience at the OpenAI Foundation
Xiaodong He
Senior Vice President of JD Group (JD.COM), JD Group
Senior Vice President of JD Group; former head of Microsoft Research's Deep Learning Technology Center
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
Xuedong Huang
Chief Technology Officer, Zoom
Chief Technology Officer of Zoom; former Azure AI CTO and Technical Fellow at Microsoft
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
Yannic Kilcher
Creator and host, Yannic Kilcher
Machine learning researcher who makes YouTube videos analyzing AI research papers and ML news
Yejin Choi
Dieter Schwarz Foundation Professor of Computer Science; Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI, Stanford University
Stanford professor and HAI Senior Fellow; formerly at NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and Ai2
Yoav Shoham
Chairman & Co-Founder, AI21 Labs
Co-founder and chairman of AI21 Labs; professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford
Yonghui Wu
First author of Google's 2016 GNMT paper, Google
First author of the paper on Google's Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT); co-author of Lingvo
Younes Belkada
Machine Learning Engineer, Hugging Face
Listed author of Hugging Face's TRL library and co-author of the StarCoder2, Zephyr, and LLM.int8() papers
Yu-An Chung
Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Meta
Research scientist at FAIR (Meta) working on speech; in the technical leadership of Omnilingual ASR
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
Yulia Tsvetkov
Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
University of Washington associate professor working on reliable, socially aware, and multilingual NLP
Yuxin Wu
Builds foundation models (Kimi), Moonshot AI
Creator of Detectron2; builds foundation models at Moonshot AI; formerly at Google Brain and FAIR
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
Zhilin Yang
Worked at Google Brain with Quoc V. Le, Google Brain
Co-first author of XLNet and Transformer-XL; earlier worked at Google Brain and Meta AI
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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