People
People in multimodal models
50 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list multimodal 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.
Aditya Ramesh
VP of Research; leads Worldsim, OpenAI
VP of Research at OpenAI who leads Worldsim; first author of DALL·E and DALL·E 2, co-author of CLIP
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
Alexander Kirillov
Works on multimodal AI models, Thinking Machines Lab
First author of Segment Anything; works on multimodal models at Thinking Machines; formerly OpenAI and FAIR
Alexandre Défossez
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Gradium
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Gradium and co-founder of Kyutai; behind MusicGen, EnCodec and Moshi
Alexei Baevski
Company listed on Baevski's GitHub profile, Google
First author of wav2vec 2.0 and data2vec at Facebook AI; fairseq co-author
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
Amit Jain
Co-founder and CEO, Luma AI
Co-founder and CEO of Luma AI, the company behind the Dream Machine platform and Ray video models
Armen Aghajanyan
Co-founder, Perceptron
Co-founder of Perceptron; first author of CM3 and joint first author of Meta's Chameleon models
Bin Xiao
Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Superintelligence team, Microsoft
Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft; first author of Florence-2 and former lead of Florence models
Christoph Feichtenhofer
Director, Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Director and research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs; SAM 3 project lead and SlowFast first author
Christopher Clark
Senior research scientist, leading the open-ecosystem multimodal team, Allen Institute for AI
Senior research scientist at Ai2 leading the open multimodal team; co-first author of Molmo and Molmo2
Cordelia Schmid
Research Director, WILLOW project team, Inria
Inria research director in the WILLOW team, with a joint appointment at Google Research since 2018
Dani Yogatama
Co-founder and CEO, Reka
Co-founder and CEO of Reka and associate professor of computer science at USC
David Harwath
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science; leads the SALT Lab, The University of Texas at Austin
UT Austin assistant professor who leads the SALT Lab; former MIT CSAIL research scientist
Douwe Kiela
Researcher, Google DeepMind
Researcher at Google DeepMind; co-founder and former CEO of Contextual AI; co-author of the RAG paper
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
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
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
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
Jiaming Song
Chief Scientist, Luma AI
Creator of DDIM; former Chief Scientist at Luma AI and former research scientist at NVIDIA Research
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
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
João Carreira
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind; co-creator of the Kinetics dataset and the Perception Test
John Langford
Partner Researcher Manager, Microsoft Research
Partner Researcher Manager at Microsoft Research; principal developer of Vowpal Wabbit
Jong Wook Kim
Member of technical staff (since August 2019), OpenAI
OpenAI member of technical staff; co-author of CLIP and Whisper and maintainer of the Whisper repository
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
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
Mark Chen
Chief Research Officer, OpenAI
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI; first author of the Codex paper that released HumanEval
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
Mira Murati
Co-founder and CEO, Thinking Machines Lab
Co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab; previously in OpenAI's executive leadership
Nanyun (Violet) Peng
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google
Google Senior Staff Research Scientist and UCLA associate professor (on leave) working on creative NLP
Nataniel Ruiz
AI researcher working on pre-training of generative models, Google DeepMind
Researcher on generative model pre-training at Google DeepMind; lead author of DreamBooth
Nikhila Ravi
Director; co-lead of the Segment Anything (SAM) team, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs who co-leads the Segment Anything team; first author of SAM 2
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
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
Sahil Dua
Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind research engineer; co-author of EmbeddingGemma and co-writer of the EmbeddingGemma 2 launch
Saining Xie
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO), AMI Labs
Co-founder and CSO of AMI Labs and NYU assistant professor; co-creator of DiT and co-author of ConvNeXt
Sasha Sheng
Founder and COO, TypeSafe AI
Co-founder and COO of TypeSafe AI; former research engineer at Meta and FAIR
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
Shusheng Yang
Ph.D. student at NYU Courant, advised by Prof. Saining Xie, New York University
NYU Courant PhD student; first author of Cambrian-S and co-first author of Thinking in Space and Qwen-VL
Simon See
Senior Director, Chief Solution Architect and Global Head, NVIDIA AI Technology Center, NVIDIA
Global Head of the NVIDIA AI Technology Center and Chief Solution Architect at NVIDIA
Trevor Darrell
Faculty, CS and EE Divisions of EECS; founding co-director of BAIR, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley professor who founded and co-leads BAIR; co-author of Caffe and R-CNN; President of Prompt AI
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
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
Wei-Ning Hsu
Research Scientist, Meta AI
Research scientist at Meta AI (formerly FAIR); first author of HuBERT
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
Xinlei Chen
Contributes to OpenAI's multimodal work, OpenAI
Contributes to multimodal work at OpenAI; formerly at xAI and Meta FAIR; first author of SimSiam
Xu Tan
Research VP of Multimodality, Moonshot AI
Research VP of Multimodality at Moonshot AI; formerly Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia
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