People
People from Carnegie Mellon
50 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at Carnegie Mellon University. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only. See also Carnegie Mellon University in the catalog.
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
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
Alexei A. Efros
Howard Friesen Professor, EECS Department; member of BAIR, University of California, Berkeley
Howard Friesen Professor in UC Berkeley EECS and member of BAIR; co-author of pix2pix and CycleGAN
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
Andrew Ng
Founder, DeepLearning.AI
Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Stanford adjunct professor, and founding lead of the Google Brain team
Byron Boots
Professor; Amazon Professor of Machine Learning; director of the UW Robot Learning Laboratory, University of Washington (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering)
Amazon Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington; co-founder and CEO of Overland AI
Carlos Guestrin
Professor, Computer Science; Fortinet Founders Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of XGBoost and LIME and co-founder of Turi
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
Dani Yogatama
Co-founder and CEO, Reka
Co-founder and CEO of Reka and associate professor of computer science at USC
Deepak Pathak
Co-founder and CEO, Skild AI
Co-founder and CEO of Skild AI; Raj Reddy Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
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
Geoffrey Hinton
Emeritus distinguished professor, University of Toronto
2024 Nobel laureate in Physics; University of Toronto emeritus professor and former Google Vice President
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
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
Hao Zhang
Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Computer Science and Engineering; leads the Hao AI Lab, University of California San Diego
UC San Diego assistant professor who leads the Hao AI Lab; FastVideo, vLLM and Chatbot Arena co-author
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
Hsiao-Wuen Hon
Emeritus Researcher, Microsoft Research
Emeritus Researcher at Microsoft Research; former Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia
Ion Stoica
Professor of Computer Science, Xu Bao Chancellor Chair; Director of the Sky Computing Lab, University of California, Berkeley
Co-author of the Ray and vLLM papers; UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale
Jesse Dodge
Research scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Research scientist in Meta Superintelligence Labs; former OLMo evaluation lead at Ai2
Jiatong Shi
Organization listed on Shi's GitHub profile, Anuttacon
First author of the VERSA speech and audio evaluation toolkit; former PhD student in CMU's WAVLab
Joelle Pineau
Chief AI Officer, Cohere
Chief AI Officer at Cohere and McGill professor; led Meta's FAIR research team from 2017 to 2025
John Langford
Partner Researcher Manager, Microsoft Research
Partner Researcher Manager at Microsoft Research; principal developer of Vowpal Wabbit
Joseph E. Gonzalez
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley professor whose group built Gorilla and the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard
Jun-Yan Zhu
Michael B. Donohue Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University (School of Computer Science)
CMU associate professor and Nunchux AI co-founder; first author of CycleGAN and co-author of pix2pix
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
Karen Livescu
Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Professor at TTI-Chicago working on speech and language processing; former MIT EECS post-doctoral lecturer
Ken Goldberg
William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair of Engineering; Distinguished Professor of IEOR and EECS and Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor working on robot grasping and automation; senior author of Dex-Net 2.0
Maarten Sap
Assistant Professor, Language Technologies Institute (courtesy appointment in HCII), Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon assistant professor and part-time senior research scientist at Ai2; co-author of SOTOPIA
Marc Raibert
Founder and Executive Director, Robotics and AI Institute
Founder of Boston Dynamics and executive director of the Robotics and AI Institute
Mark Russinovich
Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
CTO and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure; creator of Sysinternals
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
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
Omar Khattab
Assistant Professor (leads the MIT OASYS lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS and CSAIL)
First author of DSPy and ColBERT; Assistant Professor at MIT EECS, where Khattab leads the OASYS lab
Oren Etzioni
Adviser and board member, Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
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
Peter Lee
President, Microsoft Science, Microsoft
President of Microsoft Science; previously led Microsoft Research's worldwide laboratories
Pras Velagapudi
Chief Technology Officer (joined May 2023), Agility Robotics
Chief Technology Officer of Agility Robotics, leading the Digit humanoid robot's technology roadmap
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
Shinji Watanabe
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University; first author of the ESPnet speech processing toolkit
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
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
Tianqi Chen
Associate Professor, Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Started MLC LLM, a compiler-based engine for running language models on GPUs, phones, and browsers
Tim Dettmers
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Creator and maintainer of bitsandbytes; Assistant Professor at CMU and Research Scientist at Ai2
Vikash Kumar
Co-founder, CEO, Myolab.ai
Co-founder and CEO of Myolab.ai and CMU adjunct professor; lead creator of MyoSuite and RoboHive
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
Xuedong Huang
Chief Technology Officer, Zoom
Chief Technology Officer of Zoom; former Azure AI CTO and Technical Fellow at Microsoft
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
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
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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