People
People from Harvard
22 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at Harvard University. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only. See also Harvard University in the catalog.
Angela Fan
Research Scientist, Meta (Facebook AI Research, FAIR)
Llama 3 core contributor and Llama 2 co-author; machine translation research at Meta's FAIR, including NLLB
Azeem Azhar
Founder, Exponential View
Founder of Exponential View, a weekly newsletter and podcast analyzing AI and other technologies
David Bau
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University (Khoury College of Computer Sciences)
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
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
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
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
James Bergstra
Research Scholar, David Cox's biological and computer vision group at the Rowland Institute, Harvard University
First author of the Hyperopt paper and co-developer of Theano; former Research Scholar at Harvard
Jared Kaplan
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer; first author of the 2020 scaling-laws paper
Jordan Harrod
Creator and host, Jordan Harrod (YouTube channel)
AI educator who makes YouTube explainers and essays about how AI works, and advises organizations on AI
Joy Buolamwini
Founder and President, Algorithmic Justice League
Founder and President of the Algorithmic Justice League; author of Unmasking AI and a newsletter
Kenneth Li
Researcher, Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab researcher; lead author of Othello world-model and Inference-Time Intervention papers
Matthew Prince
Co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare
Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, whose Workers platform runs AI models and applications at the network edge
Molly White
Writer and publisher, Citation Needed
Researcher and writer of Citation Needed, an independent newsletter on crypto, technology and tech policy
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
Patrick Hsu
Co-founder and Core Investigator, leading the Hsu Lab, Arc Institute
Co-founder and Core Investigator at Arc Institute; leads the Hsu Lab behind the Evo genome models
Paul Graham
Essayist, paulgraham.com
Programmer and essayist at paulgraham.com, author of Lisp books, co-founder of Viaweb and Y Combinator
Piotr Dollár
Research Director, FAIR, Meta (Facebook AI Research)
Research director at Meta's FAIR; co-author of Segment Anything, COCO and Mask R-CNN; SAM 3 project lead
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
Sasha Rush
ML Researcher (Composer series of models), Cursor (Anysphere)
ML researcher; former Cornell and Harvard professor and former Cursor and Hugging Face researcher
Stephen Casper
Assistant Professor; Faculty Affiliate with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (Harvard Kennedy School)
Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor working on AI safeguards, incidents, and governance
Taylor Lorenz
Founder and writer, User Mag
Technology journalist and founder of User Mag, a publication about tech and online culture
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