People
People from Johns Hopkins
12 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at Johns Hopkins University. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only.
Brandon Duderstadt
Founder, Calcifer Computing
Nomic co-founder and co-author of the GPT4All and Nomic Embed technical reports
George Hotz
Founder, tiny corp
Creator of the open-source tinygrad deep learning framework and founder of tiny corp and comma.ai
Ján Drgoňa
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (since January 2025), Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins associate professor and lead developer of PNNL's NeuroMANCER scientific machine learning library
Jared Kaplan
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer; first author of the 2020 scaling-laws paper
Laura McGill
Laboratories Director (since May 1, 2025), Sandia National Laboratories
Laboratories Director of Sandia National Laboratories since May 2025; systems engineer and NAE member
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
Marques Brownlee
Creator and host, MKBHD
Creator of the MKBHD YouTube channel and co-host of the Waveform tech podcast
Nanyun (Violet) Peng
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google
Google Senior Staff Research Scientist and UCLA associate professor (on leave) working on creative NLP
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
Richard Zhang
Principal Scientist, Adobe Research
Principal Scientist at Adobe Research; first author of the LPIPS perceptual metric and image colorization work
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
Shinji Watanabe
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University; first author of the ESPnet speech processing toolkit
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