People
People from MIT
40 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only. See also Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the catalog.
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
Amnon Shashua
Co-founder, President and CEO, Mobileye
Co-founder, president and CEO of Mobileye; Sachs Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University
Andrew Ng
Founder, DeepLearning.AI
Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Stanford adjunct professor, and founding lead of the Google Brain team
Bill Dally
Chief scientist and senior vice president of NVIDIA Research, NVIDIA
Chief scientist and SVP of Research at NVIDIA; co-author of Deep Compression; former Stanford CS chair
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
Chelsea Finn
Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Stanford assistant professor who runs the IRIS lab; co-founder of Physical Intelligence and co-author of π0
Darío Gil
Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy; former IBM SVP and Director of Research
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 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
Emanuel Todorov
Research and development, Roboti LLC
Roboti LLC researcher whose lab built the MuJoCo physics engine; former UW and UC San Diego professor
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
Jacob Andreas
Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS and CSAIL)
MIT associate professor in EECS and CSAIL studying language learning and how neural models represent meaning
James Braza
EECS PhD student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second author of FutureHouse's ether0 chemistry model and contributor to its open-source agent tooling
Jonathan Frankle
Chief AI Scientist, Databricks
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks; first author of the lottery ticket hypothesis paper; MosaicML founding team
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
Josef Sivic
Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence; head of the IMPACT group, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC), Czech Technical University
Professor at CIIRC, Czech Technical University, and head of the IMPACT group; consults for Adobe Research
Joy Buolamwini
Founder and President, Algorithmic Justice League
Founder and President of the Algorithmic Justice League; author of Unmasking AI and a newsletter
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
Kaiming He
Associate Professor with tenure, Department of EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First author of ResNet, Mask R-CNN and MAE; MIT associate professor and part-time scientist at Google DeepMind
Karen Hao
Reporter and author, Freelance journalist
Reporter covering artificial intelligence and author of Empire of AI
Karen Livescu
Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Professor at TTI-Chicago working on speech and language processing; former MIT EECS post-doctoral lecturer
Krste Asanović
Co-founder and Chief Architect, SiFive
Co-founder and Chief Architect of SiFive; RISC-V co-creator and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus
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
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
Marc Raibert
Founder and Executive Director, Robotics and AI Institute
Founder of Boston Dynamics and executive director of the Robotics and AI Institute
Michael Carbin
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Head, Programming Systems Group (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT associate professor heading the Programming Systems Group; co-author of the lottery ticket hypothesis
Michael Collins
Research scientist, Google
Natural language processing researcher and research scientist at Google; former MIT faculty member
Michael I. Jordan
Directeur de Recherche, Inria and École Normale Supérieure
Co-author of the Ray and latent Dirichlet allocation papers; UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Miika Aittala
Member of NVIDIA Research (joined November 2019), NVIDIA Research
Member of NVIDIA Research; co-author of the StyleGAN3, EDM, and EDM2 generative model papers
Nicholas Harris
Founder and CEO, Lightmatter
Founder and CEO of Lightmatter, which builds photonic interconnects for AI infrastructure
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
Phillip Isola
Associate Professor in EECS; member of CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS and CSAIL)
MIT associate professor in EECS; first author of pix2pix and co-author of Foundations of Computer Vision
Ramin Hasani
Co-founder and CEO, Liquid AI
Co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI; first author of the Liquid Time-constant Networks paper
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
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
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
Tye Brady
Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics, Amazon Robotics (Amazon)
Chief Technologist of Amazon Robotics
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