People
People from NYU
25 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at New York University. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only. See also New York University in the catalog.
Adina Williams
Research Scientist, Meta (Fundamental AI Research, FAIR)
Research scientist at Meta's FAIR; first author of the MultiNLI corpus and co-author of Llama 2
Amanda Askell
Leads Anthropic's Character work (finetuning and AI alignment), Anthropic
Philosopher who leads Anthropic's Character work; primary author of Claude's constitution
Andreas C. Müller
Principal Research SDE, Gray Systems Lab, Microsoft
Core developer and co-maintainer of scikit-learn; Principal Research SDE at Microsoft
Angjoo Kanazawa
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; leads the KAIR lab, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley EECS associate professor whose lab builds the open-source nerfstudio and gsplat libraries
Denis Yarats
Co-founder and CTO, Perplexity
Co-founder and CTO of Perplexity; first author of DrQ-v2 for reinforcement learning from pixels
Diederik P. Kingma
Research on large-scale machine learning (2024–current), Anthropic
Researcher at Anthropic; first author of the Variational Autoencoder and Adam optimizer papers
Ethan Perez
Researcher, Anthropic
Anthropic safety researcher; co-author of the RAG, red-teaming, and Constitutional Classifiers work
Gilles Louppe
Professor; group leader of the Science with AI Lab (SAIL), Montefiore Institute, University of Liège
Professor at the University of Liège leading the Science with AI Lab; former scikit-learn core developer
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
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
Jason Weston
Research Scientist, Meta (Meta Superintelligence Labs)
Research scientist at Meta; first author of Memory Networks and co-author of ParlAI and Self-Rewarding LMs
Jong Youl Choi
Researcher, Discrete Algorithms Group, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a developer of the HydraGNN graph neural network library
Kara Swisher
Editor-at-large, New York Magazine
Journalist and host of On with Kara Swisher, and co-host of the Pivot podcast
Kyunghyun Cho
Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics; Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, New York University
NYU professor of computer science and data science; co-author of the RNN encoder-decoder and attention papers
Matthew Zeiler
Founder and CEO (as described in Nebius's May 2026 announcement), Clarifai
Clarifai founder named SVP, Research at Nebius in May 2026; author of the ADADELTA paper
Michael Hind
Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research
Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM Research; co-author of AI Fairness 360, AIX360 and FactSheets
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
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
Samuel R. Bowman
Technical AI safety researcher, Anthropic
Technical AI safety researcher at Anthropic; NYU associate professor on leave; co-author of Petri
Shusheng Yang
Ph.D. student at NYU Courant, advised by Prof. Saining Xie, New York University (Courant Institute)
NYU Courant PhD student; first author of Cambrian-S and co-first author of Thinking in Space and Qwen-VL
Soumith Chintala
AI infrastructure, research, and robotics, Thinking Machines
Co-founder of PyTorch, the framework behind ExecuTorch's on-device AI stack
Tom Schaul
Senior staff research scientist; leads a reinforcement learning team, Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind senior staff research scientist and RL team lead; Prioritized Experience Replay author
Yacine Jernite
Leads the ML and Society team, Hugging Face
Leads the ML and Society team at Hugging Face; co-author of the Transformers and StarCoder2 papers
Yann LeCun
Executive Chairman, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs)
Executive Chairman of AMI Labs and NYU professor; former Chief AI Scientist at Meta and co-author of V-JEPA 2
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