People
People from Stanford
90 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at Stanford University. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only. See also Stanford University in the catalog.
Abigail See
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind; first author of the pointer-generator summarization paper
Abubakar Abid
Machine learning team lead, working on Gradio, Hugging Face
Co-founder of the Gradio library and machine learning team lead at Hugging Face
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
Andrej Karpathy
Research scientist and founding member (2015–2017); later built a team working on midtraining and synthetic data generation (2023–2024), OpenAI
Wrote llama2.c, a dependency-free C program for running Llama 2 models on a personal computer
Andrew Ng
Founder, DeepLearning.AI
Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Stanford adjunct professor, and founding lead of the Google Brain team
Arjun Desai
Co-founder, Cartesia
Co-founder of Cartesia; co-author of Llamba, distilled recurrent language models
Awni Hannun
Member of the Technical Staff, Anthropic
Co-creator of MLX, an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon
Azalia Mirhoseini
Assistant Professor of Computer Science; directs the Scaling Intelligence lab, Stanford University
Stanford assistant professor directing Scaling Intelligence; co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence
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
Brandon Yang
Co-founder, Cartesia
Co-founder of Cartesia; works on systems for machine learning, previously at Google Brain
Bret Taylor
Co-founder, Sierra
Co-founder of Sierra, which builds customer-facing AI agents; former Salesforce co-CEO and Facebook CTO
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
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
Ce Zhang
Founder & CTO, Together AI
Founder and CTO of Together AI; Neubauer Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Chicago
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
Chip Huyen
ML tooling; core developer of NeMo, NVIDIA
Writer on AI system design; former NeMo core developer at NVIDIA and Stanford ML systems instructor
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
Christopher Ré
Professor, Department of Computer Science (Stanford AI Lab, CRFM, Machine Learning Group), Stanford University
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of FlashAttention, Hyena and RedPajama; Together AI founder
Clément Delangue
Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face
Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, whose Hub distributes open models and the libraries used to run them
Dan Jurafsky
Reynolds Professor in Humanities; Professor of Linguistics; Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science; co-author of Speech and Language Processing
Danqi Chen
Associate Professor of Computer Science; co-lead, Princeton NLP Group; associate director, Princeton Language and Intelligence, Princeton University
Princeton associate professor co-leading the Princeton NLP Group; co-author of RoBERTa and SimCSE
Daphne Koller
Founder & CEO, Board Member, insitro
Founder and CEO of insitro, Coursera co-founder, and Stanford adjunct professor of computer science
Denny Britz
Listed with a Google Brain affiliation on the 2017 NMT architecture paper, Google Brain
First-listed author of a 2017 Google Brain study of NMT architectures; contributor to its TensorFlow framework
Dmitri Dolgov
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Waymo
Co-CEO of Waymo and a founder of the Google self-driving car project; formerly Waymo's CTO
Douwe Kiela
Researcher, Google DeepMind
Researcher at Google DeepMind; co-founder and former CEO of Contextual AI; co-author of the RAG paper
Edward Yang
Research Engineer, Meta
PyTorch core maintainer and co-author of the PyTorch and PyTorch 2 papers; research engineer at Meta
Emily M. Bender
Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director, Computational Linguistics Laboratory, University of Washington
University of Washington linguistics professor; developer of the LinGO Grammar Matrix and data statements
Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft
Chief Scientific Officer of Microsoft and former director of Microsoft Research
Eric Mitchell
Co-lead of the Post-training Frontiers team (with Yann Dubois), OpenAI
Co-lead of OpenAI's Post-training Frontiers team; co-author of Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)
Fei-Fei Li
Co-founder/CEO, World Labs
Co-founder and CEO of World Labs, Stanford Sequoia Professor, and principal investigator of ImageNet
Garyk Brixi
Researcher training genome language models in the EvoDesign Lab, Stanford University (EvoDesign Lab) and Arc Institute
First-listed author of Evo 2, the genome language model from Arc Institute and Stanford
George Halal
Machine learning software engineer, Google
Co-author of Contextual AI's open Reranker v2 models; machine learning software engineer at Google
Grant Sanderson
Author and math educator, 3Blue1Brown
Math educator behind 3Blue1Brown, a YouTube channel explaining math visually, and the Manim engine
Ian Buck
Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing, NVIDIA
Vice president of hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA; described by NVIDIA as the inventor of CUDA
Ian Goodfellow
Principal Scientist (as listed in 2023), Google DeepMind
First author of the Generative Adversarial Networks paper and co-author of the Deep Learning textbook
Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc.; co-author of the CLIP, Whisper and GPT-3 papers at OpenAI
Jack Clark
Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Head of Public Benefit; writes the Import AI newsletter
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; first author of the 2015 paper that introduced diffusion models
Jiaming Song
Chief Scientist, Luma AI
Creator of DDIM; former Chief Scientist at Luma AI and former research scientist at NVIDIA Research
Jiaxuan You
Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science; leads U Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
UIUC assistant professor who leads U Lab, the group that maintains the LLMRouter routing library
Jim Fan
Senior Research Scientist and Lead of the AI Agents Initiative; co-lead of the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group, with Yuke Zhu, NVIDIA
Co-leads NVIDIA's GEAR embodied-agents group; co-author of GR00T N1, Voyager and Eureka
Jitendra Malik
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley; VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon's FAR lab
John Duchi
Associate Professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Stanford associate professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering; first author of the Adagrad paper
John Yang
Computer Science PhD student, Stanford University
Stanford PhD student; creator of SWE-bench and SWE-agent and senior author of the SWE-sweep benchmark
Kai Fronsdal
Research Engineer (joined 2026), Meridian Labs
Research engineer at Meridian Labs and lead author of Petri, the open-source alignment auditing tool
Karan Goel
CEO and Founder, Cartesia
CEO and founder of Cartesia; co-author of the S4 and SaShiMi state space model papers
Karen Livescu
Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Professor at TTI-Chicago working on speech and language processing; former MIT EECS post-doctoral lecturer
Kristina Toutanova
Research scientist, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind and University of Washington affiliate faculty; co-author of BERT
Kunle Olukotun
Co-founder and Chief Technologist, SambaNova
Co-founder and Chief Technologist of SambaNova; Cadence Design Professor at Stanford University
Martín Abadi
At Google since November 2014, Google
At Google since 2014; first author of the TensorFlow papers; emeritus at UC Santa Cruz
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 J. Black
Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Meshcapade
Co-author of the SMPL-X body model; co-founder of Body Labs; named a Distinguished Amazon Scholar in 2017
Michele Catasta
President (joined as VP of AI in 2023), Replit
President of Replit, where Catasta led the Replit Agent projects; former Google X applied research head
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
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
Percy Liang
Professor of Computer Science (and courtesy in Statistics); Director, Center for Research on Foundation Models, Stanford University
Stanford professor and director of CRFM; creator of Marin, first author of HELM, Together AI founder
Peter Hawkins
JAX (GitHub bio "JAX @ Google"), Google
Named author of JAX, the Python library for accelerator-oriented array computation
Peter Mattson
Founder, President and board member, MLCommons
Founder and President of MLCommons and founding General Chair of MLPerf; senior staff engineer at Google
Piero Molino
CEO and Co-founder, Studio Atelico
Creator of the Ludwig declarative deep learning framework; CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico
Pieter Abbeel
Professor, Jim Gray Chair of Engineering; Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab; Co-Director of BAIR, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley professor and Robot Learning Lab director; Amazon Scholar; former OpenAI research scientist
Quoc Le
Listed with Google and Google Brain affiliations on 2014–2017 papers, Google Brain
Co-author of the sequence-to-sequence, GNMT, and neural architecture search papers at Google
Richard Sutton
Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science, University of Alberta
University of Alberta professor of computing science; co-founded Google DeepMind Alberta in 2017
Rishi Bommasani
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford University
Senior Research Scholar at Stanford HAI; HELM co-author and first author of the foundation models report
Robert Tibshirani
Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Statistics, Stanford University
Stanford statistician; co-author of glmnet, Least Angle Regression and The Elements of Statistical Learning
Rohan Taori
Researcher on the pretraining team, Anthropic
Pretraining researcher at Anthropic; co-author of Stanford Alpaca, AlpacaFarm and AlpacaEval
Roy Frostig
Research scientist, Google DeepMind
Co-author and core developer of JAX; research scientist at Google DeepMind
Ruchir Puri
Chief Scientist, IBM Research; IBM Fellow; Vice President, IBM Technology & Technical Community, IBM Research
Chief Scientist of IBM Research and IBM Fellow; first author of the Project CodeNet dataset paper
Sam McCandlish
Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Architect; co-led the 2020 scaling-laws research at OpenAI
Samuel R. Bowman
Technical AI safety researcher, Anthropic
Technical AI safety researcher at Anthropic; NYU associate professor on leave; co-author of Petri
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
Sergey Levine
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley associate professor working on robot learning; co-author of the π0 robot foundation model paper
Shengjia Zhao
Chief Scientist for the new lab effort (as stated by Meta in July 2025), Meta Superintelligence Labs
Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs; earlier a contributor to GPT-4 and OpenAI o1
Shixiang Shane Gu
Senior Staff Research Scientist (Gemini Thinking team), Google DeepMind
Senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini; co-author of Gumbel-Softmax and zero-shot CoT
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
Silvana Konermann
Co-founder, Executive Director and Core Investigator, leading the Konermann Lab, Arc Institute
Co-founder and Executive Director of Arc Institute; Core Investigator leading the Konermann Lab
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
Stefano Ermon
CEO, Inception
CEO of Inception, developer of Mercury diffusion LLMs; Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
Stephen K. Streiffer
Laboratory Director (since October 2023), Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory; former interim director of SLAC and Argonne deputy director
Stuart Russell
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Computational Precision Health, Emeritus; Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science; co-author of AI, A Modern Approach
Tatsunori Hashimoto
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Stanford assistant professor; advisor on Stanford Alpaca, HELM co-author, and CS336 instructor
Thomas Kurian
CEO, Google Cloud, Google Cloud
CEO of Google Cloud, which offers Gemini Enterprise and Google's agent platform to businesses
Timnit Gebru
Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
Founder and executive director of DAIR; first author of Datasheets for Datasets
Trevor Hastie
The John A. Overdeck Professor, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Emeritus, Stanford University
Maintainer of the glmnet package and co-author of The Elements of Statistical Learning; Stanford emeritus
Tri Dao
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, leading the Dao AI Lab, Princeton University
First author of FlashAttention and co-author of Mamba; Princeton professor and Together AI co-founder
Yang Song
Research Principal, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
Research Principal at Meta Superintelligence Labs; first author of the score SDE and consistency models papers
Yejin Choi
Dieter Schwarz Foundation Professor of Computer Science; Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI, Stanford University
Stanford professor and HAI Senior Fellow; formerly at NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and Ai2
Ying Sheng
Officer, LMSYS
SGLang co-author and codeowner; first author of FlexGen, for running large models on a single GPU
Yoav Shoham
Chairman & Co-Founder, AI21 Labs
Co-founder and chairman of AI21 Labs; professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford
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
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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