People
People from UC San Diego
9 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at University of California San Diego. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only. See also University of California San Diego in the catalog.
Emanuel Todorov
Research and development, Roboti LLC
Roboti LLC researcher whose lab built the MuJoCo physics engine; former UW and UC San Diego professor
Geoffrey Hinton
Emeritus distinguished professor, University of Toronto
2024 Nobel laureate in Physics; University of Toronto emeritus professor and former Google Vice President
Hao Zhang
Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Computer Science and Engineering; leads the Hao AI Lab, University of California San Diego
UC San Diego assistant professor who leads the Hao AI Lab; FastVideo, vLLM and Chatbot Arena co-author
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
Liliang Ren
Member of Technical Staff, Thinking Machines Lab
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; first author of SambaY and Samba
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
Oriol Vinyals
Vice President, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind
Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of sequence-to-sequence learning and the TensorFlow white paper
Peiyuan Zhang
Works at ByteDance (title not stated), ByteDance
First author of the Sliding Tile Attention and VSA papers cited by FastVideo; Hao AI Lab alumnus
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
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