People
People from Toronto
18 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at University of Toronto. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only.
Abdelrahman Mohamed
Research scientist at FAIR (joined September 2018), Facebook AI Research (Meta)
Speech researcher; co-author of wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT at Facebook AI Research
Aidan Gomez
Co-founder and CEO, Cohere
Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of the Transformer paper, written while at Google Brain
Alex Graves
Author affiliated with Google DeepMind on the 2016 Nature paper on the differentiable neural computer, Google DeepMind
First author of Neural Turing Machines and of the Google DeepMind differentiable neural computer paper
Colin Raffel
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
University of Toronto associate professor and Hugging Face faculty researcher; first author of the T5 paper
David Ha
Co-Founder & CEO, Sakana AI
Co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI; former Google research scientist and co-author of World Models
Fartash Faghri
Machine learning researcher, Apple Machine Learning Research, Apple
Machine learning researcher at Apple Machine Learning Research; co-author of FastVLM and MobileCLIP
Geoffrey Hinton
Emeritus distinguished professor, University of Toronto
2024 Nobel laureate in Physics; University of Toronto emeritus professor and former Google Vice President
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
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
Reynold Xin
Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Databricks
Co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks; Apache Spark committer and first author of Shark and GraphX
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
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
UPMC Professor of Computer Science, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
UPMC Professor of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department; co-author of dropout
Sanja Fidler
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
University of Toronto associate professor, Vector Institute co-founder and NVIDIA VP of AI Research
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
Simon Suo
Co-founder, LlamaIndex
Co-founder of LlamaIndex; former research scientist at Uber ATG working on self-driving
Torsten Scholak
Leads the Foundation Model Lab at ServiceNow Research; co-founder of the SLAM initiative, ServiceNow
Leads the Foundation Model Lab at ServiceNow Research; technical co-lead of the Apriel open-weight models
Volodymyr Mnih
Research scientist, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind; first author of the deep Q-network (DQN) and A3C 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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