People
People from Waterloo
6 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at University of Waterloo. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only.
Adam Fourney
Senior Principal Researcher, Human-AI eXperiences (HAX) group, AI Frontiers, Microsoft Research
Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research; author of MarkItDown and first author of Magentic-One
James Bergstra
Research Scholar, David Cox's biological and computer vision group at the Rowland Institute, Harvard University
First author of the Hyperopt paper and co-developer of Theano; former Research Scholar at Harvard
Joelle Pineau
Chief AI Officer, Cohere
Chief AI Officer at Cohere and McGill professor; led Meta's FAIR research team from 2017 to 2025
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
Matei Zaharia
Associate Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Started Apache Spark, helped develop MLflow and co-authored DSPy; UC Berkeley professor and Databricks CTO
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
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