People
People from USC
9 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at University of Southern California. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only.
Abhimanyu Das
Principal Research Scientist, heading work on predictive models for structured data, Google
Google Principal Research Scientist leading structured-data models such as TimesFM; TimesFM paper first author
Ashish Vaswani
CEO, Essential AI
CEO of Essential AI, maker of the open Rnj-1 models; first-listed author of the Transformer paper
Barret Zoph
VP of Research (Post-Training), OpenAI
First author of neural architecture search at Google Brain; earlier VP of Research (Post-Training) at OpenAI
Dani Yogatama
Co-founder and CEO, Reka
Co-founder and CEO of Reka and associate professor of computer science at USC
Emanuel Todorov
Research and development, Roboti LLC
Roboti LLC researcher whose lab built the MuJoCo physics engine; former UW and UC San Diego professor
Ken Goldberg
William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair of Engineering; Distinguished Professor of IEOR and EECS and Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor working on robot grasping and automation; senior author of Dex-Net 2.0
Nanyun (Violet) Peng
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google
Google Senior Staff Research Scientist and UCLA associate professor (on leave) working on creative NLP
Niki Parmar
Listed with Google Research (2017) and Google Brain (2018) affiliations on papers, Google Research and Google Brain
Co-author of the Transformer paper and first-listed author of Image Transformer, both from Google
Swabha Swayamdipta
Gabilan Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi Computer Science; Associate Director, USC Center for AI and Society, University of Southern California
USC Gabilan Assistant Professor and Amazon Scholar; first author of Dataset Cartography
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