People in AI

Led research team developing AI platform to detect electrical arcing faults in power grids.

Co-author and colleague who released Robin, an open-source AI agent that proposes existing drugs to treat diseases.

Ali Hatamizadeh

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Pushes back on alignment research claims, noting that ways to teach models rules and human preferences already exist.

Quoted discussing Nvidia's DSX reference design for AI factories achieving zero water consumption through liquid cooling.

Kashani disclosed that Serve Robotics and Uber have differing views on scaling their autonomous delivery fleet and may not renew their partnership.

First engineering hire at Minerva Humanoids robotics company.

Ali Madani

Creator

Air Street Capital

Author of "State of AI Report" in Air Street Capital

Co-author on OpenAI's reinforcement learning research for beneficial model behavior.

Google researcher who co-authored paper on Sleep paradigm for continual learning in language models.

Spoke at UN Security Council stating Africa cannot remain merely a market for AI systems developed elsewhere.

Naeimi co-authored research on the Dion3 optimizer at Microsoft.

Ali Rana

Executive

Director of Product Management, Applied AI at Google

Authored article announcing Google's recognition as Leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Conversational AI Platforms.

Explained Swiss Re's research on autonomous vehicle safety using insurance data framework.

Co-authored guide on the anatomy of effective commerce agents, covering architecture and best practices for Claude-powered shopping agents.

Author of "Nemotron Elastic: Towards Efficient Many-in-One Reasoning LLMs" on arXiv

Taught inference engineering masterclass as Baseten raised significant funding for inference engineering platform.

Testified on behalf of Google at NYC Council hearing, spoke in support of comprehensive federal framework for AI risks.

Co-author of the article announcing EmbeddingGemma

Relatively new Anthropic engineer who built a working prototype of Claude Code CLI graphical interface over one weekend.

Co-authored a blog post on Google Developers Blog about on-device function calling in Google AI Edge Gallery.

Author of "KernelEvolve: Scaling Agentic Kernel Coding for Heterogeneous AI Accelerators at" on arXiv

Alicia Jackson emphasized that RAMMP partners with world-class innovators like Meta to bring frontier AI into assistive robotics.

Referenced in casual introduction about New York City

Community leader and founder of Black Create Connect discussing how AI can enhance rather than replace creator-led work.

OpenAI's former sales leader joins Acrew Capital as general partner and shares insights on AI startup moats and enterprise adoption.

Co-authored the AgentRx framework paper on diagnosing AI agent failures.

Alireza Dadgarnia

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of the GSQ paper on low-precision scalar quantization for LLMs via Gumbel-Softmax Sampling.

Recent PhD graduate sharing insights about the AI industry job search process and interview preparation.

Author of "AIRS-Bench: A Suite of Tasks for Frontier AI Research Science Agents" on arXiv

Led research on using AI algorithms to generate complex vascular networks for 3D-printed organs, making the process 200x faster.

Co-author of the systematic review on AI in art therapy

Praised the autism research study as a watershed moment for autism science and precision medicine.

CEO of cybersecurity AI company Assail quoted expressing concerns about AI-powered hacking capabilities versus human hackers.

Stripe engineer quoted on equipping AI agents with same developer tooling as human engineers.

Aljosa Osep co-authored WorldTrace, a framework for improving long autoregressive video generation through memory management.

Study lead author who developed systematic analysis method for finding fuel-efficient Moon routes.

Noted Tesla could eventually manufacture humanoid robots but has not successfully released Optimus commercially yet.

Author of "Meta's $75B AI Infrastructure Bet: Inside the Biggest Cloud Deals of 2025"

Reported survey findings that 54% of respondents saw AI agents make mistakes in past 90 days, rising to 70% at organizations with 21+ agents.

Author of "The other side of ads in ChatGPT: Advertiser perspective"

Co-authored Harvard report on gender gaps in AI usage, awareness, and representation across 5,400+ adults.

Spoke about GS Group's experience as an early enterprise customer of Graphon AI for analyzing customer movement and safety monitoring.

Alok Bishoyi

Engineer

AI Researcher at Evo

Ported Evo's autoresearch loop to use Anthropic's dynamic workflows in Claude Code for improved long-horizon task execution.

PointFive CEO and co-founder quoted on the company finding waste at the source in cloud and AI infrastructure optimization.

Actively hiring Gen Z with zero experience for generative AI platform used by PepsiCo, Nestlé, and Mars.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Alpay Ariyak

Engineer

Research Engineer at Together AI

Co-led project with experiment design, generated trajectories for training, evaluated DeepSWE, and managed infrastructure.

Alperen Keles

Creator

Author of "LLMs Could Be, But Shouldn't Be Compilers" in alperenkeles.com

Alston Lin

Founder

Founder / CTO at OffDeal

Discussed using Gemini managed agents with environment hooks for automated image verification in investment banking workflows.

Discussing supply chain optimization challenges using AI in enterprise operations.

Althoff Tim

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author on LLM time series forecasting evaluation research.

Introduced David Chalmers at the inaugural Sarah Douglas Lecture on Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence.

Journalist conducting interview with Harvard Medical School researcher about youth mental health AI chatbot use trends and safety concerns.

Alvin Sng

Creator

Software Engineer at Slope

Author of article about stopping use of SDKs in favor of direct API calls for agent debugging.

Author on arXiv paper on unified training for foundation models in a single pass.

Co-authored announcement of Gemini's macOS app with new natural language voice capabilities.

Second author of research study on ChatGPT Health's triage performance, discussing the need to integrate AI tools thoughtfully into medical care.

Leads Volvo's software development and announced partnership with NVIDIA for hands-free autonomous driving technology.

Alxndrtl

Researcher

Byline author of free 110-page book 'Little Book of Reinforcement Learning' teaching RL from basics to DQN, PPO, and AlphaGo.

Alyah Sablan leads Recruiting Operations at Augment Code and co-authored the article on hiring for AI-native engineering.

Won the Olympic gold medal for the United States

Author of "Softchoice Reported 97% Reduction in Meeting Summary Time"

Alyson Shontell

Journalist

Editor In Chief and Chief Content Officer at Fortune

Conducted exclusive interview with Sam Altman about OpenAI's IPO timeline and safety considerations.

Amaan Pirani

Researcher

Google

Contributed critical analysis to cost modeling and feasibility analysis for Project Suncatcher.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

MIT classmate of Truell who co-founded Cursor (then Anysphere) in 2022.

NVIDIA engineer on MARS MLOps team helping research teams build scalable AI training and inference systems.

Fortune journalist who reported on Marc Lore's Wonder robots making 500 bowls per hour.

Authored announcement of Chrome's enhanced autofill powered by Gemini with Personal Intelligence.

McMaster wrote to employees defending the company's decision to sell Spot robots to ICE despite employee petition.

Amanda Pendleton

Executive

Home trends expert at Zillow

Commented on Zillow's Virtual Staging feature explaining how it helps buyers envision themselves in homes.

Author of "Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority" in Google Blog

Co-authored investigation revealing 1,700-member Slack workspace where tech companies shape Trump administration AI health policy.

Argues that traditional hourly billing no longer fits AI-era tech work and proposes hybrid contracts combining base fees, usage charges, and outcome bonuses to align value with effort.

Early-stage consumer fund investor discussing premium valuations for proven AI talent and second-time founders.

Ameet Talwalkar

Engineer

leads Datadog's AI Research Lab at Datadog

Co-author contributing to Datadog's Toto 2.0 time series forecasting foundation model development.

Built SaaStr's AI VP of Marketing (10K) agent and runs close to 30 agents with nearly a million uses, demonstrating agentic marketing at scale.

Amelia Lucas

Journalist

Reporter at CNBC

Reported on Starbucks launching a beta app in ChatGPT for customers to discover new drinks.

Amelia Wattenberger

Creator

Principal Research Engineer at GitHub

Author exploring how AI-assisted coding changes developer workflow and the loss of thinking space when code is generated rather than written.

Broadcom's finance chief who discussed the company's residual value guarantees for AI labs and the economics of enabling major AI companies.

Co-author of arXiv systematic review on AI-generated code bugs.

Amin RJ

Researcher

Analyzed vector database security and cosine similarity vulnerabilities in AI systems, discussing embedding model limitations and poisoning attacks.

Co-author of blog post introducing Delta Weight Sync method for reducing model synchronization payload in async RL training.

Co-author of MultiGen research on visual world models for multiplayer gaming with explicit external memory and user control.

Co-authored announcement of Open Knowledge Format specification.

Hired by Anthropic to lead custom silicon development; previously founded Google's custom-chip program and led TPU business.

Addressing security concerns and monitoring in autonomous system deployments.

Co-authored Microsoft security research on prompt injection vulnerabilities in Semantic Kernel.

Co-authored article on Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) developed by Google.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Amit Jain

Founder

CEO at Luma AI

Announced Ray3, Luma AI's first AI reasoning video model that can evaluate and improve its outputs rather than just translating text to pixels.

Co-author of study showing English training increased manager interactions and knowledge transfer in multinationals.

Amit Khanna

Executive

Senior Vice President and General Manager of Health at Salesforce

SVP and General Manager of Agentforce Health at Salesforce discussing the expanded collaboration with CVS Health for AI-driven call center experiences.

Amit Malewar

Journalist

Founder and CEO of Tech Explorist and Inceptive Mind at Tech Explorist

Author of "Can Ice Really Generate Power? Scientists Say Yes" in Tech Explorist

Professor who worked with Prabhanjan Ananth to solve a quantum cryptography problem using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra.

Singhal declared Google is maniacally focused on reducing friction between users and information, exemplifying optimization mindset.

Amit Taylor

Executive

TrueUp

Provided exclusive data on open engineering roles at Big Tech and top startups.

Co-led study developing cerebellum-inspired memtransistor for energy-efficient AI.

Co-author of research using AI to reconstruct images from fMRI brain scans through Brain-Inspired Transformer approach.

Amitosh Swain

Executive

CodeRabbit

Wrote about context engineering for AI code reviews and how CodeRabbit performs tens of thousands of code reviews daily using carefully engineered context.

Consumer expert who stated that competing definitions of 'human made' are confusing consumers and called for universal definition to build trust.

Discussed national security concerns regarding AI-driven weapons and autonomous systems in military applications.

Wrote a blog post about NVIDIA Dynamo 1.0 and its capabilities for multi-node inference at production scale.

Block's CFO and COO who stated the company uses a model agnostic AI strategy and that open source AI models often develop faster.

Amritansh Raghav discussed how Claude Managed Agents accelerated development of Asana AI Teammates.

Author of "Nvidia, AMD to Give U.S. 15% Cut on AI Chip Sales to China" in The Wall Street Journal

PayPal executive partnering with Anthropic on AI Fluency for Small Business training program.

Veteran of Amazon, Nuro, and Uber; joined Bedrock as VP of operations.

IT analyst praised Cisco's AI assistant architecture and approach as a model for enterprises to safely deploy AI tools.

Co-author of IEEE Spectrum article on AI water usage; leads sustainability initiatives at Microsoft.

Author of LangSmith Sandboxes announcement for secure agent computing environments.

Amy Tam

Investor

Investor at Bloomberg Beta

Co-author of piece on research taste and its portability across domains as code implementation costs collapse.

Discussed the importance of EU AI Act as a global standard and noted transparency requirements already spreading.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Led the TROPECOLNET project that collaborated with Zampetti on developing TropiCam-AI.

Co-author of research on AI infrastructure and local community responses in Pennsylvania.

Founded Oshen in 2022 to build autonomous micro-robots that collect ocean data after realizing ocean data collection was a major gap.

Anamaria-Roberta Hartl

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of KronLSTM paper proposing novel memory update rule for associative matrix memories in language models.

Wrote about major AI hardware advancements in late June from OpenAI, Etched, Amazon, and SambaNova.

Quoted discussing economic constraints and limitations of the brute force approach to AI training with more data

Expressed excitement about bringing 1Password's trusted access management to the new Comet browser.

Ananda Hota

Researcher

Assistant Professor and Director at University of Mumbai

Lead author of a study on discovering an odd radio circle with citizen scientists.

Venture capitalist leading APAC fund focused on Indian Deep Tech startups in AI and semiconductors.

Kicked off the inaugural MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium Symposium, emphasizing the need to ensure collective wisdom keeps pace with advancing generative AI technology.

Author of "OpenAI Plans India Data Center in Major Stargate Expansion" in Bloomberg

Co-author of NitroGen research on generalist gaming agents

Anastasia Obis

Other

DoD reporter at Federal News Network

Author of "U.S. Army Launches AI Program"

Graduate student contributing to bioprinting research.

Founded and leads Mosqitter, a startup using AI-powered mosquito traps with computer vision to identify species and monitor disease risks.

Researcher and CEO of LLM Arena, published extensive research as PhD student while building million-user side project, demonstrates researcher-to-founder transition.

Noted that negative free cash flow was due to growing capital expenditures, almost entirely related to AI spending, with 60% for servers and 40% for data centres.

Anatoli Kopadze

Creator

Writer

Author of viral essay 'Everything you need to know about loops' with 7M views explaining AI loops and their implementation.

Analyzed AI inference cost trends and argued that capability improvements haven't come from rising costs relative to human labor.

Author of the paper on in-context vector arithmetic

Writes about Ken Goldberg's talk on the robot data gap on substack.

André Bardow leads the research group studying how integrating direct air capture into cement production could reduce the industry's climate impact by 78%.

Co-developed research on AI for wildlife protection

Referenced in "GitHub Unveils the Annotation Toolkit to Document Design Intent and Eliminate Preventable Accessibil"

Andrea Hsu

Journalist

Labor and Workplace Correspondent at NPR

Reported on how Rasa Legal uses AI to help people clear criminal records and secure employment.

Andrea Madotto

Researcher

Researcher at Thinking Machines Lab

Former research scientist in Meta's FAIR division focused on multimodal language models, joined Thinking Machines Lab in December.

Author of "OpenAI Collects Public Feedback on Its Model Spec, Releasing the Dataset on Hugg" in OpenAI

Lead developer of TropiCam-AI, an AI model for detecting and identifying tree-dwelling species in tropical forests.

Andrea Zanette

Researcher

Researcher

Author on arXiv paper on unified training for foundation models in a single pass.

Andreas Blattmann

Founder

Co-founder at Black Forest Labs

Co-founder of Black Forest Labs, formerly helped create Stability AI's Stable Diffusion models.

Director of Operations at Rescue Air & Plumbing who implemented Avoca's AI customer service representative and coaching tools, resulting in improved booking rates and promotions for two CSRs into management.

Stated that China currently leads the United States in the early commercialization of humanoid robots.

Led development of RAVEN pipeline for automated exoplanet detection and validation using machine learning.

Teaches a course on agentic knowledge graph construction using Google's Agent Development Kit.

Co-author of the research paper on test-time curricula for reinforcement learning

Andreas Stuhlmüller

Founder

CEO at Elicit

Associated with Elicit's launch of a Research Agent for high-stakes decision support and evidence gathering.

Andreas Terzis

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff/Manager in the Safeguards team at Anthropic

Contributed to Claude Mythos security research on vulnerability discovery.

Fields Medal winner (2006) among signatories expressing urgent concern about AI's threat to mathematical thought and human intellectual work.

Andres Max

Other

Founder, product designer, and engineer at Revelo

States 'A 5-person team in 2026 can ship what a 50-person team shipped in 2016'.

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Research on how U.S. tariffs adjust relative prices between domestic exports and foreign imports

Senior author of the Alzheimer's reversal study; expressed cautious optimism about NAD+ balance restoration as potential treatment.

Byline author of article on publishers suing Google over Gemini AI training on copyrighted books.

Raised $20 million Series B for robotics company building window-cleaning drones and cleaning robots.

Co-founder discussing Beatdapp's partnership with Beatport to detect AI-generated music and protect human creativity.

Author writing about Anthropic IPO wealth creation projections

Founded Runlayer to provide governance and control infrastructure for enterprise AI agent deployment; previously served as Director of AI at Zapier.

Co-authored article about running Gemini 4 Argon unattended on Google codebase optimization.

Commented that AI finding mathematical counterexamples is exactly what he would expect, as it can search through possibilities faster than humans.

Leading sessions on monitoring and securing environments with autonomous systems.

Historical figure used as analogy for how transformative materials like steel shaped past eras, comparing to AI's potential impact today.

Andrew Carroll

Executive

Product Lead at Google Research

Co-authored research on DeepSomatic, an AI tool using convolutional neural networks to identify tumor variants.

Chang discussed how Koa helps healthcare teams manage complex workflows and coordinate information more effectively.

Nuro's COO discussing Houston launch and the company's universal autonomy platform.

Credited with additional reporting on Claude shared chats indexing issue.

Andrew Critch

Researcher

CEO & EECS Research Scientist

Researcher who noted there are multiple distinct alignment problems that must all be solved to reach a good future.

Expert from the Fleming Initiative who comments on the significance of the research and the need for rigorous safety and efficacy testing

Explained Hume AI's approach to understanding tone, emotion and paralinguistic cues in voice AI, solving the 'I'm fine' problem.

Andrew Evers

Journalist

Journalist at CNBC

Co-author of the article about Shield AI's new military drone

Andrew Freedman

Executive

Co-Founder and CEO at Fathom

Signed a public letter calling for safety testers in AI labs.

Credit rating agency official saying rising rates may not significantly impact borrower demand for AI infrastructure.

Legal expert analyzing Flock's AI system design and its implications for police operations.

Andrew Hill

Executive

Corporate Vice President of Surface Product at Microsoft

Microsoft Surface product leader who discussed design priorities of performance, battery life, and display for the Surface Laptop Ultra.

Andrew Ho

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Former OpenAI researcher who left after 8 months, convinced LLMs generalize poorly and predicting $100B will flow into training data.

Andrew Hsu

Engineer

Cofounder & CTO at Speak

Described the shift to coding agents as 'the biggest, most fundamental change in software development since the beginning' and noted his team uses Claude Code to ship features in weeks instead of months.

Andrew Huang

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at xAI

Contributor to SAM 3, Meta's open-source model for tracking objects in video by text description.

Andrew Huberman

Creator

Stanford neurobiologist at Stanford

Host of the Huberman Lab podcast, which was used as training data for a GPT-3 chatbot demonstration.

Author of "Meta's New Smart Glasses Just Leaked"

Author of "First Proof" on arXiv

Senior Economist who described using Claude to pull legal research, read cases, and organize documents for personal review.

AI rater contractor laid off by Google's outsourcing partner GlobalLogic, worked on rating AI outputs and creating prompts for models.

Delivered the Giblin Lecture on the economics of human extinction and existential risk from AI and bioterrorism.

Co-authored with Ronan Farrow a major investigation into OpenAI and Sam Altman's governance for The New Yorker.

Author arguing that open models now provide minimal downside compared to proprietary models like Claude.

Author of "Woolly Mammoths Survived Until Around 1650 BC"

Andrew McNamara

Creator

Shopify

Byline author of article 28944 describing Shopify's GraphQL agent and the continual learning flywheel approach to model optimization.

Andrew Melouney, Vice President for Digital at Woodside Energy, describes the company's approach to building AI systems for industrial operations and the Startup Advisor copilot.

Co-author of Pew study on AI survey accuracy.

Former IBM executive who acknowledged Watson for Oncology faces significant challenges and defended against clinical trial requirements.

Andrew Nusca

Journalist

Editorial Director at FORTUNE Brainstorm

Reported on OpenAI's revenue chief accusing Anthropic of inflating its run-rate figures ahead of both companies' IPO filings.

Byline author reporting on Siri AI beta launch with usage caps, fees, and regional restrictions on Apple's OS 27 platforms.

Andrew Qu

Executive

Chief of Software at Vercel

Discussed agents as new software type requiring different infrastructure including sandboxes and secure code execution.

Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist who trains Watson and openly acknowledged inserting institutional bias into the system.

Conducted detailed experiment comparing Claude Code vs Cursor pricing, finding Claude Code delivers ~5x more capacity per dollar.

Reported on Jack Willis using Claude Opus 5 to decode an Enigma message.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.