People in AI

Evan Bacon

Engineer

Developer at Expo

Creator of serve-sim tool for hosting iOS simulators for AI coding agents and developer tools.

US ice dancer who performed with traditional Lenny Kravitz medley at Olympics.

Evan Cater

Founder

Co-founder at Convogo

Co-founded Convogo and joined OpenAI as part of the acqui-hire to work on AI cloud efforts.

Evan Conrad

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at SF Compute

Guest arguing that credit constraints, not chips or power, are the bottleneck in AI compute; discusses long-term contracts and market dynamics.

Evan Drellich

Journalist

Senior Writer at The Athletic

Contributed to report on MLB's ban of generative AI use on dugout iPads.

Evan Goldberg, founder and executive vice president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed integrating Gemini models to help customers improve visibility and automate work within NetSuite.

Evan Kotsovinos

Executive

Google

Co-author of the Google Blog article about CodeMender

Evan Ochsner

Journalist

Journalist

Byline author of article discussing AI adoption in the legal sector and how it serves as a bellwether for AI in white-collar work.

Evan Otero

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

DeepMind researcher who posted speculation that Ox Alpha reasoning model might be a stealth Gemini Pro release.

Evan Peña

Engineer

Chief Offensive Security Officer at Armadin

Co-founder of Armadin, serves as chief offensive security officer.

Author of "How Benchmaxxed is gpt-oss-120b?" in cmart.blog

Canada's AI minister who called in OpenAI executives for questioning and held a call with Sam Altman regarding the Tumbler Ridge shooting.

Author of "Reinforcement Learning on Pretraining Data" on arXiv

Former Apple industrial design head now at OpenAI on AI hardware projects.

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Everett Hildenbrandt

Engineer

CEO at Runtime Verification

Everett Hildenbrandt describes using LLMs and formal methods to find and verify Linux kernel bugs, predicting formal verification will become standard.

Stated Europe must 'kick-start' robotics development to close gap with China; predicted humanoids will be indistinguishable from humans within five years.

Co-author of research on human lifespan limits showing neurons and cardiomyocytes are the main limiting factors in longevity.

Evie Breese

Journalist

UK Reporting Fellow at Tech Policy Press

Author reporting on UK's AI minister's arguments against new frontier AI law and UK government's approach to AI regulation.

Eyal Sela

Other

Director of Threat Intelligence at Gambit Security

Discussed how AI agents like Cursor can accelerate hacking by 30-50% and noted instances where agents refused harmful requests.

Co-author of article on model routing systems and their optimization challenges.

Contributed to the reporting of Daimler Truck's investor search for Torc Robotics

Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez

Creator

Computational social scientist at TU Dresden (SynoSys) and Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Author of "Massive Study on 740,000 Hours of Human Speech"

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security.

Co-authored a paper showing AI mistranslations in Lean proof checking, including errors in OpenAI's announced Navier-Stokes proof.

Fabian Hedin

Founder

Co-founder at Lovable

Co-founder of Lovable vibe-coding platform, announced the company crossed $600 million ARR with adoption across two-thirds of Fortune 500.

Expressed skepticism about whether current AI-attributed layoffs reflect genuine efficiency gains or are used as justification for workforce reductions.

Fabio Nonato de Paula

Engineer

AWS

Co-author of AWS Velocity Labs release of Strands Decider 2B open-source decision model.

Author of article on deepfakes in 2026 elections and source certification as a solution to verify authentic content.

Created MicroQuickJS which Simon Willison vibe-ported into a JavaScript interpreter in Python.

CEO and co-founder of Xoople who announced the company's $130 million Series B funding round and described the satellite constellation's data quality as two orders of magnitude better than existing systems.

Fadel Adib

Researcher

Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cartesian

Associate professor in EECS and director of Signal Kinetics group; senior author on papers about using generative AI to understand wireless reflections for robot vision.

Head of investments at Prosus Group, which led Alan's €480M funding round for AI-driven prevention insurance.

Fahim Tajwar

Researcher

Researcher

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

Faizan Ali co-authored a walkthrough for Semrush's Model Context Protocol integration with Claude for website auditing.

Author of "Analyzing Visual Attention in VLMs" on arXiv

Fan Nie

Researcher

Computer Science PhD student at Stanford University

Author of "DSGym: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating and Training Data Science Agents" on arXiv

Co-authored the SandMLE research paper on training ML engineering agents.

Conducted investigation and interviews with data labelers in China and Australia about precarious working conditions in AI training.

Fan-Yun Sun

Founder

CEO & Co-Founder at Moonlake AI

Co-founding Moonlake to build latent World Models.

Cao co-authored research on multimodal model evaluation and the gap between actual visual understanding and reported capabilities.

Co-author of paper on malicious intermediary attacks on LLM supply chain.

Co-senior author of the stretchable computing patch study focused on wearable and on-body computing systems.

Co-author from NTU and I2R contributing to reasoning survey

Fangneng Zhan

Researcher

Researcher at Noiz.ai

Co-author on Helix World research.

Fangrui Huang

Researcher

Researcher at Multiple Universities

Co-authored study on AI agent skills demonstrating that skills stabilize execution rather than inject missing facts.

Contributor to the EVA voice agent evaluation framework.

Founded Cognichip to use AI to accelerate chip design, claiming ability to reduce development costs by 75% and timelines by more than half.

Faraón Llorens is a co-author of a research article examining the impact of generative AI on education.

Created an open-source PyTorch guide for training a 13M parameter LLM on a single GPU, looking for PhD position in AI.

Founder of HeyClicky/Clicky who previously built and shut down buildspace with $10M funding, now building AI cursor assistant in Y Combinator; his viral demo got 3M views and total content passed 15M views.

Documented mental health struggles and substance abuse issues among Kenyan data workers at Sama.

Catholic clergy member with computer science background who reviewed Claude's constitution

Shared a workflow for managing a fleet of AI agents using coordinators and plans in a Markdown-based system.

Teaches 'AI & Human Cognition' and emphasizes that only humans can solve human problems and create truly innovative solutions.

Contributed engineering work on the scenario explorer.

Provided feedback on Naomi Saphra's essay on AI's impact on trust and communication.

Federica Nicolardi described the virtually unwrapped Herculaneum scroll as marking a transformational shift for researchers studying ancient texts.

Federico Barbero

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-author of research on perplexity limitations showing that increased model confidence must be accompanied by commensurate accuracy gains.

Federico Battiston

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Central European University

Co-author on research studying collective dynamics and success across domains

Co-author on Kumo Relational foundation model for relational databases.

Federico Musciotto

Researcher

Co-author on research studying collective dynamics and success across domains

External collaborator on Aletheia mathematical research agent

Collaborated closely on defining the brand identity for NotebookLM.

Author of "Autoregressive Flows for Image Generation" on arXiv

Lead author on WavFlow audio generation research from Meta AI.

Directed the 'Subway' video demo for Luma AI Ray3

Authored technical documentation on the fx adapter for the AI SDK's HarnessAgent that now runs on the host using libfx.

Economist arguing that as AI becomes capable at generating solutions, problem identification and formulation become the scarcer and more valuable skill.

Charted path forward for junior engineers with the principle that hunger beats tenure.

Warned that AI could discover exploitable weaknesses in legislation by searching statutory language at unprecedented scale.

Author of "WHO Debates Global AI Regulation Amid 'Data Sovereignty' Clash"

Co-founder of Poke AI agent startup.

Co-author of the paper on Scalable In-context Ranking with Generative Models

Feng Li

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

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

Co-author of paper on malicious intermediary attacks on LLM supply chain.

Byline author credited for the Personal Brain OS article.

UniX AI CEO discussing global expansion into Singapore and India, IPO timing, and impact of US chip export restrictions.

Fereshteh Mahvar

Engineer

Software Engineer at Google Research

Co-announced the release of MedGemma 1.5 for medical imaging and MedASR for medical speech-to-text.

Leader of Intercom's 60-person AI group responsible for developing the Apex model that powers Fin customer service agent.

Reported on German court ruling that Google is liable for false AI-generated claims in search overviews.

Fernando Alvarez

Executive

Chief Strategy and Development Officer at Capgemini

Chief strategy and development officer at Capgemini discussing the complexity of scaling Frontier technology and the need for collaborative approach.

Fernando Fernandes Neto

Engineer

Hugging Face Contributor at Hugging Face

Byline author covering Liquid AI's CPU-friendly long-context encoders.

Co-author of seminal 1987 AI book cited on the underspecification problem in human language and AI understanding.

Fernando Rosas

Researcher

Researcher at Imperial College London

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

Co-author of the technical analysis of the LiteLLM supply chain compromise.

Community member from Belgium who shared AI workflow for personal recommendation engine and optimization approaches.

Commented on the autism research study as providing the most systematic protein-level view of autism risk to date.

Acknowledged for contribution to agentic video understanding research.

Discussed challenges in quantifying automated bot traffic across the internet using user-agent strings.

Finn Mallery

Creator

Creator

Byline author arguing that 2026 is an optimal window for solo founders to build companies using AI tools for design, development, and operations.

CEO of General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup that secured a $400 million loan for inference-specific chip infrastructure.

Spoke at Code w/ Claude SF 2026 about how agentic coding changed engineering processes and team structures.

Fiona Strens

Researcher

Professor at University of Lincoln

Leads the university's centre for defence and security artificial intelligence and discussed applying AI from food production industries to defense problems.

Author of "Contemplative Artificial Intelligence" on arXiv

Technology leader advising CIOs on preparing for higher AI subscription fees and usage-based pricing models.

Fitsum Reda

Researcher

NVIDIA

Lead author of Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower paper on diffusion language modeling.

Flavio Schneider

Researcher

Researcher at ElevenLabs

Researcher at ElevenLabs who contributed to developing Cue, the forced alignment model.

CEO of Runware detailing plans to scale production of modular AI data centers to 30 megawatts per day by 2028.

Taking over many of Paul Meade's responsibilities for Vision Pro and smart glasses product design at Apple.

Co-authored study on the N,K trade-off in reproducible ML evaluation at Google Research.

Flo Crivello

Founder

Founder & CEO at Lindy

Reported that Lindy moved 100% of traffic from Claude to DeepSeek, saving millions of dollars.

Explained that China has a mature AR glasses ecosystem and companies launch products earlier and iterate faster.

Florian Douetteau

Executive

Co-founder and CEO at Dataiku

CEO of Dataiku noting that access restrictions to Anthropic models have prompted enterprises to adopt router-based approaches for model flexibility.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Principal at Serena VC firm that led Koyeb's seed round, quoted on sovereign AI infrastructure in Europe.

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

Forrest Chang

Engineer

Developer at CGI

Developer who transformed Andrej Karpathy's complaints about AI coding agents into four rules in a CLAUDE.md file, pushing accuracy from 65% to 94%.

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

AI researcher who flagged the VibeThinker-3B paper early and described the training approach on X.

Francesco Capuano

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Co-author of the robot learning tutorial paper

Argonne scientist collaborating on the AI imaging defect detection research

Francesco Zuppichini

Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer at E2B

Instructor for DeepLearning.AI course on building coding agents with safe code execution.

Francessca Vasquez

Executive

Vice President of Frontier AI Engineering and Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Announced AWS's $1B Forward Deployed Engineering organization embedding engineers in customer teams.

Quoted on AI skills opening new doors and the importance of combining technical expertise with human strengths like collaboration and leadership.

Urged companies to build security into AI strategy from day one, warning about shadow AI and agents accessing forgotten data sources.

Political scientist and author who changed his mind on AI risk after recent incidents like Anthropic's Mythos model and Hugging Face incident; now favors regulation and slowdown.

Francisco C. Robles Hernandez provided mechanical engineering expertise for the MyoStep exoskeleton development.

Co-author of article exploring specialization in AI systems based on optimization theory and machine learning.

Co-author of study demonstrating CLI agents are 5-28x cheaper than MCP across seven scaffolds.

Executive at Avery Dennison announcing $75M investment in Wiliot and expansion of Physical AI and BLE technology.

Francisco Velasquez

Journalist

Business Reporter at BBC News

Author of article about Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face.

Franck Abe

Other

Global CEO at UHG-Tech Ltd

Provided commentary on Google ADK and memory consolidation, raising concerns about compliance challenges with continuous agent autonomy.

Co-author of guide on governing AI agents at scale in enterprises.

Member of Super Intelligence Task Force.

Adobe's Lead Independent Director appointed to chair the special committee directing the CEO succession process.

MLPerf Inference co-chair who noted that the v6.1 benchmark results show performance improvements across diverse hardware and architectural advances.

Co-coined the term 'illusion of explanatory depth' with Rozenblit, researching cognitive biases in knowledge perception.

His work on risk vs. uncertainty distinction is quoted to frame the article's conceptual foundation

Created the Perceptron in 1957, the first neural network assembled from motors, wires, and photocells.

Referenced as comparable cultural phenomenon to Elvis in previous decade

COO discussing the gap between enterprise recognition of agentic AI risk and actual security budget allocation.

Credited as part of the team that demonstrated living human neurons playing DOOM on the CL1 microchip device.

Author of 'Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are', cited for animal cognition research.

Franz Zenhofer created bigarrow, a macOS CLI tool that helps AI coding agents point to UI elements like Allow buttons for human confirmation.

Fraser Greenlee

Researcher

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Co-author on arXiv paper on Latent Sparse Attention.

Led investigation into fake GitHub stars by purchasing stars from vendors and analyzing the phenomenon; acknowledged being preoccupied with GitHub stars before fundraising.

Author of 'The Mythical Man-Month' (1975), cited for the 'chief programmer' concept

Jack's father who had Huntington's disease, died at age 54 in 2016 after requiring 24/7 palliative care.

UC Berkeley researcher and CTO of XDOF, co-founded the robotics data startup with Philipp Wu and led GELLO teleoperation project.

Media scholar who published 2018 paper analyzing Maker Movement ideology through lens of Western Frontier theology and Puritanism

Legendary venture capitalist who started blogging in 2003 and credits his writing with helping him win deals and hone investment judgment.

Quoted as saying readers access human-made art because they know there's a human behind it and being fooled by AI is a con.

Created the IDM-VTON Hugging Face Space that is used as the core virtual try-on model in the AI shopping assistant

Early 20th century scientific management theorist who proposed studying workers like machines.

Historical mechanical engineer who pioneered scientific management in the 1880s, referenced as conceptual foundation for 'New Taylorism' thesis

Manages Firefox Application Security team and contributes to web security standards.

Reddit CISO discussing AI and machine learning in security operations on Dark Reading podcast.

Graduate student working on 3D bioprinting project.

Fredrika Lindh

Creator

Cursor

Co-author of blog post introducing Cursor Projects feature for agent-based software development.

Developer and Unity tool maker who prototyped a rotating-Tetris game and saw it cloned by AI-assisted developers within days of posting.

Friedrich Merz

Policy

Federal Chancellor at Germany

Attended G7 summit discussing international AI standards.

Maintains Crypto Cellar website and validated the Enigma decryption solutions, noting GPT-6 Astra behaved like a professional cryptanalyst.

Signed IDAIS statements demanding binding frontier rules including registration and safety cases before model release.

Co-author of research on few-step generation via data-space iteration.

Co-author of CodeMidas paper on scaling agentic coding RL environments.

Genome editing researcher and early adopter of FutureHouse's Kosmos platform who advocates trusting but verifying AI outputs.

Co-authored analysis of threat actor leveraging Gemini CLI for botnet command-and-control.

Author of "From Tools to Teammates: Navigating the New Human-AI Relationship" in Upwork

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's security initiatives.

Described Workday's Agent Passport system for vetting agents and the challenge of determining liability for agent misbehavior.

Oppira co-founder published a guide on September 28 that maps customer objections to pages for their Objection Finder product.

Consumer advocacy group president who explains the landmark precedent that companies cannot hide behind chatbots for their actions.

Published a deep dive analysis of the exposed Claude Code source, warning developers to check their build pipelines.

Gabriel Aul

Executive

Metaverse Leader at Meta

Co-wrote memo stating the Phoenix release delay would provide breathing room to get details right and deliver a polished experience.

Gabriel Dehan

Engineer

Active Contributor at Pennylane

Active contributor to LEANN open-source project.

Gabriel Goh

Engineer

Research Lead at OpenAI

Research Lead for GPT-Image-1.5 project at OpenAI.

Gabriel Hubert

Founder

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Dust

Founded Dust, a multiplayer AI platform for human-agent collaboration in enterprises.

Co-founder and CEO of Primer announcing $100 million Series C funding for AI-powered payment infrastructure.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Oxford PhD and CEO who claims he gave AI control of a custom motorized surgery rig to perform autonomous brain surgery on an epileptic mouse to reduce seizures.

Co-authored article on GPU management and utilization optimization for enterprise AI infrastructure.

Byline author of paper on i1 text-to-image diffusion model with controlled experiments.

Byline author who wrote about GenAI enabling live-action movie production like concerts with AI post-production tools.

Gabriel Synnaeve

Researcher

Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-author on scaling test-time compute for long-horizon agents.

Law professor points out that three bills on AI liability are already moving through legislatures.

Stated that DuckDuckGo is positioning itself as alternative to Google's AI-heavy search, allowing users to opt out of AI features.

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Gabriele Cirulli

Creator

Game Developer

Created the game 2048 inspired by 1024; later faced accusations of copying indie game Threes! but maintains he was inspired rather than copying.

Gabriele Corso

Researcher

Co-founder and CEO at Boltz

Co-developed DiffDock, a generative AI model that predicted how drug molecules bind to bacterial proteins to discover enterololin antibiotic.

Participated in experiment and discussion about using AI chatbots to help managers with decision-making and strategy.

Co-author of research examining pro-female bias in LLM-assisted recruitment across different contexts.

Coauthor of BCG study on AI-driven cognitive fatigue in the workplace.

Core contributor to the EVA voice agent evaluation framework.

Gadi Ben-Zvi

Executive

AI Platform and Products Lead at Eli Lilly and Company

Left fintech startup after acquisition to lead AI platform and products at Eli Lilly, applying AI to drug discovery.

Gadjo Sevilla

Journalist

Author of "Google's on-device AI strategy could redefine Android's dominance"

Co-authored article about Claude Managed Agents and the evolution of agentic surfaces for building production-grade agents.

Discussed education in the AI era alongside Amjad Masad on the a16z podcast.

Gai Berkovich

Creator

Google

Byline author announcing Waze's new Gemini conversational capabilities for navigation and map reporting.

Co-author of Joints, Camera, Action! research project.

Co-author on Code World Model research paper

Led research on GenAI in education demonstrating a novel approach to reimagining textbooks with improved learning outcomes.

Gal Zahavi

Engineer

Senior Software Engineer at Google

Co-author of the article announcing the Gemini CLI interactive shell enhancement

Gale A. Brewer

Policy

Council Member at New York City Council

Council Member encouraging NYC Public Schools' comprehensive approach to AI literacy across grade levels.

Gang Liao

Researcher

Research Scientist at Meta

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

Co-author of research paper on EvoClaw, evaluating AI agents on continuous software evolution.

Listed as co-author in the CUDA Agent citation for the research on agentic RL for CUDA kernel optimization

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Gaoyue Zhou

Researcher

Computer Science Ph.D. student at NYU Courant

Co-author of temporal straightening research contributing to latent planning improvements.

Used LLMs to sift through leaked Chinese surveillance company emails and government records to expose US tech company involvement in Chinese surveillance.