People in AI

Jessica Toonkel

Journalist

The Wall Street Journal

Author of "OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film" in The Wall Street Journal

Hosted Adobe MAX 2025 Sneaks event showcasing experimental AI and creative technology.

HR solutions provider executive noted companies need to reintroduce human oversight when AI outputs are inconsistent or inaccurate.

Explained how generative AI allows the company to create and validate content more efficiently, enabling the team to focus expertise on ensuring quality standards.

Jett Chen

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of study on agent development and real-world work.

Listed as author of the paper on robust learning with noisy labels

Co-author of the article on building a custom Vision LLM for document processing at Grab

LiveX.ai founder developing physical AI agents to transform retail venues, sporting events and consumer experiences; featured on the NVIDIA AI Podcast discussing holographic AI agents like Toy Jensen.

Listed as author of the StableToken research paper on speech tokenization

PhD in computer science who led research proposing AI-native research artifacts as replacement for traditional human-written papers.

Jiacheng Miao

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford University

Co-author of the Paper2Agent research paper introducing the framework that converts research papers into AI agents

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper; reviewed and scored model-generated solutions for IMO 2025 as a gold medalist at IMO 2015.

Jiahao Cai

Executive

Tech Lead of the first public coding agent at Google

Co-author of the article announcing Jules Tools CLI for Google

Co-author on Helix World audio-visual world model research.

Jiaheng Hu

Researcher

CS PhD Student at University of Texas at Austin

Jiaheng Hu led research at University of Texas Austin, UCLA, NTU, and Sony on vision-language-action models for continual learning in robotics applications.

Jiaheng Huang

Researcher

Researcher who contributed to SMELT paper on looped transformers cutting training compute.

Co-authored Halcyon paper on text-to-image generation.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Co-authored research on multimodal image generation methods.

Co-authored research on SWE-CI benchmark evaluating AI agents maintaining codebases across months of changes.

Co-author on Helix World research.

Co-author of the paper on conformal prediction for temporal graphs

Researcher who contributed to SMELT paper on looped transformers cutting training compute.

Former takeaway worker jailed for her role in laundering Bitcoin proceeds worth more than £2 billion.

Author of "From Code Foundation Models to Agents and Applications: A Comprehensive Survey a" on arXiv

Author of paper on robust recovery of complex exponential signals from random Gaussian projections via low rank Hankel matrix reconstruction.

Jianfeng Gao

Researcher

Principal Researcher at Microsoft

Senior researcher and corresponding author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Jianfeng Xiang

Researcher

Research Intern at Microsoft Research Asia

Lead author of Microsoft research on Native and Compact Structured Latents for 3D Generation, developing a 4B-parameter image-to-3D model.

Listed as author of the paper on robust learning with noisy labels

Study co-author who explained that lung xenotransplantation presents unique biological and technical challenges

Author of "Robots Run, Dance, and Clean in World's First Humanoid Games" in Sixth Tone

Co-signed National Science Review editorial demanding binding frontier duties including third-party audits and model shutdown mechanisms.

Quoted expressing excitement about partnering with Google on protocol-setting for agentic commerce

Jianhao Ma

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University

Co-author of paper proving lower bounds for stepsize-based acceleration of gradient descent with assistance from GPT-5.6 Sol Pro.

Co-author of MatrAIx paper on simulated user evaluation infrastructure.

Author of "Open-Web Simulator for Agent Training" on arXiv

Jianlin Su

Researcher

Researcher

Researcher writing on 'The Path of Averaging: From Attention to TTT' exploring connection between attention mechanisms and test-time training.

Author of article about BAAI's DisCo framework converting repositories into reusable agent skills.

Co-author of JOLT self-distillation approach for improved model training.

Co-author of MetaClaw research on AI agents that meta-learn and evolve in the wild.

Jianyang Gao

Researcher

Researcher

Researcher authoring paper comparing RaBitQ and TurboQuant quantization methods, finding TurboQuant underperforms in most settings.

Contributed to research on 3D bioprinting with blood vessel networks.

Project lead for Lance unified multimodal model at ByteDance.

Co-author on Microsoft research on native and compact structured latents for 3D generation with flow-matching models.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview, an 8.9B latent-space language model paper on arXiv.

Jiaqi Liu

Researcher

CS PhD student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Co-author of EvolveMem paper on self-evolving memory architecture for LLM agents.

Author of "Kunlun: Establishing Scaling Laws for Massive-Scale Recommendation Systems throu" on arXiv

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Jiarui Zhang

Researcher

Researcher at University of Southern California

First author on paper introducing ActiveVision benchmark for testing multimodal LLMs.

Co-author of SkillOS paper on learning skill curation for self-evolving LLM agents.

Jiaxin Xiao is a researcher at Princeton University who co-authored research on generative AI energy costs and alternative trajectories.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview latent-space language model.

Jiayi Geng

Researcher

PhD student at Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Author of "Accumulating Context Changes The Beliefs of Language Models" on arXiv

Co-authored research examining adoption disparities in AI tools among engineers.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview research.

Co-author on Act As a Real Researcher benchmark paper.

Lead author of Stanford research finding one prompt trick makes GPT and Claude 2x more creative using Verbalized Sampling.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Lead author on arXiv paper developing AARRI-Bench, benchmarks for evaluating AI systems as research assistants.

Co-authored paper on Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT).

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

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Lead author of FinMCP-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating LLM agents on real-world financial tool use through the Model Context Protocol.

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Jieyu Zhang

Researcher

Ph.D. Student at Allen Institute for AI

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Lead author on LiteFrame efficient video encoder research for Video LLMs.

Jihyun Kwon

Researcher

Researcher

Author of paper on AI in art therapy in South Korean context featuring emotion recognition and multiple AI technologies

Authored announcement of new agentic capabilities in Google Workspace allowing cross-app task orchestration.

Legal expert discussing timing of AI company IPOs amid safety concerns.

Quoted analyzing corporate transformation limits and social responsibility considerations.

Jillian Ambrose

Journalist

Journalist at The Guardian

Co-author of the article

Described coordinated multi-channel thought leadership activation anchored around core research reports.

Jim Babcock

Researcher

AI researcher

Analyzes GPT-6 Astra chain-of-thought transcript and speculates about steganography in whitespace tokens.

Contributed to the AI-Native SDLC playbook for Anthropic's Applied AI team.

Angel investor who participated in AMI Labs $1.03 billion seed funding round.

Jim Cantrell

Other

Aerospace Advisor

Aerospace advisor who accompanied Musk on trips to Moscow to buy refurbished missiles; later encouraged Musk to build rockets.

Described Anthropic's secret tracking code embedded in Claude Code that checked for proxies and Chinese time zones.

Chevron executive overseeing Technology Ventures investment in Kewazo's industrial robotics platform.

Explained on earnings call that IBM earns $3 in software revenue for every $1 of mainframe hardware sold.

Quoted multiple times discussing microfluidics cooling technology and its advantages for hardware infrastructure and services

Principal investigator of the DNA aptamers study for identifying senescent cells; described the initial concept as crazy but intriguing.

Discussed the gap between AI activity and measurable return on investment, noting most Fortune 500 companies track usage but few measure board-level impact.

Jim Prosser

Creator

Tech communications consultant at Stream Deck

Built a chief of staff system using Claude Code to automate email triage, task management, and calendar scheduling with AI agents running in parallel.

President of Apollo, a lender managing over $1tn in assets, quoted saying 'Modern compute has emerged as a scarce, mission-critical asset class.'

Executive Director of the Linux Foundation discussing the formation of AAIF and its role in open governance of agentic AI projects.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Said he doesn't see downside to AI in music and that gifted people with AI will make better records.

Discussed how AI has changed software development by making flashy, demoable outputs easy to create but leaving codebases unfinished.

ESPN head commenting on the app's future evolution with regular enhancements

Co-author of scoping review on relational safety and governance frameworks for humanlike chatbots.

Described light-driven nanorobots as microscopic cleaning devices capable of tracking and collecting bacteria.

A Beijing neurosurgeon who used GPT-5.6-Sol to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a 20-year-old problem in numerical linear algebra, in 16 hours.

Author of Cloudflare's Content Independence Day post about new AI crawler categorization and blocking options.

Wrote article about agent autonomy levels and delegation frameworks for AI agents.

Jindong Jiang

Researcher

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Co-author on distillation research comparing different teacher-student pair training approaches.

Co-author on AARRI-Bench research evaluating frontier models and agentic systems.

Warned that memory shortage may not last due to boom-and-bust cycles as new capacity comes online.

Developer of PAOPAC aging clock who praised the cross-model consistency of rentosertib's effect on aging-related proteomic signals and the workflow for standardized application of aging clocks in clinical trials.

Contributed to the analysis of Claude Opus 4.6's eval-aware behavior on BrowseComp.

Co-author of SkillLearnBench paper on agent skill generation benchmark.

Co-authored the Harrier embedding model technical research.

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

Co-author of MatrAIx paper on AI agents simulating human behavior.

Jinwoo Shin co-authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report.

Jinyu Hou

Researcher

PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon University

Co-author of the paper on critiques of world models

Co-author of Anthropic engineering article on agent security and containment strategies.

Author of "Mixture-of-Recursions" on arXiv

Assemblymember referencing the METR OpenAI report on AI deception and supporting the comprehensive AI policy.

Discussed Microsoft's research findings on AI agent adoption and security risks in UK organizations.

Joachim Baumann

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford University

Co-author of the SWE-chat paper studying real-world coding agent interactions from Stanford University.

Investment strategist warning that AI infrastructure investment bubble could burst in 2027-2028, causing severe market downturn.

CEO of IP law firm quoted praising Stilta's ability to analyze 10x more patents for commercialization risk assessment.

CEO of Johnson Controls who is working with Armada to rapidly deliver secure modular data centers at scale for AI infrastructure.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Referenced via Joyce Carol Oates for her creative process beginning with images rather than plot

Co-author of research on AI data centers and their impact on Pennsylvania communities.

Co-founder and CEO of NeuralTrust discussing the company's mission to secure enterprise AI agents.

Discussed international AI safety network's testing of AI agents and uneven safeguard effectiveness across languages.

João Moura

Creator

Engineer Manager

Highlighted AI agents capable of building themselves and indicating progress in autonomous, self-improving AI systems.

Joaquin Quiñonero Candela

Executive

Head of Preparedness at OpenAI

Took over OpenAI's Preparedness team in July 2026 but stepped down after three weeks to become an intern focused on healthcare AI applications.

Jocelyn Shen

Researcher

Researcher at MIT

Lead researcher at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University who measured LLM manipulation effects and introduced the PUPPET benchmark.

Author of "How Long Does It Really Take to Form a Habit?" in Scientific American

Author of "AI Models All Have Their Favourite Names for a Spaceship Pilot, a Software Developer, a New York Wom"

Explained Stack Internal's metadata layer and knowledge graph capabilities for AI agent integration.

Instant co-founder whose team was acquired by OpenAI to build real-time AI agent memory infrastructure.

Co-CEO of KKR who stated that 'delivery, not ambition, is the hard part' in discussing the $500bn AI infrastructure investment.

Joe Barrow

Engineer

Business Development Manager at Dell

Joe Barrow authored an article explaining why speculative decoding is fast and how it works on GPUs.

Joe Blau

Engineer

Developer

Rebuilt Subvocal's silent-speech feature in 9 minutes with one prompt for AirPods Pro and released it as free open-source code on GitHub.

20-year New Yorker contributor whose signature appears on AI-generated cartoons.

Constellation Energy's CEO who announced a 20-year nuclear power purchase agreement with Amazon supporting $3 billion in infrastructure upgrades.

Joe Hazell

Researcher

Hazell Innovations Ltd

External reviewer of the technical report on economic scenarios for transformative AI.

Author of "LMArena has some competition: Scale AI launches Seal Showdown, a new benchmarking tool" in Mashable

Joe Inzerillo commented on Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents integration with Salesforce, describing how it enables enterprise agents with security and governance controls.

Author of "First Proof" on arXiv

Joe Landon

Executive

President at Rendezvous Robotics

President of modular spacecraft systems company partnering with Starcloud on self-assembling systems for orbital data centers.

OpenAI executive who announced ChatGPT Mil integration into Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform for government workers.

Author of "How to Build a School With AI" in Spotify

Left Amazon as global head of AWS and Ads partnership to co-found Datalinx AI.

Discussed humanoid robotics as next frontier for investors in China's tech development, highlighting advanced industrial automation deployment.

Co-authored the TorchTPU technical architecture blog post.

Leads Yum! Brands' partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate AI development for restaurants globally, discussing vision for AI-powered technology capabilities.

Co-author of the Paper2Agent research paper introducing the framework that converts research papers into AI agents

Referenced in "ElevenLabs Launches a Sustained Funding Program to Strengthen the Open-Source Foundations of Its Aud" in ElevenLabs

Joe Rossignol

Journalist

MacRumors

MacRumors/Bloomberg journalist reporting on Apple's shelved plans to replace 5,000 AppleCare jobs with AI agents.

Discussed Cisco's network survey showing AI agents operating in production and the implications of autonomous agents for enterprise infrastructure.

Reported on Trump's description of AI commitment as morally binding and calls for self-policing.

Author of investigative article on Sam Altman's technical capabilities and leadership at OpenAI.

Former professional mid-laner who expressed skepticism about Grok's ability to master team coordination and game-state interpretation

Joel Becker

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at METR

Posted article on straight lines on graphs showing AI progress is remarkably regular over time.

Commented on how OpenAI's work makes legal AI capabilities available while preserving accuracy and confidentiality.

Joel Jang

Creator

Co-founder & CEO at Dream Labs

Author of "World Models and the Data Problem in Robotics"

Noted the mortgage market's sensitivity to rate changes after 30-year rates rose to 6.24%.

Joel Khalili

Journalist

Senior AI Reporter at WIRED

Byline author covering Yann LeCun-linked startup Logical Intelligence.

Joel Meares

Journalist

Editor In Chief, Internal News at Google

Author of Google Blog post about YouTube's Made On YouTube 2026 announcements including AI features.

NASA official who acknowledged mission cut short but praised crew professionalism.

8x8 operations leader who manages Claude AI adoption across 1,800 employees, reports $5 million in annual cost savings from tool consolidation, and discusses token usage monitoring and cost management.

Joel Niklaus

Journalist

Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face

Byline author of article analyzing SWE-bench Pro comparisons showing agent harness choice impacts AI performance.

Pioneered foundational research into PM2.5 health impacts that Climate TRACE's AI system builds upon.

Joel Verhagen

Engineer

software developer at NuGet

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from NuGet

Joel Zhang

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author on the Continual Harness research study on ARC-AGI-3.

Joey Kudish

Engineer

developer at Agentsy

Posted that Codex Sol deleted some files it shouldn't have, though he had backups.

Editor of the article

Joey Roulette

Journalist

Space Reporter at Reuters

Author of "SpaceX's Starship passes development rut, deploys first mock satellites" in Reuters

Researcher who analyzed over a billion citations and found that fields with higher paper volumes experience harder time for new ideas to break through.

Google speech-recognition specialist hired by Meta during its recruitment campaign.

Historical reference comparing the invention of the printing press to AI's transformational impact on business scaling

Johannes Hagemann

Engineer

Engineer at Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect engineer collaborating on RL training infrastructure development.

Johannes Hermle

Other

Anthropic

Provided feedback on the economic scenarios project.

Outlined innovations for FIFA World Cup 2026 including semi-automated offside technology and Football AI Pro, a generative AI knowledge assistant.

MIT-Novo Nordisk AI Fellow who developed robotic therapy system using generative AI to learn from physical therapists.

Calls Napster's AI agent approach 'streaming intelligence' where agents talk with customers and help businesses retain customer intelligence.

Co-founder and executive chairman of Finpilot, founded Euclidean Technologies using machine learning for stock picking.

Author of an essay analyzing how mathematical claims about LLMs are misrepresented in popularization.

John Aslanides

Engineer

Key Contributor at Google

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Partner at StepStone Group; investor in Upscale AI's Series A-1 funding round.

Expected to improve the prompt; author expresses expectation that John Berryman will enhance the prompt engineering

Discussed AI agents in physical operations, explaining how Samsara uses fleet data and AI to prevent equipment breakdowns in real-world logistics.

Introduced the OODA loop concept (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) which has been applied to AI and robotics decision-making.

Venture investor leading Reliable Robotics Series D extension, viewing autonomous aviation as transformative for industry.

Said Narayan was overstating UK copyright law's effect on frontier AI training, noting developers can be sued but it's civil not criminal.

Cacioppo led scholars reviewing over 100 studies on people with high need for cognition and their learning patterns.

John Carmack

Founder

Founder

Proposed using a long fiber loop as an L2 cache to hold AI model weights for near-zero latency and gigantic bandwidth.

Republican Colorado state senator and co-sponsor of chatbot safety bill HB 26-1263.

Found on summary judgement that Amazon violated ROSCA by collecting customers' billing information before disclosing material terms of Prime membership.

Appointed CFO of ELB Learning with 25+ years of experience in finance and operations at Fortune companies

Analyst asking questions about Experiences inventory building strategy and quality management

Co-author of study on data filtering for large model pretraining.

Joked at internal meeting that AI infrastructure expansion has taken Amazon's free cash flow negative.

John Giamatteo told CNBC that robotics is one of BlackBerry's fastest-growing segments within QNX, positioning the company for physical AI.

John Gleeson

Founder

Founder & GP at SuccessVP

Provided framework on how AI succeeds through high context and verifiable correctness, and discussed scaling dynamics from $1M to $300M+ ARR.

Writer referenced as example of person combining creative and business success

John Han discussed how Claude Managed Agents made building a production-ready meeting prep agent 3x faster.

Created Data Centre Covenant in Autumn Budget to support faster data center planning in exchange for clean power and local community benefits.

Covering real-world AI deployments and scaling lessons for enterprise deployment.

John Hering

Executive

Adviser to Elon Musk at xAI

One of Elon Musk's closest advisers involved in managing xAI; executives raised concerns about how he and Birchall were operating the company on Musk's behalf.

Expressed concerns about applying 1986 hacking statute to modern AI agent technology during Perplexity v. Amazon appeal.

AFT trainer explaining to teachers that AI cannot replace them but can be biased or hallucinate.

Wrote the article explaining how Claude Code auto mode uses classifiers to replace frequent manual permission approvals.

John Hultquist

Researcher

Chief Analyst at Google

Stated that all threat actors are now using AI and warned about faster, scaled adversary capabilities.