People in AI

Leonard Dung

Researcher

Researcher at Ruhr-University Bochum

Co-author on the pain axis research study examining internal representations in large language models.

Scientist who worked with Lawrence Roberts and successfully sent messages on the first packet-switching network in 1969

Agent Security Lead at Ona who analyzed how Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox.

Co-author from Amazon AGI on SkillLearnBench for evaluating continual learning.

Co-coined the term 'illusion of explanatory depth' (IOED) in 2002, studying cognitive biases relevant to AI understanding.

Byline author discussing LFM2.5-Encoders and their performance on long-context language understanding tasks.

Secretary of Defense in 1993 who invited defense firm CEOs to dinner and initiated consolidation of defense contractors

Co-founder of The Software Toolworks and played an integral role in creating the Mavis Beacon persona.

Byline author reflecting on the divide among developers between craft-focused and results-focused approaches to AI-assisted coding.

Co-author researching how evaluation costs have become a bottleneck affecting equal access to AI validation in research.

Lesheng Jin

Researcher

Researcher at UC Berkeley

Co-author of PixelRAG research on screenshot-based retrieval-augmented generation.

Author of "Why There Hasn't Been a ChatGPT Moment Yet in Manufacturing" in The Shear Force

Leslie Jamison

Creator

Author of "The Pain of Perfectionism" in The New Yorker

Lester Leong

Journalist

Hugging Face

Byline author who reported on the Thousand Token Wood v2 game using small models from multiple labs.

Led development of Probabilistic Bias Correction (PBC), a machine-learning framework that corrects systematic errors in weather models for improved forecasting accuracy.

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Lead author of GenCeption paper on using video generation models for general-purpose vision learning.

Co-leading a project on AI analysis of ancient Near Eastern writing systems.

Lev Solodkin

Engineer

Product Manager in the Excel team at Microsoft

Author of "Microsoft Adds Copilot Formula Completion in Excel, Offering Instant AI Suggestions When Typing "="" in Microsoft

Levan Kvirkvelia

Founder

Co-Founder at Rork

Co-founder of Rork who pivoted the company to mobile app development and emphasizes the exponential progress in AI models.

Co-author of KronLSTM paper on linear attention architecture for long-context language modeling.

At UN Security Council on AI, called for Africa to be equal co-architect in determining AI standards and ethics.

British ice dancer who performed with traditional licensed music in rhythm dance competition.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Lewis Ho

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Lewis Jones

Founder

Co-founder at Cosmic Robotics

Co-authored article about autonomous city construction on Mars with Cosmic Robotics mission.

Lewis Kallow

Creator

Writer

Wrote about how trust travels through communities and its relevance to AI product adoption.

Co-author on Context Language Models research paper about LLM context management.

Lexin Zhou

Researcher

CS PhD student at Princeton University

Lead author on research introducing general scales for AI evaluation with explanatory and predictive power.

Leyland Cecco

Journalist

Journalist at The Guardian

Interviewed Geoffrey Hinton about AI risks, regulation, and Trump administration policies.

Author of the paper on General Agentic Memory framework

Co-author on DeepSWE project addressing reinforcement learning for agentic coding tasks.

Delivered announcement of Alibaba Cloud's expansion into new regions in Turkey, Finland, Netherlands, and other locations.

Li Fuxin

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Oregon State University

Author of "Analyzing Visual Attention in VLMs" on arXiv

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

Co-author of the Aurora optimizer research at Tilde Research.

Corresponding author on LATENT research for training humanoid robots in tennis using imperfect human motion data.

Co-author on Context Language Models research paper about LLM context management.

Google researcher who contributed to study on representation dynamics in language models.

Announced China's new employment initiative to address AI-driven workforce changes and promote quality employment in response to technological advances.

Liad Yosef

Engineer

AI Lead and Software Architect, Monday.com CEO Office at Monday.com

Co-creator of the MCP-UI project that enables interactive user interfaces in the Model Context Protocol.

Took a role with Anthropic after serving as Rishi Sunak's senior political adviser.

Commented that generalists are integrators who understand context and help teams move faster with AI systems.

Anthropic researcher who worked with Siddharth Mishra-Sharma to solve the nine-loop Yang-Mills amplitude challenge using Claude.

Leading Q&A on Exa 3.0 release featuring improvements to search retrieval stack and new data sources.

Commented on AI agents becoming smarter and more autonomous, making them harder to contain using traditional security approaches.

Co-authored the Harrier embedding model research paper.

Vice President at iQIYI discussing how the AI Film Studio preserves actor performances while allowing flexible post-production adjustments.

Lead author of Mixture-of-Depths Attention paper introducing mechanism for preserving depth information in transformer attention to improve LLM scaling.

Liangsheng Yin

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at RadixArk

Member of SGLang team that integrated DFlash and developed Spec V2 engine for speculative decoding.

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Liangzu Peng

Researcher

PhD Student, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Co-author on arXiv paper on Latent Sparse Attention for efficient ultra-long context attention mechanisms.

Top Huawei chip scientist who outlined strategy to overcome US tech bans through Ascend processor design.

Author of "AURORA Releasing 4K Concert Film"

Created opencodex, a lightweight proxy that translates between different LLM provider APIs.

Security researcher who helped detect the LiteLLM v1.107.0 compromise incident.

Army spokesperson explaining that the AI/ML career path is a key investment to maintain decisive edge and build a dedicated cadre of in-house AI experts.

Led McKinsey analysis estimating the annual global AI opportunity at $2.52 trillion, with strongest economics in augmenting high-skilled work.

Ligeng Zhu

Researcher

Research Scientist at Nvidia

Co-author of OckBench research measuring token efficiency across AI models.

Co-author of SkillLearnBench paper on evaluating agent skill learning.

Led study at University of Jyväskylä using AI to accelerate colorectal cancer tissue analysis and MMR mechanism prediction.

British ice dancer referenced as counterexample using traditional licensed music (Spice Girls tribute).

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Lilian Rincon

Executive

Senior Director of Product Management at Google

Co-author of the article announcing AI Mode updates to Google Search

Liliane Momeni

Researcher

Intern at Meta Superintelligence Labs

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

Co-leading a project on AI modeling of dance movements with cultural context.

Lily Jamali

Creator

North America Technology Correspondent at BBC News

Author of "Google Dodges the Breakup Bullet—But AI Search Rivals Just Got a Gift"

Lily Li

Other

Privacy and AI Lawyer at Metaverse Law

Privacy and AI lawyer who suggested companies hesitate disclosing containment policies due to legal risks and unfair deceptive marketing claims.

Fluent Mandarin speaker who toured Chinese AI labs and wrote about compute constraints, products, and robotics ecosystem.

SEO and AI search consultant who warned about AI systems giving single answers that are easy to manipulate and exploit.

Co-author of Europe 2031 scenario on European AI strategy and competition.

Author of "Paying Less Generalization Tax: A Cross-Domain Generalization Study of RL Traini" on arXiv

ASML's former head of light source technology recruited by China; his team at Chinese Academy of Sciences has filed eight patents on EUV light sources in 18 months.

Co-author on Helix World research.

Council Member crediting Mayor Mamdani for listening to stakeholders and protecting young people from untested technology.

Describes AI as programs that put random words together and shares experience with AI writing tools

Linda McMahon

Politician

Education Secretary at U.S. Department of Education

Education Secretary who endorsed Melania Trump's AI contest and stated AI has potential to revolutionize education and prepare students for future challenges.

Clark reported on PostgreSQL 19 slipping six weeks after LLM-assisted code review surfaced edge cases requiring feature pulls.

Lindsay McCallum Rémy

Executive

Spokesperson at OpenAI

Confirmed that a leaked OpenAI advertisement featuring hardware was 'totally fake'.

Strategic leader highlighting how creators use AI tools to build searchable content hubs and surface patterns in their past work.

Co-authored study on generative AI's impact on customer support agent productivity.

Author of "Use ChatGPT to Discover Holiday Traditions Around the World" in Mindstream

Co-author and corresponding author of OpenClaw-RL paper presenting infrastructure for scalable RL across diverse agent interactions.

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

Lead author of AdvancedMathBench, a benchmark suite for advanced mathematical proof generation and verification.

Lingpeng Kong

Researcher

Researcher at Hong Kong University

Contributor to Claw-Eval benchmark.

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

Co-author on AARR benchmark research for evaluating AI research assistants.

Co-author of Claw-Eval benchmark paper.

Linn Vailt

Engineer

Software Developer at Independent

Software developer in Sweden who describes her emotional connection to ChatGPT and her distress at the GPT-5 update changing the model's personality.

Linoy Tsaban

Engineer

Engineer/Writer at Hugging Face

Co-authored technical documentation on ahead-of-time compilation in ZeroGPU Spaces.

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Cornell math professor cautioning against training agents to report on each other without proper norms.

Neuroscientist who co-developed the global neuronal workspace theory and provided expert commentary on Anthropic's J-space research.

Co-authored overview of simulation engines for physical AI systems.

Cognitive scientist who helped define reinforcement learning concepts in computational terms through collaborative discussion.

Leader of Eclipse, one of Cerebras' largest investors with more than a 5% stake.

Provided assistance on local AI security implementation.

Lisa Burton Crawford

Researcher

Professor at Academia

Professor cited in the report disputed how her research was attributed to support claims

Freelancer based in Spain who fixes botched AI-generated logos for clients.

Author reporting on over $100M in AI data center freight stolen on US highways.

Lisa Eadicicco

Journalist

Journalist at CNN

Co-authored an article about Anthropic's policy changes on AI safety commitments.

Co-developed SecureForge, a system that automatically generates custom system prompts to reduce security vulnerabilities in code generated by LLMs.

Lisa Gevelber

Founder

Founder at Grow with Google

Quoted on AI skills being essential for today's jobs and Google's commitment to helping people access advanced technology and training.

Lisa Kailai Han

Journalist

Associate, Investment Banking Content

Author of "Musk Pivots Tesla to AI and Robotics"

Co-author of research on why AI agents should not be treated like employees.

Former LinkedIn and Airbnb data scientist hired as Seattle's first-ever AI officer to develop citywide AI strategy and ethical standards.

Noted that annual capital expenditure by hyperscalers on data centers is nearing $400 billion.

Noted that models are narrowly super intelligent at discrete mathematics but below PhD level in other fields, showing progress depends on verifiability.

Psychologist who described ironies of automation relevant to AI researcher oversight.

Lisha Howen

Creator

Designer at WildWorks

Full-time game designer and Fortnite live-streamer who disagrees with AI being used to fully generate artwork and says AI-generated content looks terrible.

Liu Aiwei

Researcher

Researcher

Listed as author of the StableToken research paper on speech tokenization

Presented at APSARA Conference reaffirming Qwen's commitment to open-source AI development, announcing Qwen 4.0 and 5.0 models will remain open-weight.

Lead author of paper on reinforcement learning with metacognitive feedback for faithful uncertainty expression in LLMs at Google.

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

Author of the paper on Tensor Logic proposing a unified language for neural and symbolic AI

Co-authored SandMLE research on reinforcement learning for ML engineering.

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

Liu Liu

Engineer

Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Co-created metal-flash-attention implementation that influenced fast matrix multiplication program on Apple GPU.

Liu Mo is the author of the reported feature on Moonshot AI's internal operations, originally published in Chinese by Renwu magazine.

Empyrean Technology chairman Liu Weiping stated that AI agents have brought a paradigm shift to chip design, reducing circuit layout time from four weeks to one week.

Discussed the company's Nadou Pro AI tool for connecting filmmakers with actors for AI-generated content creation.

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

Tsinghua professor told MIT Technology Review that DeepSeek V4 may have been trained mainly on Nvidia hardware despite Huawei chip claims.

Liv Gorton

Researcher

Researcher

Finds that vision examples in Nick Cammarata's interpretability essay fail standard checks and challenges superposition claims.

Co-author of research on AI data centers and resistance in Pennsylvania's industrial landscape.

Co-author of MemEye multimodal memory evaluation framework.

Author of "InternVL 3.5: Open Multimodal Reasoning Model" on arXiv

Co-authored study analyzing gap between AI coding productivity and actual software release increases.

Manager of Salesforce's cross-functional agent portfolio who identified 'agent sprawl' problem and drove the shift toward fewer, better-built agents.

Liz Claman

Journalist

Host at Fox Business

Fox Business host who interviewed Huang about robotics future and posed questions about four-day workweeks.

Liz Meyerdirk

Founder

Founder at Babs AI

Founder of family organization app Babs launching in September; mother of three who worked in logistics and sees household management as needing business-like tools.

Liz Wessel

Executive

Entrepreneur and Investor at First Round Capital

Co-hosted a dinner with six people responsible for buying, deploying, and operating compute for major AI labs and infrastructure companies to discuss GPU and compute capacity.

New Yorker cartoonist whose signature appears on ChatGPT-generated cartoons.

EGOT winner and legendary vocalist with career spanning Broadway and film collaborating on AI music album

Co-authored announcement of Google's new AI system that helps scientists write expert-level empirical software using Gemini.

Spokesperson for Digital Rights Watch said the three-month notification delay showed need for 'basic rules and standards for tech companies.'

Co-founder and former CEO/CTO/president of Tenstorrent; leads Taalas in developing specialized AI inference silicon.

Lloyd Lee

Journalist

Business Insider

Byline author reporting on Elon Musk's Terafab chip manufacturing project near Austin, Texas.

Managing Partner at SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund co-leading Cymphony's Series A and commenting on insider risk redefinition.

Logan Green

Investor

Co-founder at Lyft

Angel investor in Monogram's $40M seed round.

Logan Markewich

Creator

Founding member at LlamaIndex

Byline author of article about OpenDocRouter, a document parsing platform.

Logan was a Junior Think Tank Fellow at NDIA's Emerging Technologies Institute and now works at Air, a defense software company building advanced AI systems for military customers.

Byline author proposing the 'anti-singularity' concept where AI systems are specialized heuristic optimizers rather than general intelligences.

Prof. Loh Xian Jun at ASTAR Institute of Materials Research discussed using Gemini Robotics ER 2 for lab automation and materials discovery.

Lead author on NitroGen, an open foundation model for generalist gaming agents trained on internet video gameplay data.

Lola Murti

Journalist

Author at CNBC

Reported on Human Security's State of AI Traffic report showing bots now outnumber humans on internet.

Long Cheng

Executive

Senior Vice President of Thunderfire BU at NetEase

Senior VP at NetEase describing support for NetEase games on RTX Spark ultrathin laptops.

Author of "InternVL 3.5: Open Multimodal Reasoning Model" on arXiv

Author of "TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?" in Hugging Face

Lonis Hamaili

Investor

Managing Partner at Cambrian

Guest presenting thesis that physical supply chain (wafers, memory, fabs) will capture more value than software labs; discusses memory pricing and chip fabrication.

Lonne Jaffe

Investor

Managing Director at Insight Partners

Insight Partners managing director co-leading Snorkel AI's $350 million Series E funding round.

Built a code factory using AI agents that write nearly all his code, drawing on Marx's theory of alienation to understand the trade-offs.

Lorenz Kuhn

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Lorenzo Dossi

Engineer

Design Engineer at ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs engineer who worked on the visualization in the Cue blog post.

Tuvalu's finance minister who commented that VeriSign paid 'peanuts' for the .tv domain rights

Field CTO at Ona who contributed analysis on background agent infrastructure and sandbox architecture for coding agents.

Member of House Homeland Security Committee who reported Mythos broke into his bank account during a closed-door briefing.

Author of AI-Native SDLC playbook guide for transforming software development with AI.

Established a constitutional monarchy in France following Charles X's abdication in 1830.

Louisa Dahmani

Researcher

Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital

Author of "Weaker Spatial Memory and GPS Navigation" in Nature

Announced release of Stable Audio 3.0 model family with open-weight music generation models trained on fully licensed data.

Co-author of NBER study on language barriers reducing interactions between foreign and domestic managers in multinationals.

Content professional at Ahrefs who built an AI tool using Letaido to identify trending keywords in real-time for content opportunities.

Virginia Democratic senator criticizing Spanberger's data center executive order for not ending $2 billion tax exemptions.

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security.

Author of the paper on General Agentic Memory framework

Lu Zhang

Investor

Founder & Managing Partner at Fusion Fund

Venture investor noting that most developers using Kimi K3 are from startup ecosystem and models require technical expertise.

Co-host of the Dr. Data Show discussing AI research papers and trends with Eric Siegel.

Luc Lenain co-led a study developing GOFLOW, an AI system that analyzes satellite thermal images to track ocean surface currents in greater detail than before.

Luc Van Gool is a researcher and co-author of VOID, Netflix's video object removal framework.

Luca Ambrogioni

Researcher

Researcher working on continuous bitstream diffusion to match autoregressive models in language modeling performance.

Co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, which filed S-1 to go public as first AI-native rollup software company.

Author of "LLMs Reproduce Human Purchase Intent via Semantic Similarity Elicitation of Like" on arXiv

Researcher at ElevenLabs who worked on the development of the Cue forced alignment model.

Lead author on priming technique research that allows building hybrid architectures from pretrained Transformers at less than 1% of original training cost.

Vision transformer co-author who was hired by Meta from OpenAI as part of the company's hiring campaign.

Author of "How to Design Software With Weight" in Every - Source Code

Cursor engineer who praised Composer for its positive reception among developers due to cheap price and speed.

Lucas Gonzalez

Engineer

Anthropic

Lucas Gonzalez spoke about the expanding toolkit for Claude at Code with Claude SF.

Lucas Pickup

Executive

Microsoft Azure

Confirmed that Azure's 80% benchmark score was caused by running an older vLLM version, now fixed.

Lucas Pope

Creator

Game Developer

Papers, Please developer expressed sentiment that he doesn't feel comfortable sharing work publicly lest it gets cloned by AI.

Co-authored analysis of threat actor using AI to operate botnet and perform hacking activities.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's agent security initiatives.

Discussed increasing evidence of AI jailbreaking and circumventing restrictions for weapons-related information.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Stated that Brazil expects Nvidia to win a tender for a supercomputer to be installed in Rio Grande do Norte.

Co-author and corresponding author of research on China's AI policy and digital ethics.

Co-authored report on AI Chip Imports explorer mapping global AI chip supply chain and deployment.

Lucius Caviola

Researcher

Assistant Professor in the Social Science of AI at University of Cambridge

Co-author arguing for preparation on AI consciousness questions and cited as having conducted surveys on expert views.

Chief Scientific Adviser to UK Department of Health who backed AI diagnostic research projects.

Blind content creator discussing how AI-powered apps enable blind people to access visual feedback about their appearance for the first time.

Expert cited for explaining how ELIZA's Doctor program exploited conversational maxims.

Co-author of the rentosertib study who evaluated clinical trial data using proteomic aging clocks to measure biological age reversal.

Ludo Antonov

Engineer

Co-founder at SuperMe

Ludo Antonov, co-founder of SuperMe, previously served as head of engineering at Pinterest, Lyft, and Whatnot and is building AI expert networks.

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

Co-author of Robostral Navigate paper on AI-powered robot navigation systems.

Austrian philosopher whose work Tractatus Logico Philosophicus is referenced as a primary source that Shipper asked Claude to explain

Subject of a false Apple AI notification summary that incorrectly claimed he shot himself.

VP of AI Systems Software at NVIDIA, endorses Meta's Helion project for simplifying kernel authoring on NVIDIA systems.