People in AI

Leading Human Cell Atlas coordination efforts integrating with Biohub's Virtual Biology Initiative for AI-powered biological research.

Built dumbtv using DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Claude Opus 5.5, and Claude Sonnet 5.5 to remove ads and bloatware from smart TVs.

Co-authored article on South Korea's sovereign AI buildout and infrastructure investment.

N8 Programs

Creator

Tested Pangram 4 AI detection model and found it identified 38 AI-generated words in a 1,198-word story.

Nabeel Hyatt

Investor

General Partner at Spark Capital

General partner at Spark Capital with early investments in Discord, Descript, and AI note-taking app Granola, interviewed about AI investing thesis.

Nacho Mascort

Other

Head of AI (Marketing Automation)

Attended Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026 and detailed Google's quality attributes and core update recovery mechanisms.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Joined Enveda from Novo Nordisk as clinical development leader to advance AI-discovered medicines through trials.

Nader Dabit

Creator

Eigen Labs

Author of "The Complete Guide to Building Agents with the Claude Agent SDK"

Data protection and AI governance analyst who warns that data leakage incidents are inevitable given the rapid pace of AI feature releases.

Nadia Asparouhova

Creator

Author who interviewed Zerfas and attended one of Jhourney's retreats

Nadine Yousif

Journalist

Senior Multimedia Journalist at bbc.com

Author of "Parents of Teenager Who Took His Own Life Sue OpenAI" in bbc.com

Co-authored post on AI progress forecasts accuracy at FRI.

Developing framework that forces language models to iteratively construct candidate physical representations under explicit constraints.

Worked with Amazon Bio Discovery to design nearly 300,000 novel antibody molecules using AI agents, accelerating drug discovery from a year to weeks.

Leading biobot commercialization efforts targeting environmental sensing applications including aquaculture and pollutant detection.

Stated that the future of consumer goods is Data + AI + CRM + Trust working together in a continuous loop for transformation.

Endorsed NEURA Robotics investment, highlighting Qualcomm's support for Physical AI and robotics edge computing capabilities.

Led development of LiveCodeBench v6, a contamination-free evaluation benchmark for LLM code capabilities.

Naman Pushp

Founder

Founder at Airbound

Leads Airbound, an Indian drone startup raising $37 million to make autonomous cargo drones competitive with trucking; discusses vertical takeoff design and regulatory challenges.

Lead author of arXiv paper on harness effects in coding agent evaluation across Terminal-Bench tasks.

Manages Watson implementation in Thailand and described how local customization helps hospitals without oncology specialists.

Foundational Models researcher at Apple who joined OpenAI

Nan Jiang

Engineer

Engineer at Modal

Modal engineer providing feedback on RL experiment results and sandbox infrastructure.

Author of "Where Does Chocolate Milk Come From?"

Research team member on study of AI model identifying long-term health risks from sleep study data.

Co-Principal Investigator on Harvard study examining gender gaps across AI usage, knowledge, workplace support, and media representation.

Nancy Haigwood is a longtime OHSU colleague of Jonah Sacha who believed pairing leronlimab with existing HIV therapies could be more effective and helped develop the approach.

Deployed GuideGeek-powered AI bots Ellis and Libby for tourism in New York City.

Infosys chairman stated that AI has made the cost of rewriting legacy apps affordable and necessary.

Author of "Meta Removed AI Chatbots Impersonating Celebrities"

Co-author on NEXUS multi-agent time series forecasting framework.

Posted criticism that Block pushed AI adoption but saw limited productivity gains, refused retention raise and quit.

Former OpenAI researcher who joined Conduit to develop thought-to-text AI translating non-invasive brain signals into text.

Visited Asia with Alex Schultz to study startups organizing around AI and contributed to Meta's internal AI transformation planning.

Naomi Nix

Journalist

Senior Technology Correspondent at TIME

Co-author with Billy Perrigo and Harry Booth of the article 'The AI Tipping Point'.

Wrote essay arguing that realistic AI did not escape the uncanny valley but spread uncertainty to all communication, eroding trust and shared reality.

Leading a project to create an AI-driven system for tracing Classical ideas and quotations across texts and languages.

Lead researcher on the study who expresses surprise at Perplexity's deep research agent performance and responds to methodology criticisms

Stated that Celero's two-nanometer silicon validation demonstrates coherent technology can deliver bandwidth and power efficiency for next-generation AI networks.

Nassir Navab

Researcher

Professor at Technical University of Munich

Part of the steering committee for Open-H-Embodiment, building open datasets for Physical AI in healthcare robotics.

Nat McAleese

Engineer

Researcher at Anthropic

Said Fable/Mythos had been transformational to daily coding work, progressing from barely useful to barely writing a line of code since Fable.

Nat Purser

Policy

US Policy Director at AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI)

Criticized Anthropic's draft bill for preempting state AI laws while failing to create federal regulatory regime that can evolve with capabilities.

Byline author analyzing Z.ai's Ox Alpha reveal and its implications for AI economics and cost-efficiency.

Nat Sothanaphan

Engineer

Software Engineer

Software engineer and prolific Erdős problems forum participant who used ChatGPT to formalize mathematical proofs.

Natalie Guevara

Engineer

Blog Editor & Strategist at GitHub

Co-author of article announcing the GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset for discovering repositories with non-English content.

Natalie Meurer

Executive

FDE Lead at Sierra

Leads forward-deployed engineers at Sierra, discussing enterprise AI orchestration and agentic ecosystem management.

Natalie Neamtu co-authored research on Verus-SpecGym for evaluating how AI agents translate informal programming intent into formal specifications.

Lead author of red-teaming study on autonomous AI agents deployed in live laboratory environment, examining security and safety vulnerabilities.

Natalie Silvanovich

Researcher

Google Project Zero

Security researcher examining emergency patch systems for software vendors responding to urgent vulnerabilities.

Wrote article about horror novel 'Shy Girl' being pulled from publication due to AI generation allegations.

Nataniel Ruiz

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of MultiGen research on diffusion game engines with persistent external memory for coherent multiplayer gameplay.

Co-author of AI glossary article explaining technical terms like opaque recurrence, chain-of-thought, and other AI concepts.

Co-author of Bloomberg article about Wispr AI's funding round.

Reported on UNAM entrance exam cheating scandal involving AI proctoring failure.

Co-author of LiteLLM incident report on compromised v1.107.0 release.

Wrote an article analyzing AI business segments and their economics, arguing that dismissing AI as a bubble misses important nuance between consumer and enterprise applications.

Nate Barbettini

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Arcade.dev

Explained how MCP session ID changes improve scalability for AI agent infrastructure deployments.

Nate Berg

Journalist

Staff Writer at Fast Company

Wrote article about architecture firms building their own AI models as they sit on proprietary design data that frontier AI labs cannot access.

Stated OpenAI tools support national security work while refusing mass surveillance and autonomous weapons use.

Nate Grahek

Creator

The Rundown AI

Author of Nate's Notebook newsletter discussing use of AI tools like Dot for managing project lists and research.

Nate Sanford

Other

journalist at Cascade PBS and KNKX

Author of "Seattle Among First U.S. Cities to Appoint a Chief AI Officer"

Nathan Brake

Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer at Mozilla AI

Author of "Run Any LLM with a Single API: Introducing any-llm v1.0" in Mozilla AI Blog

Nathan Cloos

Researcher

MetaConscious Group

Author of "AI Gamestore: Scalable, Open-Ended Evaluation of Machine General Intelligence wi" on arXiv

Co-authored G-AUDIT tool paper on detecting spurious correlations in medical AI.

Nathan Drezner

Engineer

Product Manager at LangChain

Co-authored announcement of Managed Deep Agents v0.8 with support for user-owned credentials, memory, and HTTP channels.

Co-founder and CTO of Coefficient Bio, previously served as principal scientist at Biogen until September 2025.

Author discussing Andrew Ng's views on Chinese open-source AI models and their competitive advantages, with quotes from Kai-Fu Lee and Eric Schmidt on AI policy.

Co-authored research finding no detectable effect of AI on recent employment trends across most exposure measures.

Engineer working with Clémentine Fourrier on evaluation and leaderboards at Hugging Face.

Los Angeles County District Attorney expressing concerns about using AI in criminal cases, particularly motion to suppress and post-conviction relief cases.

Nathan LeBrasseur

Researcher

Professor & Director at Mayo Clinic

Laboratory mentor of Sarah Jachim who studies aging and senescent cells.

Co-leading a project on AI music notation recognition and analysis.

Nathan Rifkin

Executive

Co-CEO at Scale to Win

Co-CEO warning of risks from using generative AI in political campaigns including false information and harmful statements.

Co-authored research on operationalization of opaque serial depth and chain-of-thought monitorability

Byline author of guide on 20 techniques for getting cited in AI answer engines.

Created Stringman, a cable-driven robotic claw system powered by LeRobot-based firmware for household automation.

Nathaniel Rochester collaborated with McCarthy and Minsky to organize the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence.

Author of DecisionRAG retrieval research paper

Co-authored research on simple self-distillation for code generation at Apple.

Naveen Chhabra

Investor

Principal Analyst at Forrester

Analyzed how Nvidia gains visibility into customer AI model preferences through Hugging Face acquisition.

28-year-old computer science graduate and only male member who serves as the group's link to the outside world

Managing Partner at Mayfield venture capital firm; investor in Upscale AI's Series A-1 round.

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

Nayel Rehman

Creator

Co-developer of WiFind, an AI-powered search-and-rescue system using Wi-Fi signals.

Nayeon Lee

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Wrote article on China's first humanoid robot fighting tournament and EngineAI T800 technology.

CEO of Accenture Song who quoted on Netomi's agentic AI platform enabling brands to deliver empathetic customer experience at scale.

Neal Lathia

Founder

Co-founder at Gradient Labs

Former Monzo employee who co-founded Gradient Labs to build specialist AI agents for financial services.

Quoted about expanding partnership with Adobe and bringing creative tools into Gemini.

Neal Wadhwa

Researcher

Researcher at Google

Co-author of MultiGen research on video world models and interactive simulation for multiplayer games.

Neal Wu

Engineer

Coder at Thinking Machines Lab

Coder who won three gold medals in a programming Olympiad and was hired by Thinking Machines Lab.

Co-authored Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research report on AI's impact on labor markets.

Consciousness researcher who participated in conference on AI consciousness organized by Dmitry Volkov.

Co-authored Nature article on why AI is not conscious and likely never will be.

Organizer of the CVPR 2025 Workshop Challenge on few-shot object detection

Co-authored research on the critical role of strategic workforce planning in the age of AI and how gen AI has increased uncertainty about workforce skills.

Co-founder and CTO of K2 Space, a customer of Sift's AI-controlled hardware infrastructure platform.

VC partner who traveled to Shenzhen and Beijing to assess China's technological advances in robotics and data collection.

Described how IBM uses AI to give new engineers harder assignments sooner, with juniors handling 70-80% of senior-level tasks.

Leads network operations and AI agent deployment at Microsoft for managing connectivity incidents across 900+ sites.

Byline author reporting on Anthropic Project Glasswing finding 10,000+ critical software vulnerabilities using Claude Mythos Preview model.

Wrote article about Tesla beginning construction of dedicated Optimus humanoid robot factory at Gigafactory Texas.

NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer presenting on AI physics and simulation at SIGGRAPH 2026.

Stated PTC's work with NVIDIA supports connected design and simulation workflows.

Neil C Hughes

Journalist

Contributor at Cybernews

Byline author analyzing Utah's Stratos Project data center, Kevin O'Leary's involvement, and AI's energy demands.

Co-led research on surfacing pathological behaviors in language models using reinforcement learning and propensity bounds.

Had a deepfake used in a scam ad falsely promoting erectile dysfunction medication.

Co-authored research using AI to analyze GLP-1 side effects from social media data, identifying unreported patient experiences.

Commented on the Hugging Face incident as an 'impressive feat' and criticized OpenAI's safe deployment capabilities.

Senior VP of Amazon Health Services discusses how Health AI brings together fragmented health information to give patients a complete picture of their health.

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

Author of "ASML Announces Breakthrough in EUV Light Source to Boost Chip Output" in New Electronics

Announced AI licensing deals with Microsoft and OpenAI, describing Microsoft's publisher content marketplace as a pay-per-use model for AI companies to compensate publishers.

Released 'Nightborne', his first short film generated entirely by AI using Seedance video generation model, and founded AI film studio.

Nela Richardson

Researcher

Chief Economist at ADP

ADP's chief economist partnering with Brynjolfsson on research showing AI is disrupting tasks from the bottom up, not jobs from the top down.

Said CCC is a business made better by AI, not worse, explaining private equity valuation approach to software under AI disruption concerns.

Nelson Spruston is Janelia's executive director working on understanding brain structure and function using transparent fish models and AI.

Discussed collaboration with Google on NowAI-Bench and Gemini 4 Argon's performance improvements on enterprise workflows.

Neta Shaul

Researcher

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Byline author on Parallel Decoding Distillation for accelerating video generation in diffusion models.

Co-author of fraud research examining how founder-investor dynamics enable fraudulent behavior.

Director of Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation; prior work on reaching motion extended by new therapy robot.

Co-discovered Agentjacking attack exploiting Sentry and AI coding agents.

Fields Medal winner (2010) joining prominent mathematicians in warning about AI's misalignment with the discipline's core values.

Author on paper introducing Kalman Delta Networks for uncertainty-aware associative memory in LLMs.

Author of "tcgen05 for Dummies" in Personal Blog

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering discussing China's dominance in open-source AI models at the 2025 OpenAtom Developers Conference.

Analyst describing OpenAI's Instant Checkout as technology demonstration and commenting on challenges of focused consumer product strategy.

Angel investor in Prime Intellect's $130M Series A funding round.

Niccolo de Masi

Executive

Chairman & CEO at IonQ

Announced IonQ's $1.3B acquisition of zero-trust security firm Elisity to protect AI agent networks.

Nicholas Arcolano

Other

Chief Scientist at Jellyfish

Chief scientist at Jellyfish who discussed AI tool adoption and spending trends among software developers.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Nicholas Charriere

Founder

Tech Founder at Mocha

Noted the fine line between using AI to be productive and being a meat proxy.

Nicholas Gordon

Journalist

Editor, Asia at Fortune

Reported SK Hynix's record $26.5 billion US listing, largest ever by a foreign company.

Co-author of IRIS study, helped develop model that infers signaling pathways to guide stem cell differentiation in regenerative medicine.

Co-author on Microsoft's O-Voxel and sparse compression VAE research for 3D generation.

Author of "LLM Novice Uplift on Dual-Use, In Silico Biology Tasks" on arXiv

Nicholas Lin

Engineer

Anthropic

Author of "Advancing Claude for Financial Services" in Anthropic

Nicholas Lourie

Researcher

Researcher

Lourie authored a paper showing that small models can predict scaling laws if hyperparameters are tuned correctly.

Nicholas Marwell

Researcher

RL Lead at Anthropic

Discussed on American Optimist podcast how confusing the future will be for most people if AI development continues as planned.

Analyzed SpaceX's Starlink revenue and subscriber growth as the company's profitable business line funding AI expansion.

Co-authored G-AUDIT research on bias detection in medical AI training data.

Nicholas Thorne

Founder

Cofounder at Audos

Cofounder of Audos, previously appeared on the podcast in March 2024.

Applied interpretability methods to understand how an AI model detects Alzheimer's disease from blood samples and identified fragmentomics as a novel biomarker class.

Co-authored research paper on AI-assisted ultrasound for maternal care assessment.

Journalist who attended White House AI event and reported on atmosphere and announcements.

Nick Beckstead

Executive

CEO at Secure AI Project

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Byline author on Cursor's cloud agent development environment systems.

Nick Davidov

Investor

Co-founder at Davidovs VC

VC expert quoted discussing how AI costs will decrease over time and IT budgets will shift toward AI investment.

Nick Dobos

Creator

Prompt Engineer

Argues that timing, taste, and opinionated products remain the real competitive moat despite AI coding tools lowering execution barriers.

Videographer for the production.

Contrasted small, open, locally deployable models with large, expensive, proprietary systems like Mythos/Fable as a model strategy.

Author of article about PagedAttention and virtual memory for KV cache.

Stanford researcher studying therapeutic potential of LLMs and their inadequate responses to mental health conditions.

COO of Motif Neurotech who led the IDE submission to FDA for clinical trials.

Manager at Anthropic under whom Andrej Karpathy joins the pre-training team.

Nick Mcginnis

Engineer

product and UX design lead at Google

Collaborated on the brand identity definition for NotebookLM.

Works on Codex and insisted on social media that the goblin system prompt issue was not a marketing gimmick.

Nick Patience

Researcher

AI Lead at The Futurum Group

Noted Meta's re-embrace of open weights was response to Chinese labs taking large share of open-weight market over two years.

Nick Perry

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Candid Health

Led Candid Health in automating revenue cycle management using AI agents, achieving 190% YoY ARR growth.

Nick Pizzo, co-author of the GOFLOW study, discussed how AI can help understand ocean dynamics and vertical mixing through real-world satellite observations.

Nick Robins-Early

Journalist

The Guardian

Author of "Elon's Feud with Sam Altman Just Went Nuclear"

Informed OpenAI President Greg Brockman about a hack found for OpenAI crawlers to bypass NYT paywall.

Nick Tikhonov

Creator

ntik.me

Author of "How I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent" in ntik.me

Nick Tornow

Executive

Senior Vice President at Roblox

Co-authored announcement of Build, Roblox's AI-powered game creation tool that converts text prompts into playable 3D games.

Involved in Getty Images' multi-year licensing deal with Perplexity to display images across AI-powered search tools.

Community practitioner from One North who created /cc-figma-component skill for generating Figma components from JSON.

47-year-old patient with hypotony who participated in the study and described restoration of vision enabling near-normal activities.

Nico Laqua

Founder

Co-Founder And CEO at Corgi

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Corgi, which raised $160M Series B for its AI-native full-stack insurance carrier platform.

Co-author of the 200+ WebGPU Kernels library for browser-based AI inference.

Angel investor participating in General Intuition's $320M Series A funding round.

Announced EIB backing of NEURA Robotics, supporting Physical AI and cognitive robotics development in Europe.

Missing hiker whose body was found using AI-powered drone technology after 10 months in the Italian Alps

Author of "How to Create an Effective Prompt for Nano Banana Pro" in Radical Curiosity

Nicolai Ouporov

Executive

Co-founder and CEO at Fleet AI

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Founded Telepatia, an AI Doctor platform designed to help physicians identify and prevent medical errors.

Nicolas Bareil was a co-author of the Unit 42 investigation documenting how frontier AI models were used to execute a rapid, coordinated ransomware attack.

Co-author of the paper on Discriminator-Guided RL for flow matching models, affiliated with FAIR.

Finance leader and influencer quoted on AI adoption in financial planning, comparing it to Excel's impact 40 years ago.

Actor in Lord of War (2005) whose character serves as metaphor for Jensen Huang's role in GPU distribution

Spanish MEP discussing Europe's strategic vulnerability in AI and concerns about US and Chinese dominance.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

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

Tested impact of tool argument naming on agent performance with Claude models.

Nicole Brichtova

Creator

Author of "Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade"

Byline author of article on how AI tools have made game cloning a weekend project for people with no programming skill.

Co-author of the article about robots playing badminton

Waymo executive stating goal to bring autonomous rides to more people through partnership with Lyft.

Co-conducted international survey on AI trust and acceptance across 47 countries with 48,000 participants.

Henning worked with the MIT team to develop ultrasound-guided injection methods and monitoring techniques for the injectable liver cell grafts.

Left Amazon senior manager role to co-found Datalinx AI, an AI data refinery startup.

AI advisor demonstrating methods for building portable AI workflows across multiple platforms using skills and external storage.

Leading Wellcome Sanger Institute's participation in Biohub's Virtual Biology Initiative for AI-accelerated biological discovery.

Co-authored announcement about Google's Project Genie update with Street View integration for interactive AI worlds.

Leading Accenture's new market unit focused on taking AI to the next level in 2026

Nicole Winfield

Journalist

Journalist at AP News

AP News journalist reporting on Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical launch with Christopher Olah from Anthropic.

Author of "Chinese Doctors Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant"

Nicolò Lucchesi

Engineer

vLLM

Co-author of technical post on push-based KV transfer improvements in vLLM for disaggregated inference.

Co-authored 2006 'Model Compression' paper on ensemble model compression.

Branded the Google antitrust ruling 'a complete failure' and criticized it for not adequately addressing monopoly power harms.