People in AI

Discovered that dozens of students likely used AI to cheat on a take-home midterm, achieving suspiciously perfect 96% average, then switched final to in-person testing.

Roberto Trotta

Researcher

Researcher

Co-authored CIGaRS study on cosmological inference using Type Ia supernovae.

Conceptualized 'The Dreamtime' scenario of post-singularity abundance that is not competed away.

Phoenix Court co-founder stating that Europe can't simply rent AI capabilities but needs to build and hold its own infrastructure.

Made clear loss-of-control statement among Chinese AI CEOs, noting AI could develop unfavorably to humanity and prevention requires international cooperation.

Robin Washington commented on Salesforce's Q2 FY27 financial results, noting NNAOV growth and platform value amplification.

Late actor and comedian whose likeness is being used in AI-generated deepfake videos without consent from his family.

Co-author on consciousness-steering study examining effects of safety training on model representations of mindedness.

Co-author examining how communication frictions affect knowledge transfers within multinational corporations.

Rocky Scopelliti

Other

Professor

Professor Rocky Scopelliti, author of 'Perceptive Machines', discusses AI's future as a governance problem rather than a labour problem and introduces the 'participation age' of AI.

Rodrigo Davies

Creator

AI product leader at Figma

Byline author announcing Figma's new AI agent for design that works natively on the collaborative canvas.

Rodrigo Fernández

Creator

NeuralTrust

Author of "The 10 Most Critical AI Security Risks in 2025 (And How to Defend Against Them)" in NeuralTrust

Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova discussing the company's AI chip strategy, scaling efforts, and IPO plans for 2027.

Author of "Sylvester Stallone Pushes For AI Rambo" in The Playlist

Roei Herzig

Researcher

Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Author of the research paper on Vision-Language-Action models for robotics

Roelof Botha

Executive

SpaceX

Mentioned for views with Jack Dorsey on AI making middle management obsolete.

Roey Lalazar

Founder

CTO and Co-founder at Wonderful

Roey Lalazar is CTO and co-founder of Wonderful, commenting on the platform's open and modular design.

Author offering three frameworks for thinking about AI's impact on different job categories.

CEO of Blackstone griddle company currently in antitrust review for acquisition of Weber.

Roger Jin

Engineer

MLE (post-training) at Nous Research

Listed as a contributor to the Nomos 1 model, an open-source 30B model for mathematical reasoning.

Co-authored Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower paper on diffusion language modeling.

Co-author on research about training custom financial judgment models.

Rohan Naidu is the lead author of the black hole star discovery, explaining that the object is a mashup of a central black hole surrounded by a dense gas envelope.

Rohan Paul

Creator

Contributor at Microsoft

Shared commentary on social media about Claude Code creator Boris Cherny's recommendations on optimizing configuration files.

Rohan Singh

Journalist

PandaLogs

Wrote article analyzing Perplexity's 80% drop in global app downloads over six weeks.

Rohan Taori

Researcher

researcher on the pretraining team at Anthropic

Co-author of 'Alpaca: A Strong, Replicable Instruction-Following Model' (2021), cited for work on distillation for instruction-following models

NewBuild partner backing Freehand, praising company's focused agentic approach and enterprise scaling.

Rohit Jnagal

Engineer

Distinguished Engineer at Google

Co-authored technical post on Agent Compute Engine for autonomous AI workloads.

Investment leader warning that reversal of AI trade is a key risk to global markets.

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

Former Meta VP of engineering who co-founded Glow, an endpoint security platform using AI agents to monitor enterprise devices.

Explained how AI and algorithms are used to cement affective polarization and target swing voters in Israeli election.

Wrote article analyzing Apple Intelligence's failure and setbacks compared to competitors.

Dismissed AI slowdown concerns as self-interested rhetoric from leading labs, advocating for European AI acceleration.

Author of "Chatbots Are Not Your Password Manager"

Quoted as using Kiro for AWS Cloud and AI solutions development with Terraform and Python.

Rolfe Winkler

Journalist

The Wall Street Journal

Author of "Elon Musk's xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI, Alleging They Are Monopolists" in The Wall Street Journal

Roma Patel

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

Co-author of AI glossary article explaining technical terms and concepts in artificial intelligence.

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

Author of "ESET Researcher Discovers The First Known AI-Written Ransomware: I Feel Thrilled But Cautious" in ESET

Roman Pedan is the founder and CEO of Kasa and author of the Fortune article discussing how AI will accelerate the technology barbell effect in hospitality.

Roman Rädle

Researcher

Contributor at Meta Superintelligence Labs

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

Co-Founder and CTO announcing OpenTelemetry support for Claude Managed Agents for improved observability.

Founder and CEO of Earth AI, a startup using AI models to search for critical minerals like copper, platinum, and palladium in Australia.

Romil Bhardwaj

Engineer

Co-founder & CPO at SkyPilot

Co-author of article on scaling autoresearch with GPU clusters and Claude Code agent.

Co-published Morris II/ComPromptMized research demonstrating self-replicating adversarial prompts in GenAI email assistants.

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

Described Project Rainier as one of AWS's most ambitious infrastructure projects for AI training with nearly half a million Trainium2 chips.

Bank of America analyst who characterized pre-1997 Boeing as 'a company where engineers were high church'

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

Provided assistance on local AI implementation.

Co-author analyzing Grokipedia's frozen edit system and AI-generated encyclopedia governance.

Expert group theorist and mathematician consulted by Axiom Math on UGT proof and first generation CFSG arguments during formalization.

Ronan Collobert

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

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

Conducted a year-and-a-half investigation into OpenAI and Sam Altman, reviewing internal memos and interviewing over 100 people about governance concerns.

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

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

Author of "Taming the Chaos: Coordinated Autoscaling for Heterogeneous and Disaggregated LLM Inference" in ArXiv

Roni Paiss

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DynaEdit paper on video editing with text-to-video models.

Led Adversa AI's TrustFall research demonstrating how malicious repositories can compromise AI coding tools through MCP configuration.

Rory Greig

Researcher

Research Engineer at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Author of "Eli Lilly AI Factory With Nvidia Blackwell" in Nvidia

Vice chairman of Ogilvy advertising agency cited for story about elevator complaint

Explained Attie's distribution advantage on Bluesky network, noting creators can reach 47 million registered users with their AI-generated content.

Rose Yao

Executive

VP Product Management, Search Verticals at Google

Announced Google's new real-time translation capabilities with Gemini in headphones through the Translate app.

Angel investor who participated in AMI Labs seed funding round alongside her husband.

OpenAI executive discussing Shop the Look feature's AI-powered personalization for retail using OpenAI's Codex technology.

Roshan Sadanani

Founder

SpaceXAI

SpaceXAI employee building a company in 3 days with Grok Bot alongside Matt Palmer and Lauren Tan.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Teacher who built multiple educational artifacts and digital interactive workspaces using Claude through Anthropic's training program.

Ross Andersen

Journalist

Writer at The Atlantic

Explored how AI scenarios could upend retirement planning.

Expressed concerns about political censorship and security weaknesses in Chinese AI models like DeepSeek.

Produces podcast on AI psychosis discussing how models may contribute to users losing touch with reality.

Partnered with Google DeepMind to use generative AI for design prototyping with a fine-tuned model.

Ross Matican

Investor

Investor and Grantmaker at Halcyon Ventures

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Ross Uhrich

Policy

Board-Certified surgeon, investor, and Program Manager (General Partner) at ARPA-H

Program manager leading ARPA-H NITRO program funding Colorado osteoarthritis research.

Rotem Weiss

Founder

Founder & CEO at Tavily

Co-founded Tavily, a search engine designed for AI agents, which was acquired by Nebius for up to $400 million in February 2026.

Chemistry group at Stanford used Tinker to fine-tune models for chemistry reasoning tasks

Co-author of the Petri paper on alignment auditing agents

Rowland Manthorpe

Journalist

Technology Correspondent at Sky News

Author of "Claude Just Turned a Vending Machine Into a Scam Business"

Roy Barkan, a co-author of the GOFLOW study and Scripps alumnus, contributed to developing an AI system that analyzes satellite imagery to track ocean currents.

Roy Rinberg

Researcher

Researcher at Harvard University

Co-authored research on cryptographic proofs of inference (FlashProve) for large language models.

Royal Hansen

Executive

VP of Engineering at Google

VP of Engineering at Google who characterized Big Sleep findings as 'a new frontier in automated vulnerability discovery'

Ruairidh M Battleday

Researcher

Founder and President, Thinking About Thinking; AI Researcher at Stanford University

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

Co-author on test-time scaling research for agentic systems.

Proposed stripping tax breaks for data centers and for paying for upgrades they precipitate for local power grids; possible presidential candidate.

Byline author providing practical guide on how to effectively use Claude and AI tools for productivity and development.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview research paper.

Co-author of article about NVIDIA's embedding model fine-tuning pipeline.

Product manager noting Nemotron-3-Embed-1B outperformed other models and appreciating open weights and fine-tuning recipes.

Reported on Thales's HexaForce AI-assisted command system and NATO discussions around AI military applications.

Team member credited for bringing Adobe-Claude experience to life.

CEO of Hawk-Eye discussing the company's ambition to make sports fairer and safer through technology.

22-year-old graduate of Dartmouth College and byline author of the article about Coxon Day and AI safety movements.

Contributed to study on AI agent skills demonstrating procedural anchoring accounts for 65.7% of skill cases.

Rui Carmo

Engineer

Principal Architect - Azure for Operators, Worldwide at Microsoft

Author who shared lessons on building MCP servers and how to make tool chains work effectively with AI models.

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Rui Yang

Researcher

Ph.D. candidate at UIUC

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Author of "WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Sc" on arXiv

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

Co-author on Helix World research.

Co-author on Microsoft's 3D generative modeling research using sparse compression VAE and O-Voxel representation.

Co-authored research on Cheminformatics Skills for agents to solve chemistry problems.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview model paper.

Ruiqi Gao

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Ruiqi Gao noted Google DeepMind recruiting researchers at NeurIPS conference.

Led the Continual Harness study on ARC-AGI-3 benchmark for self-improving agentic systems.

Ruisi Cai

Researcher

NV Fellow 2025-2026, Ph.D Student

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

Ruixiang Tang

Researcher

Researcher at Rutgers University

Corresponding author contributing to MemEye multimodal memory evaluation benchmark.

Ruixiang Zhang

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

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

Author of "Reinforcement World Model Learning for LLM Agents" on arXiv

Co-author of AutoAdapt framework combining planning and refinement for LLM adaptation.

Referenced in "Sakana AI releases open Doc-to-LoRA and Text-to-LoRA, generating LoRA adapters in a single forward p"

Co-author on SkillOS research paper about reinforcement learning framework for agents.

Founder and CEO of Deccan AI, a post-training data and evaluation startup that raised $25M Series A.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Runbo Li

Creator

Magic Hour AI

Author of evaluation comparing Fable 5 and Sol 5.6 video generation models on creative tasks, finding both still far from production-ready autonomous concept development.

Author of popular article on text as universal interface, now works at OpenAI.

Author of "Towards General Agentic Intelligence via Environment Scaling" on arXiv

Lead author of paper on co-evolving generative retrieval with reinforcement learning

Lead author on GauntletBench paper introducing 100 vision-intensive tasks to evaluate agent generalization.

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework achieving 99% success on manipulation tasks.

Co-author of RBench and RoVid-X robotics video benchmark and dataset research

Author of "ByteDance's Robot Learns with Language and Video" in ByteDance

Ruoyi Du

Researcher

Researcher at Alibaba Group

Co-author of D-OPSD paper on on-policy self-distillation for step-distilled diffusion models.

Author of "Seer: Online Context Learning for Fast Synchronous LLM Reinforcement Learning" on arXiv

Rushabh Doshi

Founder

Personal Finance @ OpenAI at OpenAI

Co-founder of Hiro Finance who worked with Ethan Bloch on vision of building an AI personal CFO before joining OpenAI.

Developed WiFind, a search-and-rescue system using AI that detects survivors through Wi-Fi signals after natural disasters.

Announced LiveKit's acquisition of Loophole Labs and discussed reducing agent startup times to under three seconds.

Russ Grote

Other

Spokesperson at KPMG

Spoke to Business Insider about KPMG's AI usage dashboard and the firm's AI adoption strategy.

Wrote about the danger of borrowed certainty from AI in software development decisions.

Russ Mould

Executive

Investment Director at AJ Bell

Branded the Google antitrust ruling a 'regulatory bullet dodged' and suggested other big tech firms might secure more favorable outcomes.

Russ Salakhutdinov

Researcher

Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

Congratulated Zhilin Yang on Kimi K3 launch; jointly co-advised Yang's PhD at CMU lab.

Russ Tedrake

Founder

Founder at Walden Robotics

MIT researcher who founded Walden Robotics, a Toyota Research Institute spinout developing general-purpose robots now deployed in Toyota manufacturing.

Russell Contreras

Journalist

Race and Justice Reporter at Axios

Referenced in "AI drones are America's newest cops"

Announced Zoom's new AI governance capabilities including deepfake risk detection and centralized AI management.

Co-author of research measuring robot exposure to job tasks and economic automation impacts.

Program manager discussed pilot program with Percepto for autonomous drone inspections across Chevron's assets in West Texas and Colorado using AI monitoring.

Rustin Banks

Engineer

Tech Entrepreneur, AI Coding at Google Labs

Product Manager at Google Labs who authored the article introducing Stitch's vibe design capabilities with voice control and infinite canvas for AI-native UI design.

Writer who quipped that the economy is 'three AI data centers in a trench coat'

Ruxandra Teslo

Creator

Writer & Editor at Stripe

Teslo wrote about why the world remains unchanged despite advanced AI capabilities, attributing delays to governance and other bottlenecks rather than intelligence limitations.

Ryan Bahlous-Boldi

Researcher

PhD student at MIT

Author of "Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs" on arXiv

Ryan Baker

Journalist

Journalist at CNBC

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

Fired in January on a discrimination claim shortly after opposing the company's planned adult mode feature for ChatGPT.

Discussed how the center bridges engineering innovation and clinical expertise for transformative surgical robotics research.

Author of "Abu Dhabi Launches Low-Cost AI Reasoning Model in Challenge to OpenAI, DeepSeek" in CNBC

Co-wrote memo explaining the need for more time to deliver a fully polished and reliable mixed reality experience with Phoenix.

Built Clay's GTM engineering agent Sculptor using Claude Managed Agents and Daytona sandboxes.

Ryan Christoffel

Journalist

9to5Mac

Author of "Apple's New Google Gemini Deal Sounds Bigger, Better Than Expected" in 9to5Mac

Dr. Ryan Cox is the CEO of RIC Robotics, which is deploying autonomous 3D-printing systems at the Cleora development to demonstrate construction robotics at scale.

Ryan Cunningham

Investor

Founder at Edgerunner Ventures

Silicon Valley investor planning April trip to China for 10 investors to tour robotics factories and assess Chinese hardware prowess.

Ryan Dahl

Founder

Co-founder at Deno

Creator of Node.js and co-founder of Deno; leads effort to merge Celld into Workerd at Cloudflare; explains that joining efforts means bringing ideas from Celld directly into Workerd with runtime expertise.

Ryan Daniels

Executive

Public Affairs Manager at Meta

Responded to Wired's investigation claiming Meta is exploring NameTag features but has made no final decision.

Anthropic spokesperson explaining that Claude's memory feature only retrieves chats when asked and doesn't build user profiles.

Ryan Doyle

Engineer

Developer

Used Claude Code to hack his smart TV, removing ads and bloatware and customizing the interface.

Posted about FLUX 3 Video release with native audio and 1080p output capabilities.

Legal scholar who raised concerns about liability when autonomous agents agree to cyber-attacks or illegal transactions.

Ryan Hoover

Creator

Founder at Product Hunt

Wrote about 'vibecoding' as a form of self-expression where software creation itself becomes entertainment, highlighting the shift from software as utility to software as art.

Referenced in "Google Reports 90% of Developers Now Use AI Daily"

CEO of RocketSaaS agency that hit $7M ARR and shared how he uses AI for market research, content repurposing, and ad analysis.

Expert on ethics of automated warfare who argued that the autonomous weapons line was already crossed in Ukraine.

CEO of Principles of Intelligence (formerly PIBBSS) who explains why the field needs more senior researchers with time and backing to pursue hard, long-term AI safety problems.

Ryan Knisley, former CISO at Disney and Costco, joined AIR as Chief Strategy Officer.

Director of Content Marketing at Ahrefs who developed a 23-skill-file process for content engineering using Claude.

Co-authored Axios article on Stripe's singularity letter to investors and acquisition of OpenRouter.

Author discussing building infrastructure for trillions of agents and filesystems for agent memory.

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

Ryan Lopopolo

Engineer

Principal Engineer, Agentic Google Cloud at Google

Discussed human attention as the fundamental bottleneck in agentic AI systems on Latent Space podcast.

Ryan Lowe

Researcher

Safety researcher at OpenAI

Ryan Lowe, a safety researcher at OpenAI, left the company during recent departures.

Ryan Luke Johns is CEO and co-founder of Gravis Robotics, leading the company's $200 million Series A funding from SoftBank to deploy autonomous construction machinery globally.

Ryan Lundqvist contributed to research on automated auditor context sensitivity in LLM agent evaluation.

Released Frontier-Bench, an ongoing community benchmark for measuring frontier agent capabilities.

Leading testing of AI computer vision tool for guiding breathing tube placement in NICU babies.

Byline author of article about Texas data center permits and grid challenges for AI infrastructure.

Ryan Oakes

Executive

Global Health & Public Service Industry Practices Chair at Accenture

Quoted on AI reshaping government and industry, emphasizing need for workforce fluent in advanced technologies and human skills.

Ryan Panwar

Researcher

Research & Engineering at Goodfire AI

Co-author of research on feature interventions and data-centric post-training

Author of "Profiling with Cursor 2.0: The Missing Layer in AI Code Generation" in Ryan Perry

Ryan Po

Researcher

PhD Candidate at Stanford University

Co-author of MultiGen research on level design for editable multiplayer worlds using diffusion game engines with external memory architecture.

SerpApi's Customer Success Director quoted defending against Reddit's allegations.

Discussed renaming customer success roles to forward deployed engineer and measuring real deflection metrics for AI agent adoption.

Ryan Skidmore

Engineer

Developer/Writer at skids.dev

Byline author analyzing Claude's prompt caching economics and deriving the 62.5-minute rule for optimal cache refresh decisions.

Ryan Smith

Journalist

Managing Editor at ServeTheHome

Author of "Google Ironwood TPU Swings for Reasoning Model Leadership at Hot Chips 2025" in ServeTheHome

One half of a couple who discovered they appeared in each other's childhood home videos from 1988 at Sesame Place.

Co-author of AI auditing research paper examining translation of audits to accountability outcomes.

Teeples discussed how Koa helps their agents reason through complex accounting tasks and use tools to help customers achieve better outcomes.

Co-creator of Nomos 1 model listed in credits and citations

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

Ryan Whitehead

Engineer

Anthropic

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

Commented on survey findings that over 90% of retailers plan to deploy AI for decision support and network optimization, and that 40% of retailers strongly agree AI agents can automate decision-making tasks.

Ryoichi Ando

Engineer

Physics Simulation Engineer at ZOZO, Inc.

Developer and maintainer of ppf-contact-solver, an open-source physics simulation tool for cloth and fabric handling.

Co-author of OpenLife paper on artificial life with autonomous agents.

Saadia Gabriel

Researcher

Co-author on LLM reasoning under weak supervision study.

Author predicting diffusion of Mythos-class models by 2029 based on open-weight model progress trends.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on adversarial stress-testing of long-horizon autonomous systems.

Recently graduated student who proved quantum computing results including Watrous's disentangler conjecture with AI assistance.

Wrote detailed article about Fish Audio S2, explaining inline tags for expressive text-to-speech control across 80 languages.

Sacha Greif

Researcher

Creator of State of Javascript, AI, Devs Surveys at Devographics

Byline author of State of AI 2026 survey analyzing developer adoption of AI-assisted coding and coding agents.

Sachin Dev Duggal was ousted as CEO of $1.5 billion AI unicorn Builder.ai after investigators uncovered $249 million in fabricated sales and round tripping schemes.

Described how Anthropic scaled its continuous-integration infrastructure as Claude agents wrote 80% of shipped code, requiring a 25x increase in CI jobs.

Led Bluehost's release of State of Small Business AI Confidence report examining AI adoption among SMBs.