People in AI

Co-founder of Merge Labs who has pioneered new approaches to brain-computer interfaces.

Semiconductor professor at University of Texas at Austin who chose to return to Tsinghua University in China in 2020 despite lucrative tenure in the U.S.

Discussed how Irregular is one of few entities with technical expertise to conduct cutting-edge security testing on foundation models.

Uber's former chief product officer who joined Mercor as president earlier this year.

Co-founder and CEO of Rebellions, an AI inference infrastructure company raising $400M in pre-IPO funding.

Sungjin Ahn

Researcher

Researcher at KAIST

Co-author of research on Generative Recursive Reasoning models.

Sungnyun Kim

Researcher

Author of "Mixture-of-Recursions" on arXiv

Sunil Pedapudi

Engineer

Software Engineer at Google

Technical lead at Google Data Cloud collaborating on agent evaluation framework using surprisal-based query refinement.

Sunil Sheth

Researcher

Associate Professor of Neurology at UTHealth Houston

Co-founder of Motif Neurotech developing XCS therapy for depression treatment.

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

Sunita Williams

Researcher

Astronaut at NASA

NASA astronaut who launched on Starliner Crew Flight Test 1 in 2024 and spent nine months in orbit waiting for return.

Sunny Tang

Researcher

Psychiatrist and Researcher at Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

Built a machine learning model to analyze speech content and meaning flow to distinguish schizophrenia patients from healthy controls with 87% accuracy; hoping to have tool ready for clinical trials in 2030.

Building causally grounded, clinician-interpretable AI for head and neck cancer that predicts and explains outcome drivers.

Wu led a research team finding that AI use reduces intrinsic motivation by 11% and increases boredom by 20% on subsequent unaided tasks.

Co-author of the article about DeepMind's generative AI design project

Co-author of research on magnetically-powered millirobots for medical applications.

Yahoo Finance reporter covering Uber's massive AI spending surge and budget overrun from engineers using Claude Code and other AI coding tools.

Surbhi Misra

Journalist

TLDR Newsletter Link

Author of "Musk says xAI to take legal action against Apple over App Store rankings" in TLDR Newsletter Link

Economics director commenting on stronger-than-expected November GDP growth and business confidence post-Budget

Surendra Reddy

Creator

451 Ventures

LinkedIn author who wrote about trust as enterprise AI's true bottleneck rather than intelligence.

Co-chair of IETF AI Preferences working group acknowledged in the robots.txt policy token draft.

CTO of Walmart Global who spoke at the Retail Rewired innovation event about the confusion that multiple agents could create

Enterprise AI startup CEO discussing challenge of evaluating rapid model releases on exponential curves.

Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Researcher

Computer Science Professor at Brown University

Discussed challenges in funding independent AI evaluators and the need for a viable business model in the AI evaluation ecosystem.

Co-author of Microsoft security research on npm worm supply chain attack.

Founder and CEO of Ema, scaling AI Employees that automate enterprise HR, IT, and finance workflows across Fortune 500 companies.

Former Yahoo President who joined Nscale's Board of Directors bringing financial acumen and governance expertise.

EVP & Chief Impact Officer commenting on UMG's commitment to expanding fan experiences through physical retail stores.

Wrote article about Mayo Clinic's AI breakthrough in early pancreatic cancer detection published on April 29, 2026.

Consciousness researcher and director of AI center who participated in conference on AI consciousness.

Left her position as YouTube CEO in 2023 due to fatal cancer, succeeded by Neal Mohan.

Susan Zhang provides snarky but accurate commentary on DeepSeek V3.2 model releases and capabilities on social media.

Susanna Ray

Executive

Microsoft

Author of "Microsoft highlights a shift to a collaborative workflow" in Microsoft

Contributing expertise in Earth system modeling to DL4MCS project for improving mesoscale convective system predictions.

Sushanth Raman

Executive

Founder and CEO at Pallet

Announced launch of Custom Models for supply chain teams to enable enterprises to build proprietary AI models with control over compute and data.

Susie Kelleher co-authored an article on leadership practices for turning AI ambition into enterprise value.

Suvodip Moitra

Executive

Senior Product Manager at Microsoft

Senior product manager for Smart Bonding Agent at Microsoft, managing AI-driven handoff coordination across systems.

Indian physicist who worked on TheoPhysEval benchmark and noted that GPT-6-Astra found errors in expert-supplied answers, achieving 98% accuracy.

Suz Chambers

Engineer

Director, Google Creative Lab at Google

Co-author of Google Blog post about Project Genie, an interactive AI world-building prototype.

Published opinion piece on China-US AI race, arguing that treating competition solely as capability race could disadvantage US influence on global AI adoption.

Suzanne Wang

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Author of "Anthropic Launches Claude Agent SDK for Building Versatile AI Agents" in Anthropic

Co-led research on forecasting benchmark accuracy from zero-scoring models using hinted variants.

Sven Elflein

Researcher

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Sven Elflein co-authored WorldTrace, a training-free framework for video world models.

Announced Gap's integration of checkout directly into Google's Gemini chatbot, making Gap the first major fashion retailer to do so

Sven Sauleau

Engineer

Cloudflare

Author of "How Cloudflare Runs More AI Models on Fewer GPUs: A Technical Deep-Dive" in Cloudflare Blog

Presented Samsung's AI TV lineup combining hardware excellence and visual intelligence for entertainment experiences.

Co-authored technical blog post about Granite 4.2 LLMs architecture and training methodology.

Team member credited for Adobe-Claude integration work.

Swati Khandelwal

Journalist

Cyber Security Expert and Technical Writer at The Hacker News

Author reporting on high-severity OAuth flaw in official MCP Python SDK affecting AI agent security.

Experimented with Autoresearch following the hype and demonstrated it could be used beyond model training.

Developed rapid water contamination test that uses urobilin detection with smartphone camera integration.

Swen Vincke

Executive

CEO at Larian Studios

Clarified that Larian will not use generative AI for concept art or writing in Divinity and addressed AI usage concerns.

Swetha Sridhar

Journalist

Byline author of the Portkey Gateway launch article discussing open-source AI infrastructure.

Sydney Lake

Journalist

Associate Editor, News & Audience Growth

Byline author reporting on Mark Zuckerberg's promotion of Meta smart glasses and wearable AI technology.

Sydney Runkle

Creator

LangChain

Byline author of Deep Agents v0.7 release article.

Actor and director discussed his AI pitch for a Rambo prequel using de-aging technology and his reaction to upcoming Rocky and Rambo projects he's not involved with.

Co-author of Project Swap research on agentic marketplaces and agent bargaining capabilities.

Co-author of Google research on making LLMs better at knowing what they don't know.

Szymon Sidor

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

OpenAI researcher of nearly a decade who explains Neptune's role as a metrics dashboard company at the interface of compute and understanding.

Ta-Ying Cheng

Researcher

Researcher at Netflix

Ta-Ying Cheng is a researcher and co-author of VOID, Netflix's video object removal framework.

Taco Cohen

Researcher

Researcher at Meta FAIR

Co-author on Code World Model research paper

Tadas Antanavicius

Engineer

Registry Maintainer at PulseMCP

Listed as article author and spearheaded the initial registry effort from PulseMCP

Taejong Joo is first author on Google research showing random masking can outperform adaptive optimizers for LLM training.

Byline author of article about Microsoft's MDASH agentic scanning harness for vulnerability discovery.

Taesung Park

Executive

Reve

Author of "Reve Launches AI-Powered Platform for Precise Image Creation" in Reve

South Korean surgical oncologist who used Watson for Oncology and identified problems with its ability to explain recommendations.

Co-author researching discrete latent reasoning for efficient LLM inference using abstract chain-of-thought mechanisms.

Nedaee contributed to the MIRAGE study examining how multimodal AI systems process visual information.

Taiji Suzuki

Researcher

Author of the paper on in-context vector arithmetic

Taiming Lu

Researcher

PhD student at Princeton University

Byline author of paper on open-source text-to-image model development.

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

Japanese professional table tennis player who competed against Sony AI's Ace robot in official ITTF-regulated matches in Tokyo.

Announced Mitsubishi's partnership with Highlanders to mass-produce AI-powered humanoid robots at Kyoto facility starting early 2027.

Kenjiro Tsuda's lawyer who noted that the court ruling made both sides look victorious and that the case achieved its goal with the account deleted.

Co-author of the article on sycophantic AI and prosocial intentions

President of IFR commenting on US robotics industry growth and the importance of national robotics strategy.

Takis Theodorikakos commented on OpenAI for Greece partnership opening opportunities for AI competitiveness and innovation.

Takuya Akiba

Researcher

Chief Scientist at Sakana AI

Co-author of SSoT paper demonstrating method to improve LLM performance on distribution-faithful and diverse generation tasks.

Security researcher who demonstrated a prompt injection attack using poisoned documents and hidden malicious prompts.

Tal Linzen

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Co-authored research on teaching LLMs to reason like Bayesians by training them to mimic optimal Bayesian model predictions.

Co-founder and CEO of Wiliot discussing strategic investment from Avery Dennison and Physical AI adoption.

Co-author of published research on Wordle strategy using information theory.

Co-author of DynaEdit paper on video editing.

Author of "Hive Robotics Secures €2M to Democratize Robot Collaboration Across Air, Land, Sea and Space" in Tech.eu

Author of "First Proof" on arXiv

Tamara Winter

Creator

Host and narrator at Stripe Press

Host and narrator of the 'Beneath the Surface' podcast series exploring infrastructure challenges and charter cities as potential solutions.

Author of article discussing how AI has made code cheap but coordination remains the bottleneck in software delivery and agent scaling.

Founded AI detection company acquired by Warner Music Group to trace how copyrighted music is used in AI training.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on adversarial stress-testing of multi-agent systems.

Observed that younger Americans are most familiar with AI tools but least optimistic about labor market impacts.

Co-presented AgentFlayer zero-click agentic exploit family at Black Hat USA 2025 affecting enterprise agents across multiple vendors.

Used Garfield AI law firm to recover £7,000 unpaid debt for £400 in legal fees, winning an English court case believed to be the first trial victory involving an AI lawyer.

Tammy Taabassum

Creator

Staff Product Designer at Figma

Byline co-author announcing Figma's new AI agent for design.

Lead author of NeurIPS paper on time series forecasting showing LLMs not necessarily better than basic attention layers.

Tanay Kothari

Founder

CEO at Wispr

Co-founder and CEO of Wispr who launched an Advanced Interfaces Lab and aims to build an AI assistant similar to Jarvis from Iron Man.

Tanay Tandon

Executive

Chief Executive Officer at Commure

CEO of Commure announcing $70 million funding and describing AI's ability to handle administrative healthcare work.

Co-authored research on Render-of-Thought for visual latent reasoning with improved token compression.

Shared paper on using ultrasound imaging to generate full cross-sectional images of human body approaching CT/MRI capabilities.

Implemented AI agent review system at Bonterra to handle 10x increase in code review volume with human judgment on high-risk changes.

Co-author of the Walrus foundation model research.

Co-authored research on AI's effects on professional skill development and workplace learning outcomes.

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Author of "Autoregressive Flows for Image Generation" on arXiv

Tao Yu

Researcher

Corresponding Author at XLANG Lab, University of Hong Kong

Corresponding author leading OpenCUA framework research at XLANG Lab

Tao Zhang

Founder

Co-founder at Manus

Co-founded Manus agentic AI startup acquired by Meta.

Listed as author of the DuPO paper on preference optimization

Mentioned in Nature article with correction to affiliation regarding AI deskilling research.

Vice President at Amazon discussing collaboration with Georgia Tech on robotics, industrial engineering, and aerospace technologies, noting how Georgia Tech's expertise in robotics paired with Amazon's work in on-device intelligence and AI will accelerate understanding of systems that can respond to prompts and anticipate customer needs.

Core contributor to EVA, an end-to-end evaluation framework for conversational voice agents.

Author of "The Xeno Sutra: Can Meaning and Value Be Ascribed to an AI-Generated "Sacred" Te" on arXiv

Co-author on Hakken paper about predicting scientific discoveries; Sony AI researcher contributing to knowledge prediction system.

Tariq Malik

Journalist

Author of "NASA Confirms Boeing Starliner Next Mission Launching No Earlier Than April 2026"

Described how Fable 5 models require smaller system prompts and context-based steering rather than hard rules.

Wrote analysis discussing AGI development challenges and the growing gap between marketing claims and underlying AI technology.

Reviewed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 model's capabilities in generating prompts from multiple reference images and visual workflows.

Tarun Amasa

Executive

CEO at Endex

Quoted as noting that Claude's 1M context window enables maintaining task adherence and attention to detail in complex spreadsheet tasks.

Contributed to DeepSWE project as part of joint collaboration between Agentica and Together AI.

Board member who received Sutskever's memos and voted to fire Altman, later losing her seat after his reinstatement despite her concerns about integrity.

Author of "Bank of England Warns of AI Market Correction Risk"

Commented on the sophistication of scam operations and how legitimate businesses and cybercriminals both leverage AI for efficiency.

Led research team that created an injectable hydrogel scaffold using AI modeling to help brains recover from stroke damage.

Co-author of Hyperagents paper on self-improving AI systems.

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

Taylor Belrose

Researcher

AI researcher

Taylor Belrose, an AI researcher in interpretability, published a lengthy philosophical post arguing that AI systems cannot develop consciousness or moral status.

Taylor Blau

Engineer

Principal Software Engineer at OpenAI

Referenced in "Git Turns 20: Linus Torvalds Reflects on Core Design Decisions"

Taylor Mullen

Journalist

Google DeepMind

Byline author of article about Gemini CLI extensions framework.

Taylor Pospisil

Creator

Staff Research Data Scientist at YouTube

Author of article on LLM classification as feature engineering on Minimally Sufficient newsletter.

Author of "The Curious Case of Flunking My Anthropic Interview (Again)"

Author of "Introducing FlashPack: Lightning-Fast Model Loading for PyTorch"

Author of "GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties" in Z.AI

Academic discussing how lack of competition and AI pricing strategies contribute to consumer cost of living concerns.

Pioneer of hypermedia and user-controlled links and trails through information, influencing the author's vision for web browsing.

Journalist who interviewed Steven Orfield about the anechoic chamber in 2012.

Co-author of Carnegie analysis on AI infrastructure as geopolitics and the importance of time-to-power in data center competitiveness.

Assistant Professor leading ERRATA lab on Ecological Risk and Responsible AI who reviewed AI Safety Index.

Co-authored research with Rick Battle on automated prompt optimization for LLMs.

Created Headroom proxy software that compresses redundant tokens before reaching LLM APIs, saving users an estimated $700,000.

16-year-old founder who created Shield Seniors, an AI-powered platform to help seniors identify and report online scams after her grandfather nearly fell victim to one.

Teknium

Founder

Co-Founder & Head of Post-Training at Nous Research

Led deployment of 1,393 agents to refactor Hermes open-source agent codebase, reducing non-test Python source by 34.4% for approximately $25K in model costs.

Pointed out alignment between QRG additions on main content and Google's page experience documentation

Author of "The Impossible Prompt That's Easy for Humans" in Personal Blog

Co-author of TRIBE v2, contributing to the development of a tri-modal foundation model for neuroscience.

Discussed how experiential and interactive content formats create emotional connection and drive stronger recall in thought leadership.

Hutson is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and co-authored the foreword to the 2025 Responsible AI Transparency Report.

Said there is an urgent need to implement measures against Meta's ban on third-party AI chatbots and that the fee Meta was asking was too high.

Tereza Tizkova

Executive

Growth at E2B

Instructor for DeepLearning.AI course on building coding agents with tool execution in sandboxed environments.

Terry Kilgore

Politician

House Minority Leader at Virginia House of Delegates

Virginia Republican House minority leader questioning viability of Spanberger's data center proposal.

Federal judge who issued an 18-page reprimand and $5,000 fine against lawyer for AI-generated false case citations.

Deputy program manager for VENOM and AIR programs; provides vital program continuity and technical leadership.

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

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

Tete Xiao

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Prompt AI

Co-founder and CEO of Prompt AI, a computer vision startup being acquired by Apple; has PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley

Described brain-computer interface as potentially the most intimate technology humans create.

Executive vice president for NXE EUV machine line, states the upgrade should allow customers to process 330 wafers per hour by 2030.

Thaddäus Wiedemer

Researcher

Researcher

Author on arXiv paper exploring visual meaning and communication in vision-language models.

Thang Vo-Doan led biorobotics research at University of Queensland developing cyborg insects with cameras and medical injectors for search and rescue.

Author of "Why Do LLMs Freak Out Over the Seahorse Emoji?"

Contributor to Synthegy research project on chemical reasoning with LLMs for synthesis planning.

Published tsc-rs, a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler built by Claude Opus 5.5, achieving 181,711 passing tests.

Co-author of Robostral Navigate paper, contributing to embodied AI navigation research.

Théo Daniellot

Executive

Head of M&A & Partnerships at Lovable

M&A and Partnerships head at Lovable responsible for evaluating acquisition targets and partnerships.

Co-author of Token Superposition Training research paper on efficient LLM pretraining.

Anthropic executive joining from Snowflake to lead the company's newly opened Sydney office and regional strategy.

Lead author on speech recognition benchmark optimization research at Hugging Face.

Theodor Marcu

Engineer

Author at Cognition

Byline author of article introducing SWE-1.5, Cognition's frontier-sized coding model.

Theodora Chu

Other

Building product at Stripe at Stripe

Listed as article author

Conducted a hackathon study examining how different types of AI assistance affect team creativity.

Author of "Why California's New AI Safety Law Succeeded Where SB 1047 Failed" in TechCrunch

Theresa Payton

Policy

AI Strategist

Former White House CIO under George W. Bush who described China's distillation attacks as the ultimate form of industrial homework theft.

Candenbat stated that Fin put their product through quarterly independent AIUC-1 testing and is willing to show results.

Oversees deployment of AI chatbot 'Patty' that assists employees and evaluates customer interactions for friendliness using OpenAI technology.

Thiyagu Ramasamy

Executive

Head of Public Sector at Anthropic

Announced partnership with Iceland's Ministry of Education to provide Claude AI tools to teachers nationwide for lesson preparation and student learning.

Washington Post journalist who reported on OpenAI and Anthropic's warnings about China using distillation to steal AI models.

Author of statistical report on AI in the self-improvement industry with 150 statistics and 97 primary sources.

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

Led arXiv's decision to implement rate-limiting policy capping submissions at two papers per month due to AI-driven submission surge.

Thomas Dimson

Executive

Product Manager at OpenAI

Listed as product manager for Sora project at OpenAI.

Co-author of 'Neural Architecture Search: Insights from 1000 Papers'

Thomas Fel

Researcher

Researcher at Goodfire

Co-author of research on interpretability protocols for language model training

Thomas Fuchs

Executive

Chief AI Officer at Eli Lilly

Stated that foundation models are helping chemists uncover new motifs and configurations of atoms for drug discovery.

Author of "Large Language Models Can Effectively Convince People to Believe Conspiracies" on arXiv

Co-author of research on online experiential learning for language models.

Author of "Partnerships and Hiring Data Show AI Companies Are Expanding Beyond Nvidia Chips" in CB Insights

Co-authored NBER paper analyzing conditions for explosive growth through AI research automation.

Led the US National Institute of Mental Health for 13 years and hailed AI as the new frontier in psychiatric care for schizophrenia diagnosis through speech analysis.

IBM chairman quoted with 1943 prediction of limited computer market demand, used as analogy for AI era.

Thomas Jiralerspong

Researcher

Anthropic Fellow at Anthropic

Co-authored research on model diffing method to compare AI model behaviors across different architectures.

Google Cloud CEO commented on Anthropic's TPU usage reflecting strong price-performance and efficiency.

Co-founder of Coatue leading Databricks' $5 billion funding round.

Thomas Malone

Researcher

Professor and Director at MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Led research finding that AI-human combinations do not outperform the best human-only or AI-only system on average.

Computer science student and lead author of study on using LLMs and machine learning to predict new research directions in materials science.

Co-author of research on opacity and transparency in post-training optimization

Software engineer with two decades of experience identified as brainchild of OccupySaaS project to create AI-powered open-source clones.

Presenter at Triton Developer Conference 2025 discussing Triton advancements.

Thomas Ricouard

Engineer

Software Engineer at OpenAI

Author of article on mastering Codex Mobile for engineering, describing how to use mobile devices as control centers for development work.

Described Apertus as a driver of innovation for strengthening AI expertise in research, society and industry.

Thomas Scialom

Researcher

Researcher at Meta

Researcher who presented GAIA benchmark at ICLR poster session.

Cloudflare CFO predicting non-human traffic could reach 1,000 times human traffic within five years

Co-authored article on designing AI agents to resist prompt injection attacks.

Author of "AIRS-Bench: A Suite of Tasks for Frontier AI Research Science Agents" on arXiv