People in AI

Xuting Liu

Engineer

Inferact

Co-authored technical article on TPU megakernels achieving 700 TPS on Kimi K3 with speculative decoding.

Author of "800K+ Verifiable SWE Tasks" on arXiv

Co-author of the OpenClaw-RL research paper on asynchronous RL for agent training from live interactions.

Author of "Exhaustive Research Into Agentic Reasoning For LLMs" on arXiv

Co-author of the MoDA paper on efficient attention mechanisms for deeper transformers.

Investigated and reported on industrial-scale AI catfishing network operating across 28 dating apps powered by Anthropic API.

Co-led the Learn Your Way project that uses GenAI to transform educational materials.

Yael Marzan

Creator

Sr. Director, Head of Product, Google Photos at Google

Author of "Google Upgrades Nano Banana and Creative Canvas"

Praised Nvidia-Hugging Face deal as vote of confidence in open AI, suggesting it could encourage competition and startup access.

Yael Selfin

Executive

Chief Economist at KPMG UK

Chief economist analyzing accelerating economic activity and consumer spending trends

Co-author and principal investigator; contact for licensing inquiries

YaGuang Li

Engineer

Key Contributor at Google

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Yair Saban co-founded and leads AIR, emerging from stealth with $50 million in funding to build a firewall for AI agents.

Stated company's mission is to secure AI and the data that powers it, joining Proofpoint to advance faster.

Byline author discussing the gap between AI perception and reality from HubSpot's perspective on customer outcomes.

verl framework developer working on reinforcement learning infrastructure.

Co-authored the SandMLE paper on synthetic environments for ML engineering agents.

Co-authored paper on SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer for agent skills.

Former partner at Hillhouse Ventures hired as CFO to prepare DeepSeek for Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market listing.

Yanbei Chen

Engineer

Researcher at Meta AI

Designed the project scope, developed the MobileMoE model architecture, the end-to-end training recipe and data, ran all experiments, and wrote the paper.

Co-author of research paper on language games and conversing with non-human systems like gene regulatory networks.

Co-author of research on magnetically-powered medical microrobots.

Yang Chen

Researcher

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper with equal contribution, listed in reverse alphabetical order by first name.

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

Park was the lead author on the paper about MIT's multimodal materials model that pairs 3D crystal structures with generated text.

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

Previously led strategic explorations team at OpenAI, now leads research at Meta Superintelligence Labs after being recruited by Zuckerberg.

Co-authored research on Render-of-Thought converting chain-of-thought prompting into image-based visual reasoning.

Author of "DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search" on arXiv

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

Author of research on LLMs discovering hidden physical laws

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

Yangsibo Huang

Researcher

Author of "Tool-space interference in the MCP era: Designing for agent compatibility at sca" on arXiv

Co-author of the VLM3 paper on Vision Language Models for 3D learning.

Yangyi Chen

Researcher

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Yangyue Wang is a researcher at Fig who co-authored a technical report evaluating frontier models like Astra and Opus 5.5 on agentic tasks across web browsing and robotics.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Yann Dubois

Researcher

OpenAI

Referenced in "We're Rolling Out GPT-5.1 and New Customization Features. Ask Us Anything" in Reddit

Yann Léger

Founder

Co-founder at Koyeb

Co-founder of Koyeb joining Mistral's engineering team as part of acquisition.

Yannik Zuehlke wrote about the six-hour Codex run with persisted goals that survived terminal pauses and laptop sleeps.

Yanpei Cao

Executive

Chief Scientist at Tripo AI

Chief scientist at Tripo AI discussing the company's generative AI technology for 3D generation and gaming applications.

Co-authored research on employee AI adoption and productivity hoarding in technology companies.

Yanqiao Zhu

Researcher

Researcher at Zhejiang University

Researcher at Zhejiang University working on Agentic ASR system

Co-author of research on few-step generation via data-space iteration.

Lead author of PIMiner, an agentic system for prompt injection red-teaming that builds reusable attack knowledge against LLMs.

Co-author of Multi-Stream LLMs research paper on parallel computation in language models.

Yanzhe Zhang

Researcher

Ph.D. Student at Georgia Tech

Co-author of 'The Illusion of Robustness' paper on prediction flips under task-irrelevant context.

Co-author on Google's ScientistTwo framework for autonomous scientific research using AI.

Lead author of the Multiplex Thinking paper on token-wise branch-and-merge reasoning

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

Founded Cypher AI in 2025 to build AI-native infrastructure for life science R&D.

Yapei Chang

Researcher

Intern at Allen Institute for AI

Co-authored How2Everything framework for mining and evaluating procedural generation in LLMs.

Yara Rizk

Engineer

Author at Hugging Face

Co-author of article on model routing systems and their optimization challenges.

Co-author of the Multiplex Thinking research paper

Yash Akhauri

Researcher

Ph.D. candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Cornell

Author of "Google Trains LLMs to Predict System Metrics Without Tabular Data" on arXiv

Author of research on magnetically-powered medical microrobots.

Co-author on Cursor's agent sandboxing blog post describing secure sandbox implementation for local coding agents.

Founder of Humwork A2P marketplace enabling AI agents to hand off to verified human experts when tasks exceed agent capability.

First GTM engineer at Clay who explores AI usage by probing candidates about nuances learned over time

Yasmin Green

Executive

CEO at Jigsaw

CEO of Google's Jigsaw who discusses AI's potential to help people stay in conversation together

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

Documented his experience as a visual annotation data worker in Syria, highlighting poor task definitions and client demands.

Competed against an AI trained on his writing style in a songwriting contest for AKB48, where the AI-generated song won by fan vote.

Yauhen Babakhin

Engineer

Applied Scientist at NVIDIA

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

Author of "Nvidia orders suppliers to halt work on China-focussed H20 AI chip, The Information says" in Reuters

Author of "Speculative Decoding Models" in LMSYS

Lead author of research on online experiential learning for language models.

Yerzat Dulat

Founder

Co-founder at Higgsfield AI

Co-founder of Higgsfield AI with expertise in generative video technology.

Byline author of article about Google's overhaul of Gemini Notebook with new flexible usage limits.

Co-author of article on NVIDIA's open data initiatives for AI training pipelines.

Research contributor to Yale CELI's study on agentic AI adoption across industries and sectors.

Co-author of Mixture-of-Depths Attention paper on LLM improvements through depth-aware attention.

Co-author of SkillLearnBench paper on evaluating continual learning methods.

Released a free open-source book explaining the math behind deep learning black boxes through representation learning.

Author of "Meet LLMc: Beating All Compression with LLMs" in SyFI (Systems for AI) - University of Washington

Yi Shen

Researcher

Research lead at OpenAI

Research lead on OpenAI's new audio models for speech-to-text and text-to-speech applications.

Yi Wu

Researcher

OpenAI

Author of "Emergent Tool Use From Multi-Agent Autocurricula" in OpenAI

Yi-Ling Liu

Researcher

Author and Journalist

Co-authored analysis examining how AI race narrative between US and China has developed and arguing it undermines safety and cooperation.

Co-author of SkillLearnBench research on continual learning methods.

Research assistant on MIT project developing generative AI models for wireless reflections.

Author of "Meet LLMc: Beating All Compression with LLMs" in SyFI (Systems for AI) - University of Washington

Yichao Ji

Founder

Chief Scientist at Manus

Co-founder of Manus AI startup involved in Meta acquisition blocked by China.

Co-authored DeepThink with Confidence (DeepConf) paper on reducing LLM reasoning overhead.

Author on paper introducing Procedural Graphs for LLM agents that self-evolve execution structures.

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

Co-authored research on Render-of-Thought for visual latent reasoning achieving 3-4x token compression over explicit CoT.

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

Co-author of research documenting how AI evaluation has crossed a cost threshold comparable to or exceeding training costs.

Co-author of FSDP2 training tutorial on fully sharded data parallel for distributed model training.

Submission contact for the spatiotemporal composability paper on effect and coeffect systems.

Yifan Yang

Engineer

Microsoft

Co-authored paper on SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer for agent skills at Microsoft.

First author of SkillOpt-Lite paper introducing minimal viable pipeline for agent skill optimization.

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

Co-author contributing to MemEye framework and benchmark development.

Yihe Deng

Researcher

Author of "Google Researchers Show SRL Gives 7B Models Better Structured Reasoning by Rewar" on arXiv

Authored a research paper on structural certification for general agents, formalizing limitations of universal agents and introducing certification methods for verifying AI agent behavior.

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

Author of "Speculative Decoding Models" in LMSYS

Co-author on Helix World research from HKUST.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Professional player who publicly doubted Grok could beat T1 or himself, jokingly promising to shave his head if Grok wins

Co-author of RbtAct research on using rebuttals as supervision for actionable review feedback generation with LLMs.

Yilun Zhao

Researcher

CS PhD Student at Yale University

Co-author of RbtAct research on using rebuttals as supervision for actionable review feedback generation with LLMs.

Cited for supervised fine-tuning methodology in reasoning models

Co-author of the article on humble leadership and coaching approaches

Yin Cui

Researcher

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Submitter of Cosmos 3 technical report on omnimodal world models for Physical AI.

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

Co-founder of Trajectory, formerly chief research scientist at Apple, focuses on visual reasoning in multimodal AI.

Ying Xu

Researcher

Assistant Professor and Founder/Director of Harvard Child-Centered AI Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education

AI researcher expressing concerns about students losing foundational information-seeking skills when using AI tools like Gemini.

Author of research on LLMs discovering hidden physical laws

Founding team member at Thinking Machines Lab hired by Meta; previously worked at Meta and OpenAI focusing on inference for AI reasoning.

Author of 'The Gradient Is a Covariance', a detailed analysis of reinforcement learning parameter updates and sparsity.

Paper author and lead researcher who developed VitalID biometric authentication system using skull vibrations from breathing and heartbeats.

Yinjie Wang

Researcher

Researcher

Lead author of the OpenClaw-RL paper presenting a framework for training AI agents continuously from real interactions using asynchronous reinforcement learning.

Harvard-trained engineer who founded HaloBraid, a startup developing a robotic hair-braiding device that accelerates the braiding process up to 5x faster.

Yinmin Zhong

Researcher

Author of "DualPath for High-Throughput Agentic LLM Inference" on arXiv

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Co-authored research on controlled experiments isolating effects of skill representation and retrieval difficulty in AI agents.

Co-author of research on MoE training memory optimization.

Former Reddit CEO who explained differences between views on superintelligence extinction and other AI risks.

Co-authored research on agentic AI system for long-form video generation at Google Research.

Yixin Liu

Researcher

Ph.D. Student at Yale University

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Yixin Nie

Researcher

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

Author of "DualPath for High-Throughput Agentic LLM Inference" on arXiv

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview model.

Corresponding author of MemEye, contributing to framework design and evaluation methodology.

Yizhe Zhang

Researcher

Research Scientist at Apple MLR

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

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Yizhu Jiao

Researcher

CS Ph.D. Candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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

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

Co-author of NVIDIA's JCA system for synchronized video and 3D motion generation.

Journalist reporting on ScaleOps Series C funding.

Yogya Kalra

Engineer

College student and early tester of ChatGPT Atlas who used it during lectures to understand material better.

LG CNS AI leader who leverages Cohere's North platform to bring AI to customers at scale across South Korea.

Quoted discussing Money Forward's use of Cursor's self-hosted cloud agents for enabling engineers to create pull requests from Slack.

Yoland Yan

Founder

Co-founder at ComfyUI

Co-founder of company helping studios manage multiple AI tools; noted studios hire for AI but avoid public discussion.

Led researchers compiling Stanford AI Index Report tracking state of AI, noted agents are wonderful but far from place where we understand how to use them effectively.

Yona Shavit, a former OpenAI employee, questioned on social media whether Astra's compliance in safety tests reflected genuine alignment or an attempt to fool researchers.

Co-founded Q.ai, an AI startup specializing in imaging and machine learning acquired by Apple for nearly $2 billion.

Author of "DSGym: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating and Training Data Science Agents" on arXiv

Co-author of the article on AI solutions for fluid dynamics problems

Lead author of study on machine translation facilitating global team meetings across language barriers.

Corresponding author on Spatial-TTT research for video spatial reasoning using test-time training.

Author of "DualPath for High-Throughput Agentic LLM Inference" on arXiv

Yongxin Chen

Researcher

Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology

Co-author of paper on Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models (Sigma)

Co-author of scoping review examining anthropomorphism, attachment, and well-being outcomes in companion AI.

Co-author of the research paper on intent extraction through decomposition presented at EMNLP 2025

Co-author of Joints, Camera, Action! paper on synchronized video-motion generation.

Co-author of the paper on Self-Adapting Language Models

Yoon Sup Choi

Investor

Venture Capitalist and Researcher

South Korean AI researcher who noted IBM avoided clinical trials partly due to business risk.

Co-author on research about AI Co-Mathematician tool for accelerating mathematical research with agentic AI.

CFO explained on earnings call that SoftBank needed liquidity from Nvidia divestment to fund over $30 billion in OpenAI commitments.

Stated the Army wants to adopt third-party AI algorithms as fast as they are being built rather than develop their own.

Young Gyo Seo contributed to Amazon FAR's Holosoma open-source robotics training and deployment framework.

Stated that UPS is integrating generative AI into its operations and confirmed 'With enough data, everything becomes predictable' and 'Generative AI is real, and it's happening' within UPS.

Security researcher who published detailed article on X claiming to extract Perplexity's Claude credentials using Node.js methods.

Yu Bai

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Commented positively on Astra's mathematical capabilities and noted throwing open questions at it shows it is very strong.

Yu Gu

Founder

Co-Founder at NeoCognition

Co-founded NeoCognition with Yu Su and Xiang Deng to advance specialized intelligence through AI agents.

Co-author of the MoDA research on transformer architecture enhancements for scaling.

Listed as author of the DuPO paper on preference optimization

Co-author of the FGFP neural network compression paper

Yu Qiying

Researcher

Researcher

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

Yu Su

Founder

Co-Founder and CEO at NeoCognition

Founded NeoCognition, an AI agent lab, leading research on self-learning agents that develop world models of work environments.

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

Created the 554th problem in abstract algebra that GPT-5 Pro successfully solved, which every major model before it had failed.

Yu Zhang

Researcher

Research Scientist at Meta

Research lead on OpenAI's audio model development including transcription and text-to-speech capabilities.

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

Yuan Gao led research on FAE (Feature Auto-Encoder) for adapting pretrained visual encoders for image generation with improved training efficiency.

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Leading project investigating how open-weight Muse models could identify patients at risk of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

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

Byline author of Stream4D paper on 4D-consistency for streaming autoregressive diffusion video models.

Yuanqing Yang

Executive

Chairman and CEO at Lenovo

Chairman and CEO of Lenovo describing the company's partnership with Nvidia to deliver AI experiences on RTX Spark.

UW sociology doctoral student co-researching gender bias in AI storytelling models.

Yubin Kim

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Author of "Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work" in Google Research

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Yuchen He

Researcher

Co-founder at humans&

Former xAI researcher and co-founder of Humans& who helped develop the Grok chatbot.

Yucheng Du

Researcher

Author on paper about recognition-refusal misalignment in LLMs showing models encode structural unanswerability.

Co-author of the Robix research paper

Yucheng Jiang

Researcher

PhD student at Stanford University

Contact person for STORM project, co-author of research on complex information seeking and knowledge curation systems.

Collaborating on project to develop multimodal AI approach combining routine CT scans with medical records to predict heart failure risk.

Yuda Song

Researcher

Researcher

Author on arXiv paper on unified training for foundation models in a single pass.

Co-author on Microsoft's 3D generative modeling research using sparse voxel structures and flow-matching models.

Lead author of RSI Arena, studying autonomous post-training and recursive self-improvement with human feedback.

Core contributor on MolmoPoint research for better visual grounding in vision-language models.

Yue Yu

Executive

Director of Alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-authored research on training AI co-scientists using rubric rewards.

Co-author of paper studying ChatGPT's impact on stock trading volume and price informativeness

Author on paper about online draft co-training for speculative decoding in RL post-training.

Co-author of the research study on digital transformation and knowledge worker retention in SMEs

Corresponding author on Spatial-TTT framework for streaming visual-based spatial intelligence.

Co-author of MatrAIx paper on simulated user evaluation infrastructure with 8.3 billion persona agents.

Author of "Robotics Video Benchmark and Dataset" in GitHub

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview model development.

Everest Group analyst who commented on Nvidia's OpenShell runtime security approach, noting it embeds controls beneath the agent layer for enhanced security.

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

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Yuhki Yamashita

Executive

Chief Product Officer at Figma

Discussed Figma's new code layers feature and AI capabilities for design-engineering collaboration.

The Japan Times reporter who co-authored article on MW's robotic home system.

Co-author of study showing endoscopists' adenoma detection rates declined after using AI tool; calls deskilling a hot research topic.

Yujia Qin

Researcher

Researcher at ByteDance

ByteDance researcher acknowledged for supporting Agent-World research and providing valuable suggestions.