People in AI

Author of "Mixture-of-Recursions" on arXiv

Yujun Yan

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of the paper on conformal prediction for temporal graphs

Yuka Obayashi

Journalist

Reporter at Reuters

Reuters reporter who covered the announcement of Japan's largest single-site AI infrastructure deployment through the JERA, Dell, and RHAELM partnership.

Yuke Zhu

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Co-author with Cooney on AI-based embodied agent for art therapy

JERA Global CEO who announced a partnership with Dell and RHAELM to develop a $15 billion hyperscale AI data center in Chiba, Japan.

Lyft executive affirming commitment to supporting human drivers alongside autonomous vehicles in Nashville.

Liu was part of a research team studying how AI use affects intrinsic motivation and perceived task difficulty.

Byline author of CausalMix research on causal inference approach to LLM data mixture optimization.

Co-author of the SocioHack research from Kings College London on LLMs learning to exploit societal loopholes.

Author of "Analyzing Visual Attention in VLMs" on arXiv

Co-author and corresponding author of NCP-ArchPreview model research.

Yulin Zhang

Researcher

Computational Biology PhD Candidate at University of California, Berkeley

Co-led research team that developed TRACE method to discover archaic ancestry in modern human genomes using computational analysis.

Author of "MiniMax Planning to List on Hong Kong Stock Exchange"

Co-authored research on agent swarm leadership dynamics, discovering that underlying models and prompt ordering affect which agents emerge as leaders in multi-agent coordination.

Co-founder and COO of MiniMax Group, previously worked at SenseTime.

Co-authored technical paper on serving DeepSeek-V4-Pro models on H20 GPUs.

Co-author on test-time scaling framework for agentic coding.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview research on arXiv.

Yung Spielburg

Creator

Producer at Water & Music

Grammy-winning producer who used Google's Lyria in the composition and production process for the score of Google DeepMind short film 'Dear Upstairs Neighbors'.

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

Yuntian Deng

Researcher

Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo

Author of "Why Can't Transformers Learn Multiplication? Reverse-Engineering Reveals Long-Ra" on arXiv

Discussed integration of Gemini 4 Argon into MarketingX for automated codebase security audits.

Yunze Xiao

Researcher

MS in Language Technology student at Carnegie Mellon University

Author of essay on RL training environments arguing they must encode domain unwritten rules and organizational context for agents to succeed.

Co-authored research on Agentic Rubrics for software agent verification.

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

Author of "Math Research Agent from DeepMind" on arXiv

Billionaire investor whose fund DST Global invested $100 million in Reflection AI's earlier funding round.

Co-authored article announcing improvements to Cursor's Bugbot tool.

Electrical and computer engineering professor leading research showing brain decision-making begins earlier than previously thought, with implications for AI architecture design.

Yushi Hu

Researcher

research scientist at Meta SuperIntelligence Labs

Author of "Training a VLM Judge Without Human Labels" on arXiv

Co-authored technical paper on serving DeepSeek-V4-Pro models on H20 GPUs.

Yusuf Mehdi

Executive

Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft

Co-authored announcement about Windows 11 AI PC enhancements

Yusuke Kaji discussed how Claude Managed Agents enabled Rakuten to deploy specialist agents across multiple departments within a week.

Co-author of Mixture-of-Depths Attention research on transformer depth scaling.

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

Yuval Kansal is a researcher at Princeton University who co-authored a paper on the energy costs of AI reasoning models.

Automated the process of creating customer journeys and finding product pain points

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

Yuval Tassa

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of MuJoCo Menagerie, contributing to physics simulation models for AI research.

Co-authored research on visual reasoning in image generation.

Lead author of research on map-augmented geolocalization agent

Co-author of AIDE² recursive self-improvement system research.

Co-authored OpenAI Alignment post on complementary metrics for monitorability.

Co-authored research on Single-Rollout Asynchronous Optimization for training LLMs with agentic RL.

Co-author of paper on lower bounds for stepsize-based acceleration proving step-size tricks alone cannot fully speed up gradient descent.

Co-author of MoDA paper on attention mechanisms for improved transformer depth scaling.

Yuxin Zuo

Researcher

UK Education Weekly

Author of "Open-Web Simulator for Agent Training" on arXiv

verl framework developer contributing to RL training system development.

Co-author of SkillLearnBench benchmark for agent skill generation evaluation.

Lead author and electrical engineering doctoral student who developed the AI model and discussed its performance metrics.

Law professor analyzing OpenAI's internal communications as potential bargaining leverage for settlement negotiations.

Commented that the Nolla Health pilot program represents a significant step forward in leveraging AI to improve healthcare access while maintaining rigorous oversight.

Wrote 'Bitter Lesson of AI CAD' post providing useful background on generalist-scaling story showing up in CAD and mechanical design.

Zach Paruch co-authored a walkthrough for Semrush's Model Context Protocol integration with Claude for SEO auditing.

Zach Rash

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Coco Robotics

Leading the startup's effort to use five years of robot data to accelerate automation and physical AI research.

Editor at New York Times who shared that the company uses LLMs to transcribe and summarize podcasts for a daily 'Manosphere Report' monitoring sentiment.

Discussed TENEX's differentiated AI-native architecture compared to traditional managed detection and response platforms.

Winn reported on MIT's multimodal materials model research combining 3D crystal structures with natural language for improved material identification.

Co-led Emerald AI's $150M Series A financing round as co-founder and managing partner of DCVC.

Zachary Charles

Researcher

research scientist at Google

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

Wrote article about Anthropic seeking a Head of National Security Sales and the company's relationship with the Department of Defense.

Led team that designed four-digit hand for Atlas robot, conducting experiment where team members bound pinky and ring fingers to test necessity.

Zachary Kallenborn

Researcher

PhD candidate in Risk Analysis at King's College London

Expert discussing data centers as critical infrastructure vulnerable to physical attacks and the strategic role of AI in military operations.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Zachary S Siegel is an author of CORE-Bench, a benchmark for AI agents on computational reproducibility tasks.

Co-author who worked on algorithm design for generating vascular networks for organ printing, achieving 100-150 micron distances from blood vessels.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Researcher at 10a Labs studying the scale and persistence of uncensored AI model redistributions.

Zack B. Shapiro

Creator

Author of "How I actually practice law with AI"

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

Noted that workers are being asked to use AI tools without adequate guidance on optimal deployment.

Zackary Nado

Researcher

Commenter on Sam Altman's Death Star messaging

Founder of King's Cross-based AI legal firm Centuro discussing whether globally significant AI companies will continue to be founded and scaled from the U.K.

Stated that AI threatens white-collar work while humanoid robotics could replace jobs requiring physical labor.

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

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

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

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

Zeb Evans

Executive

CEO at ClickUp

CEO of ClickUp who restructured the company to a 3:1 AI-to-human ratio with 3,000 internal AI agents, laying off 22% of workforce while increasing remaining employee compensation.

Co-authored GlucoFM paper on a glucose foundation model for metabolic health prediction.

Co-authored research on text-to-image generation with iterative refinement.

Researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University who conducted the MemoryTax study testing seven agent memory approaches.

Co-author of systematic review of code-switching speech recognition research published at LREC 2026.

Zeeshan Shah

Other

BCG

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

Zeeshan Yousaf wrote about OpenAI's testing of GPT Image 2 and its potential impact on the AI image market.

Lead author of FlashDrive research paper on optimizing Vision-Language-Action model inference for autonomous driving.

Zekun Wang

Researcher

Researcher at Alibaba

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Zeljka Zorz

Journalist

Journalist

Byline author reporting on Vercel breach via compromised Context.ai tool.

Co-author on Microsoft research developing 4B-parameter image-to-3D model with high-resolution textured output.

Zena Cardman

Executive

Astronaut at NASA

American astronaut who returned to Earth as part of Crew-11 after 167 days in space.

Author of "Reinforcement Learning on Pretraining Data" on arXiv

Zengyi Qin

Researcher

Lead Researcher at MIT

Lead researcher on OSGym project for scalable distributed data engine for computer agents.

Author of "Alibaba Bets Big on AI Chips and Cloud Growth"

Co-author on Act As a Real Researcher benchmark development paper.

Co-author of MemEye research on visual-centric evaluation of multimodal agent memory.

Zewen Chi

Researcher

Researcher at Microsoft Research

Lead author of research on efficient reasoning on edge devices for language models.

Zeyi Liao

Researcher

Research Intern at NeoCognition

Author of "Meta's Agent Learning" on arXiv

Co-author on Helix World audio-visual world model research.

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

Co-author on GAMUT benchmark research paper.

ByteDance AI researcher who said many Chinese AI companies rely heavily on distillation rather than building their own training data.

Discussed potential for deploying police robots in overseas markets and challenges of international deployment.

Co-author on the Many-Tier Instruction Hierarchy (ManyIH) research paper.

Zhang Linghan

Policy

Law Professor

Drafted scholars' AI law proposals and advocated for binding duties but has not achieved adoption despite influencing legal discourse.

Zhang Linhao

Researcher

Researcher

Listed as author of the StableToken research paper on speech tokenization

Co-authored research on SandMLE synthetic environments for training ML engineering agents.

Signed the IDAIS Beijing red lines in March 2024 and Seoul Frontier AI Safety Commitments in May 2024, making safety a named strategic commitment.

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

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

Zhao Dora

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of year-long Character.AI study examining AI companion effects on well-being and human interaction.

Foundational Models researcher at Apple who joined Anthropic

Zhao Song collaborated with Xinzhi Zhang to resolve a 31-year-old mathematics problem using AI-assisted research.

Collaborator with Xinzhi Zhang in proving the Kannan–Lovász–Simonovits conjecture using agentic AI research methods.

Zhaochong An

Researcher

Meta

Author of "Reference-to-Video Generation" in arXiv

Co-author of research paper on EvoClaw, evaluating AI agents on continuous software evolution.

Announced strategic partnership with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models with Agile Robots' hardware platform.

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

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Core contributor on Quantum's Infinite Game project, building an AI system to discover open problems and create verifiable research environments in quantum computing.

Core contributor to Gemini Embedding 2 paper with equal contributions on multimodal embedding model development.

Piloting RobotStudio HyperReality for consumer electronics assembly, using synthetic data to train robots virtually with 99% accuracy before production deployment.

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

CEO of AI startup describing 'model fatigue' from rapid releases across the industry.

Co-authored analysis of frontier models' performance on spatial biology tasks.

Zheng Chen contributed mechanical engineering expertise to the MyoStep project.

Co-author of OckBench research measuring efficiency of LLM reasoning.

Author of paper investigating how diffusion models' creativity arises from neural networks learning smoothed score functions.

Receives management advice comparing intern management to Perplexity Pro bots in extended essay on AI progress and compute.

Byline co-author on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 models announcement.

Zhengxu Yu co-authored the Memento 3 paper demonstrating that explicit rule revision outperformed direct LLM inference on ARC-AGI-3 benchmarks.

Zhengyao Jiang

Researcher

Cofounder & CEO at Weco AI

Co-author of AIDE² recursive self-improvement system research.

Lead author of SONIC humanoid control model research published in Science Robotics.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Led Accel's $26 million seed investment in Keenable; recognized opportunity in web-scale search infrastructure for AI.

Co-authored research on Single-Rollout Asynchronous Optimization addressing stability and off-policy challenges in asynchronous RL.

Co-author of VIMPO paper on critic-free policy optimization for LLMs showing improvements over GRPO.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Author of "Open-Web Simulator for Agent Training" on arXiv

Argued AI regulation debate reflects cognitive-domain shaping by Washington and that US loosens regulations at home while influencing others to tighten.

Contributor to Claw-Eval benchmark.

Zhihan Liu

Researcher

Lacuna

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

Zhihan Yang

Researcher

Private Equity Associate at Reverence

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

Author of "Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent" on arXiv

Author of "Autoregressive Flows for Image Generation" on arXiv

Zhikai Zhang

Researcher

Researcher at Tsinghua University / Galbot

Lead researcher on LATENT system that teaches humanoid robots to play tennis using imperfect human motion data and reinforcement learning.

Fraudster behind the UK's largest cryptocurrency seizure who used Bitcoin for money laundering.

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

Zhipeng Cai

Researcher

Staff AI Research Scientist at Meta

Lead author of the VLM3 paper on Vision Language Models for 3D learning published on arXiv.

Co-authored research on staged image generation using planning and refinement techniques.

Zhiqiang Shen

Researcher

Researcher at Alibaba

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Zhiting Hu

Researcher

Co-author of the paper on critiques of world models

Co-authored SkillHone framework for continual agent skill evolution with persistent decision history.

Co-authored MemT-1.0 paper on memory-native LLM architecture.

Co-authored study analyzing 8,135 trial records to reveal how AI agent skills work and fail in complex workflows.

Zhiyuan Wang co-authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report.

Author of "Fish Audio Launches S1, A 14B TTS Model With Expressive Voices And Cost Efficiency"

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

Byline co-author on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 models announcement.

Co-author of research paper on EvoClaw, evaluating AI agents on continuous software evolution.

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

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

Co-author of the SocioHack study on large language models hacking reward functions.

Researcher who worked with former doctoral student Qianzhen Shao on AI model for mapping human DNA initiator sequences.

Listed as author of the StableToken research paper on speech tokenization

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

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Co-authored the SandMLE paper on reinforcement learning for ML engineering agents.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview research paper.

Founded ShengShu Technology in early 2023 as a Tsinghua University alum and led the company to become the first Chinese company to release a video generation model with Vidu.

Argued at WAIC 2026 that human-extinction narrative is part of capital-driven marketing and called out what he termed Oppenheimer-style marketing by AI companies.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Author of the ThinkingBox paper on agent benchmarking for stateful business workflows.

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

Zhuoning Yuan is a researcher and co-author of VOID, Netflix's video object removal framework.

Zhuoqun Hao

Researcher

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

Qualcomm executive overseeing optimization of PrismML's 1-bit Bonsai models for Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 smart glasses.

Ziang Li authored technical research on GPU-accelerated Weight Teleportation that optimizes RL training by improving weight syncing between trainers and samplers.

Discussed Perplexity's SPACE sandbox tool for containing AI agents and zero-escape testing results.

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

Zihan Qiu

Researcher

Researcher at Alibaba

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Zihang Dai

Researcher

Co-founder at xAI

One of nine original xAI co-founders who has departed the company in recent months.

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

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Author of "Open-Web Simulator for Agent Training" on arXiv

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

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

Zilin Xiao co-authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report on the 30B parameter agentic language model.

Co-author of MoDA research presenting efficient hardware algorithms for depth-aware attention in transformers.

Ziming Liu

Researcher

Co-authored 'The Quantization Model of Neural Scaling' paper presented at NeurIPS 2023

Byline author of CausalMix paper on optimizing LLM data mixing using causal inference to avoid retraining when data pools shift.

Co-author of MemEye research on visual evidence preservation in agent memory systems.

Co-author of PixelRAG paper on visual retrieval-augmented generation.

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

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

Zixian Ma

Researcher

PhD Student and Research Intern at Allen Institute for AI

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

Author of the research paper on self-aware reasoning efficiency in large language models

Researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University who developed Agentic ASR system for interactive speech recognition

Zixuan Ke

Researcher

Agent Researcher at Salesforce

Author of "A Survey of Frontiers in LLM Reasoning: Inference Scaling, Learning to Reason, and Agentic Systems"

Zixuan Li

Executive

Executive at Z.AI

Z.AI's Zixuan Li announced on X that Z.AI is set to be the first AI-native LLM company to list on the global market.