Here we feature prominent researchers, leaders, and innovators in the field of artificial intelligence. We also have a special section for Women in AI.
Joelle Pineau
Joelle Pineau is a prominent AI researcher driving progress in machine learning, reinforcement learning, and responsible AI, with a strong focus on open science and reproducibility.
Sara Hooker
Sara Hooker is a machine learning researcher focused on interpretability, model efficiency, and expanding equitable access to AI, blending deep technical work with social impact.
Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin examines how technology and society collide, highlighting the need for justice centered design and accountable AI development.
Rediet Abebe
Rediet Abebe is a pioneering computer scientist whose AI focused research links algorithms with real world social challenges, advancing equity across justice, education, housing, and health.
Francesca Rossi
Francesca Rossi is a pioneer in AI ethics and governance, focusing on value aligned systems and trustworthy decision support at scale.
Cynthia Breazeal
Cynthia Breazeal is a pioneer in social robotics, building human centered robots that enhance learning, wellbeing, and everyday interaction.
Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford explores how AI systems mirror social and political forces, revealing the hidden labor, resources, and power structures behind modern technology.
Daniela Rus
Daniela Rus is a pioneer in robotics and AI, shaping the future of autonomous systems through her influential research and leadership at MIT CSAIL.
Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller is a leading figure in machine learning and AI, known for pioneering probabilistic models and advancing AI in healthcare and education.
Sanjeev Arora
Sanjeev Arora is a leading scientist whose work connects theoretical computer science with modern machine learning, influencing how large models are understood and built.
Oriol Vinyals
Oriol Vinyals is a leading deep learning researcher recognized for breakthroughs in sequence models, translation systems, and large scale AI development.
Christopher Manning
A concise look at Christopher Manning’s impact on NLP, from foundational linguistics to breakthroughs in deep learning and modern neural language models.
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell is a pioneering researcher in ethical AI, focused on fairness, accountability, and building transparent systems that better reflect real people and real-world needs.
Timnit Gebru
Timnit Gebru is a researcher and advocate focused on ethical AI, highlighting bias, fairness, and the social impact of machine learning on marginalized communities.
Serena Yeung-Levy
Serena Yeung Levy advances computer vision for healthcare, building AI systems that improve clinical accuracy and support better patient outcomes.
Adele Goldberg
Adele Goldberg is a pioneering linguist whose construction grammar research transformed our understanding of language learning and influenced modern AI.
Llion Jones
Llion Jones is a key figure behind the transformer architecture, whose work reshaped AI and enabled the rise of today’s most powerful generative models.
Illia Polosukhin
Illia Polosukhin is a co founder of NEAR and a co author of the Transformer paper, influencing the direction of modern AI and the open web.
Soumith Chintala
Soumith Chintala is a core force behind modern deep learning, known for co creating PyTorch and shaping practical AI research with a focus on robotics and large scale neural networks.
We welcome suggestions to prioritize additions to this collection of great people.
Featured Legends of AI
We use the following prompt to create the basic outline for the profiles listed here (we use ChatGPT Atlas, supplemented with Perplexity information in recent news): Write a post about this person with an introduction paragraph, followed by details about this person, followed by a bullet list of key achievements. Do not include links in the copy. Insert a 1-sentence TL;DR at the beginning.
This is the current Sora prompt we use to create the profile images: Create a well-lit, well-composed color portrait photo of this person wearing a dark blue suit with a black cinema curtain background.
And this one for group shots: Create a well-lit, well-composed color group portrait photo of these people wearing dark blue clothes against a black cinema curtain background.
We also use NotebookLM for experimental infographics with the following prompt: Use #111111 as the background color, white as the main color, and #4d87ff as the accent color.