Calanthia Mei is a fintech leader shaping AI driven, decentralized credit and identity systems, working to expand fair financial access for underserved communities.

Melanie Mitchell is an AI scientist known for her work on complexity and human like understanding, offering a clear voice on the limits of current machine learning.

Emilia Gómez is a pioneer in human centered AI, blending technical research with music, ethics, and policy to help shape fair, transparent, and trustworthy AI systems.

Laura Weidinger is a leading AI ethics researcher focused on safety, transparency, and aligning advanced systems with human values, guiding responsible AI development.

Raia Hadsell is a leading figure in deep reinforcement learning, known for her work on continual learning and building safe, adaptable autonomous systems.

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 is a leading figure in machine learning and AI, known for pioneering probabilistic models and advancing AI in healthcare and education.

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 is a leading deep learning researcher recognized for breakthroughs in sequence models, translation systems, and large scale AI development.

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 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 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 advances computer vision for healthcare, building AI systems that improve clinical accuracy and support better patient outcomes.

Adele Goldberg is a pioneering linguist whose construction grammar research transformed our understanding of language learning and influenced modern AI.

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 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 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.

A leading voice in equitable AI, Judy Hoffman focuses on fairness, accountability, and the real world impact of modern machine learning systems.

Dario Amodei is the co founder and CEO of Anthropic, leading research on AI systems that aim to be both powerful and aligned with human values.