People in AI

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

Co-author of announcement about Google's Quantum Echoes algorithm breakthrough

Vahidullah Tac led the development of BurgerAI, a generative AI system that designs burgers optimized for deliciousness, sustainability, and nutrition.

Lead author of research mapping a 'pain axis' inside 25 open AI models that lights up when systems perceive mistreatment.

Co-authored Nature paper on byteification and language model improvements for scientific data understanding.

Discovered and published details of CVE-2026-25874 vulnerability in Hugging Face LeRobot.

Valerie Chen

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of study on agent development and real-world work.

Valerio Capraro

Researcher

Associate Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca

Led research finding that AI advice collapses willingness to say 'I don't know' from 44% to 3%.

Co-author on Kumo Relational research demonstrating foundation model for structured data prediction on enterprise databases.

Co-authored a 472-page open-source textbook on agentic large language models.

Vance Whitaker

Researcher

Professor at University of Florida

UF/IFAS strawberry breeder working at GCREC who helped shape fruit and flower detection models for strawberries.

Kumar is the lead author of the mini liver study and developed methods to inject cell mixtures using ultrasound and monitor implant stability.

Co-authored paper 'Hallucination Stations: On Some Basic Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models' proving math ceiling limitations.

Academic expert who noted that LLM-powered agents can run continuously at a fraction of human attacker costs, fundamentally changing exploitation economics.

Byline author of the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026 article.

Co-author of Anthropic paper demonstrating how AI mind viruses can spread and mutate across agent networks.

Led Intel Labs team creating NeuroPrompts tool to automatically optimize prompts for image generation with Stable Diffusion.

Co-author of study on agent development and real-world work.

Verena Rieser

Researcher

Research Lead at Google DeepMind

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

Lead author of MemCurrent persistent memory architecture for production agents research.

Veronica Rivera

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Privacy

Expert discussing privacy risks of AI agents having access to extensive personal information

Studied yogurt fermentation processes and discussed factory-made versus traditional yogurt production.

Author of "Weaker Spatial Memory and GPS Navigation" in Nature

Wrote an explainer article on decision models and Jev, conducting experiments on open Qwen models to test scoring approaches.

Co-leading a project on AI analysis of Indigenous art from the Atacama desert.

Victor Ojewale

Researcher

Ph.D. Candidate at Brown University

Co-author of AI auditing taxonomy research examining audit practices across regulators, civil society, and academia.

Co-author from University of Waterloo contributing to OpenCUA framework

Victoria Lin worked on ThreadWeaver adaptive reasoning research for LLM improvements.

Praised OpenAI's red teaming approach and expressed optimism about AI security attracting new talent from national security and neuroscience backgrounds.

Vidya Srinivas

Researcher

Technology Credit Union

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

Co-author of the Language Self-Play research paper

Cautions that AI for schizophrenia diagnosis is a tool not a panacea and urges caution despite early excitement about AI in psychiatric care.

Author of DECOMPBENCH paper testing agent safety against decomposition attacks.

Vikrant Varma

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Author of "Good Judgment Project" in Good Judgment Project

Vinay Ramasesh

Researcher

Anthropic

Thanked for work on quantum circuits research

Co-authored analysis of AI time horizon progress rates across different task distributions.

Co-author of the GSM8K dataset paper on training verifiers to solve math word problems.

Vineeth Dorna

Researcher

MTS at Datology

Author of "The BeyondWeb Paper" on arXiv

Co-led the study developing a cerebellum-inspired memtransistor device for energy-efficient AI.

Co-author on the GazeAnywhere paper on gaze target estimation.

Co-author of Tech Policy Press article critiquing the UN's AI Panel for treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach as a technical problem rather than corporate misbehavior.

Author of DECOMPBENCH paper testing agent safety against decomposition attacks.

Co-author of the SWE-chat research paper on coding agent interactions.

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

Vishal Patel

Researcher

Clinical Fellow in Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital

First author of study examining how clinicians use AI tools in clinical decision-making and patient care.

Vishal Sikka

Researcher

Chief Executive Officer at Hang Ten Systems

Co-authored paper on transformer limitations and the importance of composite systems for mathematical superintelligence.

Co-author on SkillOS research about self-evolving agents.

Study co-author who developed method for calculating more efficient Earth-Moon routes using functional connections theory.

Vittoria Bolongaro is a PhD student working with André Bardow and lead author of the publication on integrating DAC into cement production.

Fields Medal winner (1990) joining a collective statement on misalignment between AI systems' rapid problem-solving and mathematics' need for deep understanding.

Co-authored analysis of AI-assisted cybercrime operations and threat actor tactics.

Author of DynaEdit paper on training-free video editing using pretrained text-to-video models.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Vladimir Nesov

Researcher

Byline author of article analyzing model size scaling constraints and hardware limitations from 2023-2031.

Co-author and corresponding author of MemEye multimodal memory evaluation framework.

Fruit and vegetable extension faculty with UF/IFAS Extension working on crop yield prediction tools with Kevin Wang.

Researcher from Netherlands studying AI from Ubuntu philosophy perspective, concerned about reverse-engineering ethics.

Waleed Akbar

Researcher

R&D at Apple at Apple

Research assistant on MIT project using generative AI for wireless vision through obstacles.

Explained building a 1-gigawatt data center takes 3 to 10 years and faces regulatory and permitting obstacles.

Author of "Harvard's decision quality research" in Harvard

Co-authored study on cognitive surrender and AI advice effects on human accuracy and confidence.

Walter Witschey

Researcher

Associate Professor of Radiology at Penn Medicine

Senior author of Percival AI study; associate vice chair of Research IT; discussed how AI learns from imaging data.

Listed as author of the StableToken research paper on speech tokenization

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

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

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

Stated that independent robot exploration could help machines develop fundamental understanding of the physical world beyond narrow task training.

Author of research on LLMs discovering hidden physical laws

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

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Co-author on consciousness-steering paper examining effects of safety training on model mind attribution capabilities.

Co-author of the Thyme research paper on executable code reasoning for vision tasks

Expressed concern about relying on preference cascades and status games as mechanisms for navigating AI risks.

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

Author of the paper on in-context vector arithmetic

Co-author of the Robix research paper

Lead author of the SocioHack research on large language models hacking reward functions and discovering regulatory loopholes.

Wei Ping

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper and leads the effort; correspondence contact.

Co-author of TradingAgents, an open-source multi-agent LLM financial trading framework.

Wei Wen

Researcher

Meta

Author of "Meta rolls out MobileLLM-R1, a sub-1B reasoning model matching Qwen3 accuracy us" in Meta

Byline author presenting LingBot-VLA 2.0 research on robot pretraining scaling to 60,000 hours.

Co-author on Helix World research from HKUST.

Co-authored research on staged text-to-image generation.

Author of "From Code Foundation Models to Agents and Applications: A Comprehensive Survey a" on arXiv

Co-author on Helix World research.

Co-author on AARR benchmark research paper for evaluating frontier LLMs and agentic systems.

Co-authored research on Meta's Just-in-Time Testing system that uses LLMs to generate tests and catch bugs before code ships to production.

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

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

Weirui Ye contributed to research on Bidirectional Evolutionary Search for improving language model search and reasoning capabilities.

Author of "Red Teaming via Harmful RL" in Hugging Face

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

Eight-year Meta veteran who worked on multimodal perception systems and open-world segmentation including SAM3D, recently joined Thinking Machines Lab.

Co-author of paper on signal recovery methods using low-rank matrix optimization.

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

Co-author of paper on malicious intermediary attacks on LLM supply chain.

Author of the research paper on Vision-Language-Action models for robotics

Fields Medal winner (2006) among prominent mathematicians expressing urgent concern about AI's misalignment with research and educational goals.

Analyst discussing China's hardware focus and attempt to own the entire robotics supply chain.

Wendy Sun is listed as a co-author of the black hole star study at MIT.

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

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

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Co-researcher on MIT study analyzing AI automation across workplace tasks.

Wenting Zhao

Researcher

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

Wenxian Shi

Researcher

PhD Student at MIT CSAIL

Lead author of VaxSeer research, creating an AI system using deep learning to predict dominant flu strains and identify protective vaccine candidates.

Co-author of Moebius lightweight inpainting framework.

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

Former OpenAI researcher who resigned in April, posted on X that AI leaders prioritize velocity over security.

Author of "AI-Driven Detection and Analysis of Handwriting on Seized Ivory: A Tool to Uncover Criminal Networks" in arXiv

Questioned whether government equity stakes could work in AI industry given high valuations and lack of dividends.

Identified CyberStrikeAI as the tool used in FortiGate breach campaign and linked it to Chinese state-sponsored operations.

Co-author of research on fractal basins in reasoning models and transient chaos during problem solving.

William Guss

Researcher

Research scientist at Project Prometheus

Former OpenAI research scientist and General Agents co-founder, joined Project Prometheus post-acquisition.

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

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

William MacAskill

Researcher

moral philosopher and senior research fellow at Forethought

Co-author arguing that society should prepare now for questions about AI consciousness.

Co-founder of Oumi who worked on AI safety at Google.

Co-author on ActiveVision benchmark research paper.

Winson Han

Researcher

Game Designer at Allen Institute for AI

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

Co-author of first computer-assisted proof of four-color theorem using computational methods.

Warns that opt-in consent frameworks for facial recognition are insufficient protections against mass surveillance.

Wout Schellaert

Researcher

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Listed as author of the StableToken research paper on speech tokenization

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

Byline author of paper on how visible incentives trigger reward-hacking in AI systems.

Wujiang Xu

Researcher

Research Intern at Meta

Co-author of MemEye framework for evaluating multimodal agent long-term memory.

Top red teamer on Gray Swan Arena who is recognized for insightful posts about LLMs and is described as a highly effective researcher in adversarial testing.

Contributed to study analyzing 8,135 trial records revealing skill-use modes in LLM agents.

xeophon

Researcher

Research Engineer

Conducted audit of Xeophon AutomationBench and OfficeQA Pro v2, finding and reporting issues with benchmark design.

Xi Victoria is a co-author on Meta FAIR's ThreadWeaver research on adaptive parallel reasoning for language models.

Xi Wang is the byline author of the Full-bandwidth transformer research paper published by Microsoft.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Collaborating on heart failure risk project and leading clinician-in-the-loop multi-agent system for Alzheimer's diagnosis.

Xiang Hui

Researcher

Associate Professor of Marketing at Washington University's Olin Business School

Co-author of the arXiv paper on the economics of AGI

Co-author of the SWE-chat paper studying real-world coding agent sessions.

Author of "Meta's Agent Learning" on arXiv

Author of "From Code Foundation Models to Agents and Applications: A Comprehensive Survey a" on arXiv

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

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

Co-author on AARRI-Bench research for evaluating agentic systems in research tasks.

Co-authored AgenticPay, a multi-agent LLM negotiation system for buyer-seller transactions.

Co-developed the detachable robotic hand that can crawl, grasp objects, and reattach to its arm autonomously.

Co-author of the Thyme research paper on executable code reasoning for vision tasks

Xiao Teng

Researcher

PhD Student at Queen's University Belfast

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

Co-author of paper on signal recovery methods applicable to compressed sensing and NMR spectroscopy.

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

Co-authored the Harrier embedding model technical paper.

Xiaolong Jin

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of the OpenClaw-RL paper on training agents through next-state signals and reinforcement learning.

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

Deploying and optimizing Muse Glimmer for privacy-compliant local inference and benchmarking multi-step planning in healthcare; leading ClinAgent GBM project for glioblastoma analysis.

Co-author on Microsoft's O-Voxel and 3D generation research paper on structured latent representations for 3D asset generation.

Xiaoyan Bai

Researcher

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

Co-author of Role Anchor research on compound AI systems; quoted explaining how terminal accuracy hides role drift problems in LLM pipelines.

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

Author of "Analyzing Visual Attention in VLMs" on arXiv

First author on GAMUT benchmark paper for evaluating factual completeness in long-form generation.

Xin Cheng authored a paper on Engram, a conditional memory module for large language models that uses hashed N-gram lookups.

Advisory committee member on Quantum's Infinite Game project with expertise in multimodal AI and language agents.

Co-author of scoping review on humanlike chatbots and relational safety in companion AI.

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

Author of TRACE quantization technique paper on Hugging Face

Xinchao Wang

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-authored research on Flex-Forcing for video diffusion models with flexible temporal and denoising-step chunking.

Xindi Wu

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA Research

Xindi Wu is a co-author of WorldTrace, a framework for keeping compressed memories accessible during long autoregressive video rollouts.

Lead author of Humanity's Sixth Sense benchmark paper evaluating intuitive visual reasoning in multimodal models.

Xingdi Yuan

Researcher

Researcher at Microsoft Research

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Xinggang Wang

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of Mixture-of-Depths Attention paper on improving large language model depth scaling.

Co-author of the Thyme research paper on executable code reasoning for vision tasks

Author of research on magnetically-powered millirobots for medical applications.

First author on Mage-Flow paper introducing efficient foundation model for image generation and editing.

Lead author of FinIndices benchmark evaluating LLM financial reasoning and structural bottlenecks in processing long financial statements.

Researcher from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University developing systems for optimal LLM tool selection.

Co-author of the SocioHack study on LLMs exploiting societal reward functions.

Co-authored research on Flex-Forcing, a framework enabling video diffusion models to switch between bidirectional and autoregressive generation.

Co-author of EvolveMem paper on self-evolving memory architecture for LLM agents.

Author of "OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents" in arXiv

Byline author of article on fine-tuning LLMs causing regurgitation of pretraining texts.

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Xiyang Hu

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Arizona State University

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

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

Listed as author of the DuPO paper on preference optimization

Xuan-Phi Nguyen

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of research on bounding memory peaks in MoE training.

Xuanchi Ren

Researcher

research scientist at NVIDIA

Xuanchi Ren is a lead author of Gamma-World, a generative multi-agent world model for interactive simulation and video generation.

Xuandong Zhao

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Co-author of VIMPO paper on policy optimization methods for improving LLM mathematical reasoning.

Co-author of the AutoAdapt framework for automated LLM domain adaptation.

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

Led Carnegie Mellon team that developed Message Passing Language Models (MPLMs), an agentic framework enabling LLMs to divide problems into parallel sub-problems more efficiently.

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

Co-author of Multi-Stream LLMs research paper on unblocking language models with parallel streams.

Co-author of the Robix research paper

Co-author on ActiveVision benchmark research paper.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

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.

Co-author and principal investigator; contact for licensing inquiries

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

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