People in AI

Mikhail Shapiro

Founder

Co-founder at Merge Labs

Co-founder of Merge Labs who has pioneered new approaches to brain-computer interfaces.

Co-author on OpenAI's reinforcement learning research for beneficial model behavior.

CEO of Sceye who oversaw stratospheric platform's record-breaking trans-Pacific flight demonstrating HAPS connectivity and edge computing as future infrastructure for 6G.

Blind journalist who wrote about her experiences using vision-language models as virtual mirrors and the psychological impact on blind users.

Leading the Data Workers' Inquiry project investigating labor conditions in AI data work globally.

Milan Kovac

Investor

Tesla

Angel investor in Prime Intellect's $130M Series A round for open superintelligence stack.

Stated BMW is determining applications for humanoid robots in production and wants to accompany the technology from development to industrialization.

Sat on the Ninth Circuit panel hearing arguments in Perplexity v. Amazon AI agent legal dispute.

Co-authored a blog post on Google Developers Blog about on-device function calling in Google AI Edge Gallery.

Miles Clements

Investor

Partner at Accel

Accel investor with nearly $1 billion invested in Anthropic commenting on customers not needing frontier models.

Co-author of Walrus, contributing to the development of a cross-domain foundation model for physical simulations.

Miles Wang

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

OpenAI researcher leaving to launch $2 billion AI drug discovery startup focused on finding new uses for FDA-approved drugs.

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

Min Kim authored the announcement of ElevenLabs' Eleven Realtime Mini and Max speech-to-speech models.

Co-author on the REER research paper

Minbeom Kim

Researcher

PhD Candidate and Student Researcher at Google at Seoul National University

Co-authored CausalArmor, a defense framework against indirect prompt injection attacks on AI agents.

Minda Smiley

Researcher

Senior Analyst at Emarketer

Senior analyst discusses Meta's AI spending efficiency and revenue impact from AI-driven advertising investments.

Author of "Neuroscientists Create First Full-Brain Map of Decision-Making"

Ming Zhang is a co-author on Google's research on random masking for LLM optimization.

Byline author for Hugging Face paper on Lucida, a real-to-sim scene modeling framework for robotics.

Lead author of MemEye framework paper on multimodal agent memory evaluation.

Mingkai Deng

Researcher

Co-author of the paper on critiques of world models

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Co-author on the visual generation and multimodal world models research paper.

Lead author of PageIndex's research paper on vectorless, reasoning-based RAG achieving 98.7% accuracy on financial documents.

Mingyu Ding

Researcher

Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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

Co-author of research on Generative Recursive Reasoning models.

Author of "Qwen Explains Why Minimizing Training-Inference Gaps and Policy Staleness Improv" on arXiv

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

Minh Le

Researcher

Anthropic

Contributing author to Anthropic's research on reducing agentic misalignment in Claude through improved safety training.

Minna Song is co-founder and CEO of EliseAI, which raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation for AI automation of administrative and operational work.

Co-author of research on recursive language models meeting uncertainty for long context.

Co-author of research on Generative Recursive Reasoning models.

Reported on Chinese AI labs' continued reliance on Nvidia chips due to high switching costs to domestic alternatives.

Co-authored research on the Platonic Representation Hypothesis showing AI models converge on shared internal representations.

Co-author of UNU-INWEH environmental impact report; manages geospatial analysis of data center locations and water stress overlap.

Mirac Suzgun

Researcher

Researcher

Conducted a 14-day evaluation of six AI chatbots on factual news retrieval across 2,100 questions in six languages, finding retrieval failures drive over 70% of errors.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored research on cryptographic proofs of inference for large language models as part of the RESI program.

Lead author of UNU-INWEH report on environmental costs of AI; conducted research on carbon, water and land footprints of data centers.

Helped originate the economic scenarios project.

Co-authored joint statement warning about crossing a moral red line on autonomous targeting of humans by machines.

Journalist reporting on TrustFall vulnerability research showing flaws in AI coding agents' trust handling.

MLPerf Inference co-chair who explained the addition of End-to-end RAG and Edge Agentic Inference tests to reflect real-world production AI systems.

Contributor to Nomos 1 model development

Demonstrated vulnerabilities in lidar sensors, showing how malware can create phantom objects or remove real objects from sensor views.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored mathematical paper on plasma equilibria and counterexamples to Grad's conjecture.

Previous CEO whom Laura Chambers replaced in early 2024.

Co-author of G-AUDIT bias detection tool research for medical AI datasets.

Oversaw strategy and finance at CRED since 2020; taking over as interim CEO after Kunal Shah steps down.

Mitesh Patel

Researcher

Researcher at Hugging Face

Co-authored overview of simulation engines for physical AI systems.

Mithil Roshan

Researcher

Researcher at Google Research

Co-authored Google Research paper testing security hardening effectiveness in multi-agent coding systems.

Researcher who trained a small transformer from scratch in 1.5 hours and achieved 44% on ARC-AGI-1, focusing on sample efficiency in AI.

Miwa Blumer

Journalist

Byline Author at OpenAI

Byline author reporting on OpenAI's apology in Australia over the Medicare breach.

Co-author of BanglaKontho dataset release for underserved Bangla language speech synthesis.

Discussed how CEOs are redesigning organizations to bring together people and technology for AI transformation.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's agent containment research.

University named after him is cited as a talent development initiative in UAE's AI healthcare strategy.

Stated at Davos that 2026 is a decisive year for AI with small group of companies turning AI into measurable returns.

Technology entrepreneur and founder of CNTXT AI; also founded LocAI (acquired by AI71) and SMPL AI fund for early-stage AI startups.

Asadi led research on MIRAGE, a method revealing that multimodal AI models maintain 70-80% accuracy even when image inputs are completely removed.

Mohammad Bavarian

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

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

Corresponding author who built LLM-powered digital twin framework for detecting cognitive decline in elderly patients.

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

Co-authored G-AUDIT tool for detecting spurious correlations in medical AI.

Mohammadreza Salehi

Researcher

Researcher at Allen Institute for AI

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

Author of "First Proof" on arXiv

CEO of Bitzero who designed the company's infrastructure-first business model for AI data centers in Nordic regions.

Saudi Arabia's crown prince with whom Altman sought tens of billions in investment and joined the Neom advisory board until the Khashoggi killing became clear.

Discussed how open-source models like Kimi K3 change calculations for governments investing in sovereign AI systems.

Mohanjit Jolly

Investor

Co-founder and Partner at Iron Pillar

Iron Pillar investor backing Freehand, emphasizing autonomous agents versus copilots as differentiator.

Wrote article about Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B model matching DeepSeek-R1 on math benchmarks while using minimal parameters.

Byline co-author on Pew Research survey about AI and economic inequality concerns.

Mojdeh Rastgoo-Lemaitre oversaw the project using Microsoft Discovery to assemble a knowledge base from 106,000 patents and abstracts in hours, then develop cement-additive hypotheses in six weeks.

Senior author and associate professor who discussed the sustainability motivation for battery-free devices in IoT applications.

World-class Go player quoted remarking about AlphaGo feeling like playing against an alien

Co-author of research on using GFlowNets for fine-tuning LLMs via diversity-seeking reinforcement learning.

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

Author of "Elvis Presley Passed Away"

Molly Kinder

Researcher

Economist at Brookings

Wrote essay on 'Messy Middle' scenario where automation creates job displacement without sufficient wealth creation for redistribution.

Byline author of explainer article on world models and how they work.

Byline author of article on New York's data center moratorium signed by Governor Hochul.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's agent security work.

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security and CTO/CIO of Snyk.

Mona Schirmer

Researcher

Researcher who authored paper on online safety monitoring for LLMs using simplified thresholding approach.

Brother of Chonthirat who transported her 300 miles to the temple for cremation after being told she had died by local officials.

Shared insights on customer success practices at Lovable, including renaming CS roles and building custom CS tools; leading fastest company to $400M.

Monica Phang

Engineer

Student at Boston Consulting Group

Developed a GPT that builds character sheets for roleplaying games

Provided visual design and art direction for the scenario explorer.

Co-authored research on automated safety testing using Claude to find training data that evades monitors while inducing misalignment.

Confirmed Wayfair's participation in OpenAI's Sponsored Agent pilot to explore conversational commerce with branded AI agents.

Testified on behalf of OpenAI at NYC Council hearing about AI safety measures and potential dangers.

Country music artist leading Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, used as comparison point to Breaking Rust.

Co-authored article on Claude Code team's code review process

Co-author of the research paper on test-time curricula for reinforcement learning

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security and financial systems.

Moritz Stephan

Engineer

Chief of Staff at Cognition

Engineer who serves as Scott Wu's chief of staff, joined Cognition after seeing Devin build Conway's Game of Life from scratch as a Stanford undergraduate.

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

Morteza Mardani

Researcher

Principal Scientist at NVIDIA Fundamental Generative AI Research (GenAIR) and Visiting Researcher at Stanford University at NVIDIA

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

Introduced GIST, a novel algorithm for selecting high-quality data subsets that maximizes both data diversity and data utility.

Philosopher and educator whose 1940 book 'How to Read a Book' provided philosophical framework for understanding deeper reading.

Co-author of Deep Neural Lesion research on neural network vulnerability to bit flips.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Byline co-author on Cosmos-H-Dreams surgical world modeling system.

Mostofa Patwary

Researcher

Author at NVIDIA

Co-authored Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower paper on diffusion language modeling.

Motoi Ishibashi

Engineer

Rhizomatiks

Co-developer of the fencing tracking and visualization system using AR and deep learning.

Led research tracking 150 generative AI-remixed extremist videos from 71 TikTok accounts totaling 5.4 million views.

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

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

Creator of Confer, an encrypted AI chat platform built on open-weight models; partnering with Meta to integrate end-to-end encryption into Meta AI.

Self-confessed AI-enthusiast and co-founder of Hubspot who owns the most expensive .ai domain you.ai and discusses his domain purchase philosophy

Co-author of MemEye framework for multimodal agent memory evaluation.

Co-author of MatrAIx research on persona-driven AI agents for evaluation.

Muhammad Anees

Creator

Research Fellow at Esophageal and Lung Institute

Author of "Customer Service Systems Optimize for Deflection Rate"

Muhammad Zuhair

Journalist

WCCFtech

Author of "NVIDIA Shatters MoE AI Performance Records With a Massive 10x Leap on GB200 'Blackwell' NVL72 Server" in WCCFtech

Mukhtar Wafayee

Journalist

Journalist at The Independent

Author of "The Afghan girls building robots at home after Taliban education ban" in The Independent

Mukund Jha

Founder

Founder & CEO at Emergent Labs

CEO of Emergent quoted on the democratization of software development through agentic AI platforms.

Seoul cybersecurity analytics firm executive who warned that cybersecurity attacks powered by AI agents have been increasing in South Korea.

Unveiled Purdue's comprehensive AI strategy and introduced an AI working competency graduation requirement for all undergraduate students.

Researcher using computational approaches to understand the role of online technologies in shaping and improving mental health.

Murad Salikhov

Journalist

Co-Founder and Investor at Schwarzwald Capital

Byline author analyzing why the AI layoff narrative in fintech is missing the real structural story.

Murat Bicer

Investor

General Partner at CRV

General Partner at CRV who co-led the $49M seed round for Standard Template Labs alongside ICONIQ.

Murat Demirbas

Researcher

Principal Research Scientist at MongoDB Research

Argued that multi-agent systems do not escape Brooks's law.

Advisory committee member on Quantum's Infinite Game project with expertise in quantum machine learning and quantum control.

Shifting focus to Microsoft's proprietary models and pursuit of superintelligence after Copilot reorganization.

Co-author on ActiveVision benchmark research paper.

Leading Human Cell Atlas coordination efforts integrating with Biohub's Virtual Biology Initiative for AI-powered biological research.

Built dumbtv using DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Claude Opus 5.5, and Claude Sonnet 5.5 to remove ads and bloatware from smart TVs.

Co-authored article on South Korea's sovereign AI buildout and infrastructure investment.

N8 Programs

Creator

Tested Pangram 4 AI detection model and found it identified 38 AI-generated words in a 1,198-word story.

Nabeel Hyatt

Investor

General Partner at Spark Capital

General partner at Spark Capital with early investments in Discord, Descript, and AI note-taking app Granola, interviewed about AI investing thesis.

Nacho Mascort

Other

Head of AI (Marketing Automation)

Attended Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026 and detailed Google's quality attributes and core update recovery mechanisms.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Joined Enveda from Novo Nordisk as clinical development leader to advance AI-discovered medicines through trials.

Nader Dabit

Creator

Eigen Labs

Author of "The Complete Guide to Building Agents with the Claude Agent SDK"

Data protection and AI governance analyst who warns that data leakage incidents are inevitable given the rapid pace of AI feature releases.

Nadia Asparouhova

Creator

Author who interviewed Zerfas and attended one of Jhourney's retreats

Nadine Yousif

Journalist

Senior Multimedia Journalist at bbc.com

Author of "Parents of Teenager Who Took His Own Life Sue OpenAI" in bbc.com

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

Developing framework that forces language models to iteratively construct candidate physical representations under explicit constraints.

Worked with Amazon Bio Discovery to design nearly 300,000 novel antibody molecules using AI agents, accelerating drug discovery from a year to weeks.

Leading biobot commercialization efforts targeting environmental sensing applications including aquaculture and pollutant detection.

Stated that the future of consumer goods is Data + AI + CRM + Trust working together in a continuous loop for transformation.

Endorsed NEURA Robotics investment, highlighting Qualcomm's support for Physical AI and robotics edge computing capabilities.

Led development of LiveCodeBench v6, a contamination-free evaluation benchmark for LLM code capabilities.

Naman Pushp

Founder

Founder at Airbound

Leads Airbound, an Indian drone startup raising $37 million to make autonomous cargo drones competitive with trucking; discusses vertical takeoff design and regulatory challenges.

Lead author of arXiv paper on harness effects in coding agent evaluation across Terminal-Bench tasks.

Manages Watson implementation in Thailand and described how local customization helps hospitals without oncology specialists.

Foundational Models researcher at Apple who joined OpenAI

Nan Jiang

Engineer

Engineer at Modal

Modal engineer providing feedback on RL experiment results and sandbox infrastructure.

Author of "Where Does Chocolate Milk Come From?"

Research team member on study of AI model identifying long-term health risks from sleep study data.

Co-Principal Investigator on Harvard study examining gender gaps across AI usage, knowledge, workplace support, and media representation.

Nancy Haigwood is a longtime OHSU colleague of Jonah Sacha who believed pairing leronlimab with existing HIV therapies could be more effective and helped develop the approach.

Deployed GuideGeek-powered AI bots Ellis and Libby for tourism in New York City.

Infosys chairman stated that AI has made the cost of rewriting legacy apps affordable and necessary.

Author of "Meta Removed AI Chatbots Impersonating Celebrities"

Co-author on NEXUS multi-agent time series forecasting framework.

Posted criticism that Block pushed AI adoption but saw limited productivity gains, refused retention raise and quit.

Former OpenAI researcher who joined Conduit to develop thought-to-text AI translating non-invasive brain signals into text.

Visited Asia with Alex Schultz to study startups organizing around AI and contributed to Meta's internal AI transformation planning.

Naomi Nix

Journalist

Senior Technology Correspondent at TIME

Co-author with Billy Perrigo and Harry Booth of the article 'The AI Tipping Point'.

Wrote essay arguing that realistic AI did not escape the uncanny valley but spread uncertainty to all communication, eroding trust and shared reality.

Lead researcher on the study who expresses surprise at Perplexity's deep research agent performance and responds to methodology criticisms

Stated that Celero's two-nanometer silicon validation demonstrates coherent technology can deliver bandwidth and power efficiency for next-generation AI networks.

Nassir Navab

Researcher

Professor at Technical University of Munich

Part of the steering committee for Open-H-Embodiment, building open datasets for Physical AI in healthcare robotics.

Nat McAleese

Engineer

Researcher at Anthropic

Said Fable/Mythos had been transformational to daily coding work, progressing from barely useful to barely writing a line of code since Fable.

Byline author analyzing Z.ai's Ox Alpha reveal and its implications for AI economics and cost-efficiency.

Nat Sothanaphan

Engineer

Software Engineer

Software engineer and prolific Erdős problems forum participant who used ChatGPT to formalize mathematical proofs.

Natalie Guevara

Engineer

Blog Editor & Strategist at GitHub

Co-author of article announcing the GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset for discovering repositories with non-English content.

Natalie Meurer

Executive

FDE Lead at Sierra

Leads forward-deployed engineers at Sierra, discussing enterprise AI orchestration and agentic ecosystem management.

Natalie Neamtu co-authored research on Verus-SpecGym for evaluating how AI agents translate informal programming intent into formal specifications.

Lead author of red-teaming study on autonomous AI agents deployed in live laboratory environment, examining security and safety vulnerabilities.

Natalie Silvanovich

Researcher

Google Project Zero

Security researcher examining emergency patch systems for software vendors responding to urgent vulnerabilities.

Wrote article about horror novel 'Shy Girl' being pulled from publication due to AI generation allegations.

Nataniel Ruiz

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of MultiGen research on diffusion game engines with persistent external memory for coherent multiplayer gameplay.

Co-author of AI glossary article explaining technical terms like opaque recurrence, chain-of-thought, and other AI concepts.

Co-author of Bloomberg article about Wispr AI's funding round.

Reported on UNAM entrance exam cheating scandal involving AI proctoring failure.

Co-author of LiteLLM incident report on compromised v1.107.0 release.

Wrote an article analyzing AI business segments and their economics, arguing that dismissing AI as a bubble misses important nuance between consumer and enterprise applications.

Nate Barbettini

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Arcade.dev

Explained how MCP session ID changes improve scalability for AI agent infrastructure deployments.

Nate Berg

Journalist

Staff Writer at Fast Company

Wrote article about architecture firms building their own AI models as they sit on proprietary design data that frontier AI labs cannot access.

Stated OpenAI tools support national security work while refusing mass surveillance and autonomous weapons use.

Nate Sanford

Other

journalist at Cascade PBS and KNKX

Author of "Seattle Among First U.S. Cities to Appoint a Chief AI Officer"

Nathan Brake

Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer at Mozilla AI

Author of "Run Any LLM with a Single API: Introducing any-llm v1.0" in Mozilla AI Blog

Nathan Cloos

Researcher

MetaConscious Group

Author of "AI Gamestore: Scalable, Open-Ended Evaluation of Machine General Intelligence wi" on arXiv

Co-authored G-AUDIT tool paper on detecting spurious correlations in medical AI.

Nathan Drezner

Engineer

Product Manager at LangChain

Co-authored announcement of Managed Deep Agents v0.8 with support for user-owned credentials, memory, and HTTP channels.

Co-founder and CTO of Coefficient Bio, previously served as principal scientist at Biogen until September 2025.

Author discussing Andrew Ng's views on Chinese open-source AI models and their competitive advantages, with quotes from Kai-Fu Lee and Eric Schmidt on AI policy.

Co-authored research finding no detectable effect of AI on recent employment trends across most exposure measures.

Engineer working with Clémentine Fourrier on evaluation and leaderboards at Hugging Face.

Los Angeles County District Attorney expressing concerns about using AI in criminal cases, particularly motion to suppress and post-conviction relief cases.

Nathan LeBrasseur

Researcher

Professor & Director at Mayo Clinic

Laboratory mentor of Sarah Jachim who studies aging and senescent cells.

Nathan Rifkin

Executive

Co-CEO at Scale to Win

Co-CEO warning of risks from using generative AI in political campaigns including false information and harmful statements.

Co-authored research on operationalization of opaque serial depth and chain-of-thought monitorability

Byline author of guide on 20 techniques for getting cited in AI answer engines.