People in AI

Led research team developing IRIS, a machine learning model that detects signaling pathway fingerprints to reconstruct cell development signals.

Author of "Falcon-H1R: Reasoning with a 7B Model" on arXiv

Founder and CEO of Netomi quoted on company's deterministic controls, probabilistic reasoning, and world model for customer experience.

Punit Jain

Founder

Founder at Reskill

Founder of tech platform Reskill who described long queues and waiting at India's AI summit.

Purvanshi Mehta co-founded Lica and will lead Gamma's new design research division exploring multimodal and personalized presentation formats.

Co-byline author of article about trillion-dollar IPO filings for SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

Purvi Goel

Researcher

Final-year PhD Student at Stanford University

Co-author of the research article on visual features across modalities

SVP and Chief Digital Technology Officer at CVS Health announcing the expansion of collaboration with Salesforce on Agentforce Health for call center AI agents.

Qasim Wani

Founder

CEO at Extrapolate

CEO of Extrapolate who established the RSI team at xAI and contributed recursive self-improvement tasks to GDPx benchmark.

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

Commented that the AI clinical decision support tool for intimate partner violence detection could be a game-changing asset to public health.

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

Contributor to Claw-Eval benchmark.

Co-author of the Language Self-Play research paper

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

Author of the paper on General Agentic Memory framework

Lead author of scoping review on humanlike chatbots, companion AI, and socioaffective mechanisms.

Economist warning that AI landscape will yield uneven outcomes with some firms emerging as profitable while others become obsolete.

Deputy director of Tsinghua University's center for international security and strategy; notes technology to verify compliance with AI slowdown does not yet exist.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview research.

Co-author of paper studying ChatGPT's impact on stock trading volume and price informativeness

Qianhui Wu

Researcher

Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Byline co-author on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 models announcement.

Former doctoral student of Zhongyue Yang now postdoc at Stanford working on AI model for DNA sequencing.

Member of SGLang team that integrated DFlash and developed Spec V2 engine for speculative decoding.

Byline author announcing Hy-Nomas interactive world model release.

Co-author of Claw-Eval benchmark paper.

Co-author on Helix World audio-visual world model from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Co-author of the Robix research paper

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

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

Co-authored MerchantBench paper evaluating LLM agents running an e-commerce business for 365 simulated days.

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

Author of the paper on in-context vector arithmetic

Qingxiu Dong

Researcher

Lacuna

Co-author of the Multiplex Thinking research paper

Qingyang Wu

Engineer

Research Engineer at Together AI

Generated R2E-Gym trajectories for SFT and verifier training, evaluated DeepSWE models, and managed infrastructure.

Co-author contributing to MemEye benchmark construction and validation.

Author of "Autoregressive Flows for Image Generation" on arXiv

Co-author of the paper on LLM calibration with label smoothing

Co-author of VISTA research paper on visual reasoning agents for interactive environments.

Co-author on the REER research paper

Co-author of paper 'RAG MCP' on applying RAG to tool descriptions for LLMs

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Quentin Berthet

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Introduced MIND (Monge Inception Distance), a faster and more sample-efficient replacement for FID that requires 10x fewer samples for generative model evaluation.

Quentin Carbonneaux

Engineer

Research Engineer at Meta FAIR CodeGen Team

Contributed to the development and release of Code World Model for advancing code generation with world models.

Wrote article about SK Hynix and Micron reaching $1 trillion valuations driven by AI data centre demand.

Author of "Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free"

Theologian and former Mobileye chip engineer who questioned whether Anthropic building conscious machines should be banned.

Rachael Burns

Engineer

Staff Engineer & AI Tech Lead at Oscar Health

Rachael Burns from Oscar Health praised the updated OpenAI Agents SDK for making automation of critical clinical records workflows production-viable.

Rachael Sawyer

Other

Generalist Rater at GlobalLogic

Technical writer and Google AI rater who discovered distressing content moderation tasks and loosened safety guardrails over time.

Veterinary researcher who held ethics approval to administer experimental treatments and administered Rosie's mRNA vaccine injections.

Rachel Clun

Journalist

Business journalist at BBC News

Author of "United Kingdom's Economy Grew Stronger Than Expected"

Rachel Curry

Journalist

Author of "Walmart's latest AI innovations represent a shift for big retail"

Rachel Fieldhouse

Journalist

Journalist at Nature

Authored the Nature article about an AI-powered brain device that allows a paralyzed man to control a robotic arm.

Principal AI ML Threat Intelligence Engineer discussing AbbVie's use of LLMs for cybersecurity threat detection and analysis

Content creator highlighting spatio-temporal grounding feature for tracking subjects

Discussed Meta's AI infrastructure needs and commitment to building skilled workforce through America's Workforce Academy.

Rachel Power

Other

Chief Executive at The Patients Association

Said trust in AI scribe technology depends on good communication and genuine partnership with patients, currently missing.

Co-authored research on Pangram Image, an AI-generated image detection model with 99.5% accuracy.

Interviewer discussing AI transformation and corporate strategy with Julie Averill.

Rachel Wolan

Executive

CPO at Webflow

Built an AI chief of staff to manage her calendar, prep for meetings, and drive AI adoption at Webflow.

Rachid Finge

Executive

Communications Manager at Google

Author of "A Behind-the-Scenes Podcast Covering Pixel 10 AI Features" in Google Blog

Radek Osmulski

Engineer

Deep Learning engineer at NVIDIA

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Radek Sienkiewicz

Researcher

Author of "Pyramids"

Radhika Rajkumar

Journalist

Senior Editor at ZDNET

Senior editor covering AI safety, privacy, security, and policy; leads newsletter strategy at ZDNET.

Radim Urban

Researcher

MS Computer Science Student

Co-author on arXiv paper on Latent Sparse Attention.

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from Stacklok

Board member of Nscale contributing to governance and strategic direction.

Rafa Schwinger

Researcher

Byline author analyzing physics of Claude Fable and Mythos, arguing moat is in environment foundry not architecture.

Studies societal and behavioral impacts of AI; warns chatbots can subtly persuade users and reinforce existing biases.

Lead author on research studying representational convergence across scientific foundation models

Presented a rule for catching AI errors at Google Search Central Live: no source, no number.

Author of "The Roomba Empire Finally Stumbled"

Observed that AI-era workers thrive as tinkerers and doers who can creatively use AI and quickly translate ideas into action.

Cofounded Chinko Nature Reserve and used exe.dev's AI agent to build Five Megapixel Conservation app and process 40TB of LIDAR data with AI agents.

Raga Justin

Journalist

New York Correspondent at Bloomberg Industry Group

Byline author reporting on New York AI chatbot regulation bill.

Ragavendra Dani

Engineer

Developer

Built GemmaFC, a real-time football simulation controlled by Gemini running on Cerebras infrastructure.

Core contributor to the EVA evaluation framework for voice agents.

Raghavendra Mohit

Researcher

Machine Learning Researcher at Scale AI

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

Principal engineer at Microsoft Digital leading multi-agent orchestration for network operations and incident management.

Research on how chatbots worsen attenuated delusional beliefs, noting paid and newer model versions perform worse at identifying delusional content.

Described soul-crushing experience of content moderation work and concerns about lasting psychological scarring.

Rahman Syed

Engineer

Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS

Co-speaker at AWS workshop on securing agentic systems and observing AI agent behavior.

Co-authored research on cryptographic proofs of inference through the Anthropic STEM Fellows Program and Succinct.

Rahul Gorijavolu

Researcher

Researcher at PLOS

Co-author of PLOS study on clinical validation of FDA-cleared AI medical devices.

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

Rahul Mohan

Engineer

Senior AI Engineer at You.com

Senior AI engineer reporting significant performance improvement from swapping NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed in re-ranking stack.

Partnering with Ami Vora to scale Claude experiences that millions of users rely on.

Co-founder of Superhuman discussing the new auto-draft feature that uses a mixture of OpenAI and Anthropic models, reporting 40% of auto-generated drafts sent within one day with 60% sent without manual editing.

CEO of chip startup MatX who adopted NVIDIA's reference architecture for co-design innovation rather than full integration, focusing on logic die optimization.

Raiza Martin

Founder

Co-founder at Huxe

Raiza Martin positions Opus 4.5's coding strength as a strategic priority for AI labs.

Rajan

Creator

Author of "LLMs Can Invent Their Own Compression" in Rajan

Rajan Patel

Executive

Vice President, Search - Engineering at Google

Confirmed on X that unclickable Discover links were a bug in a Google AI summary experiment.

Rajarshi Roy

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Lead author of PersonaPlex research paper on real-time full-duplex conversational speech models.

Co-author on Claude security verification research.

Rajat Tandon

Executive

President, Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA) at Indian Venture and Alternative Capital Association

IVCA president discussing India's $25 billion Deep Tech investment strategy and funding gaps with US.

Managing director agrees that 2026 budgets will shift resources from labor to AI investments.

Rajeev Sethi announced Claude's integration with Microsoft 365 applications, enabling context to travel across Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Co-founder and CEO of MakeMyTrip who revealed AI assistant Myra handles 80,000 conversations daily with 10% higher conversion for users.

Outlined FedEx's next transformation strategy built around digital intelligence as a primary asset and emphasized the role of AI and data analytics in differentiating performance.

Co-author of announcement about Roblox's new AI chat filter that rephases profanity in real-time instead of blocking with hashtags.

Led the development and promotion of Amazon Bio Discovery, a tool for drug discovery using AI agents and biological foundation models.

Stated that AI has augmented cybersecurity work with 10-100x improvements in human capabilities.

Executive Chairman of Upscale AI; repeat founder helping build networking infrastructure for frontier AI.

Led the development of Alexa for Shopping, describing it as an expert personal shopper that knows user preferences and purchase history.

Rajko Radovanovic

Engineer

Technical contributor at Andreessen Horowitz

Provided targeted technical insights and practical assistance strengthening critical study components.

AI and analytics professor commenting on Nvidia's competitive strategy in AI infrastructure and capital deployment.

Highlighted Zoom's use of Coval for systematic evaluation of voice agents at scale.

Rama Sekhar

Investor

Partner at Menlo Ventures

VC partner explaining that acquisition speed is critical in AI world and high valuations enable stock-based deals.

Ramamohan Paturi, original proposer of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, is co-leading the verification group for OpenAI's claimed proof that ETH is false.

Co-authored technical post on Agent Compute Engine, Google's foundational infrastructure for running autonomous AI agents at scale.

Co-author of MIT NANDA project research on AI in business.

Rameswar Panda

Engineer

Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research

Key architect of Granite language models, quoted on Granite 4.1's competitive instruction-following and tool-calling performance for enterprise workloads.

Rami Alhamad

Founder

Cofounder and CEO at Alma

CEO of AI nutrition coaching app stating that nearly every line of code at Alma is now written by AI.

Authored the Claude for Legal announcement introducing legal connectors, plugins, and integration with legal software systems.

Co-author of research on Abstract Chain-of-Thought method for reducing reasoning tokens while maintaining comparable performance.

Co-author on Kumo Relational foundation model research.

Ramtin Naimi

Investor

General Partner at Abstract

Participated in Series B funding round for Dust and highlighted AI operators building agents across teams.

Ramy Adeeb wrote an article arguing that intelligence is commoditizing like compute and bandwidth, challenging the narrative that AGI will be a permanent competitive advantage.

Ran El-Yaniv

Researcher

NVIDIA

Co-author of Deep Neural Lesion research demonstrating catastrophic failure of neural networks from critical bit flips.

Host of 'Pioneers of AI' podcast where author discussed GPT-5 launch.

Cognitive AI leader and CEO discussing how AI moves from productivity tool to cognitive infrastructure in business decision-making.

Rand Fishkin

Researcher

Researcher/Analyst

Researcher who analyzed ChatGPT citation behavior and warned that citation analysis may be misleading because AI tools predetermine which sites to recommend.

Republican Senator from Kentucky who blocked Kennedy's request for unanimous consent to pass his 'kill switch' bill for AI agents.

Referenced for his quote on inspiration as being struck by lightning in a thunderstorm

Discussed security risks and mitigation strategies for AI agent tools, emphasizing the need for layered defenses.

Ousted by War Secretary Hegseth; had helped lead Army's transformation push with drones and AI.

Contributing researcher to the strategic workforce planning research

Co-author of Claw-Eval benchmark paper.

Co-authored technical publication announcing Microsoft's Maia 300 chip and rack-scale AI infrastructure.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) for secure AI agent-led payments across platforms.

Discussed company's multi-gigawatt planned development and power supply flexibility for data centers.

Leadership contributor on Gemini Embedding 2 providing direction and oversight.

Raphael Milliere

Researcher

Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Oxford

Discussed philosophical aspects of anthropomorphism in describing agent behavior.

Co-author of research on auditing preference datasets and shaping model rewards

Raphaël Satter

Journalist

Reporter at Reuters

Reported on Russian-speaking hackers using Cursor AI to breach seven companies including a Belgian chemical maker.

Aikido security researcher who discussed the risks of auto-update in extension marketplaces and how it enables attacks by compromised publishers.

rasbt

Creator

Senior Staff Research Engineer

Byline author cataloging 10 open LLM architectures released in October.

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Researcher

Professor at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Co-author of the article on generative AI usage trends

Raúl Gómez

Engineer

Vercel

Captured the concept that CLI is the fundamental coding agent abstraction

Co-authored CIGaRS study on using AI to analyze Type Ia supernovae for dark energy research.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on multi-agent system resilience and threat detection.

Discussed OpenAI's conservative approach to backend design and how recent model improvements enabled acceleration of chip design tasks

Investor backing Ineffable Intelligence who describes David Silver as a world-class researcher whose career demonstrates the ability to scale intelligence without human priors.

Co-presented measured performance results for Jalapeño accelerator at HotChips 2026.

Commented on light-scanning technology for NEC detection, noting too few cases in pilot study but technology worth investigating further.

Co-author of Microsoft security research on npm worm supply chain attack affecting AI workspaces.

Warned that AI usage is a poor proxy for productivity and raised concerns about workplace monitoring.

Co-author on ESAT synthetic data generation research paper.

Co-author of PLOS study on FDA-cleared AI medical devices and clinical validation evidence.

Put plainly to IEEE Spectrum that knowing benchmark accuracy tells little about how well models would fit in real practice.

Ray Toth

Creator

User at The Rundown

Community member from Huntsville, AL who built self-hosted AI wine cellar app with Docker and Claude.

Byline author covering Nvidia's N1X laptop chip and Vera Rubin AI platform announcements at Computex 2026.

Co-author of Anthropic study on disempowerment patterns in real-world LLM usage

Raymond Lo

Researcher

Researcher at Hugging Face

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

Co-founder of 8090 Industries which co-led Nscale's $2 billion Series C funding round.

CEO of Humanloop, acquired by Anthropic as part of acqui-hire deal

Co-author of arXiv paper demonstrating that perplexity will not always select for more accurate models despite being widely used.

Rebecca Anselmetti

Researcher

Researcher

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

Co-authored SB 1119, authored AB 1856 and AB 302, and authored AB 1405 creating state AI auditor registry.

Dr. Rebecca Hinds heads the institute behind the Work AI Index 2026 report, which found that adoption alone does not equal transformation and context-rich environments reduce AI overhead.

Experienced writer working on Google Magi AI search product, experiencing pressure to prioritize speed over quality in rating tasks.

Co-author of article on NVIDIA's open data initiatives for AI training pipelines.

Discussed CrowdStrike's SafeMind launch and autonomous red teaming implications for defenders.

Rebecca Lin

Researcher

PhD Student at MIT

Lead author on Refashion project at MIT CSAIL that creates reconfigurable clothing using modular design software.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Dr. Rebecca Swift discussed AI sloppification of visual content, brand trust erosion, and the importance of authentic, high-quality imagery in marketing.

Google Senior Product Manager who authored article introducing Notebooks in Gemini for organizing chats and projects.

Member of AI71 Board and CEO of VentureOne; co-lead investor in CNTXT AI's Series A round.

Former World of Books business development director now at Zoom Books; World of Books was named in Anthropic destructive scanning litigation.

Reena Mehra

Researcher

Professor of Medicine at University of Washington

Senior clinical author of study on AI model that identifies patient groups with different long-term health risks from sleep studies.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

Reichart Roi

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Co-author on research about reasoning and factual recall in LLMs.

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

Rémi Cadène

Engineer

Former Tesla Scientist at UMA

Unveiled Northstar, a faceless humanoid robot targeting European factories and learning from demonstrations.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Briefs senior Chinese leaders on progress of Huawei's involvement in China's EUV lithography project.

Lead author of survey of 95,000 students across 20 US universities documenting that 9% engage in outright AI cheating and calling for urgent assessment reform.

Commented on market concerns about whether U.S. companies overspent on AI infrastructure after DeepSeek's efficient model.

Discussed how AI summarization changes information environment compared to search, affecting journalism and sources.

Co-author analyzing Grokipedia's frozen edit system and AI-generated encyclopedia governance.

Haitian-born model who portrayed Mavis Beacon in marketing materials but was not credited or compensated fairly.

Renjie Pi

Researcher

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Co-author contributing to research on multimodal reasoning and world models.

Co-author of the article on sycophantic AI and prosocial intentions

Led Brahma AI's $150M funding round and spoke about the company's Hollywood-grade technology heritage.

Renzon Cruz was a co-author of the Unit 42 investigation into an AI-assisted cyber attack that demonstrated unprecedented speed in enterprise network breaches.

Philosopher of mathematics noted that Platonism and formalism were untenable and problems of truth have practical consequences.

Author on paper introducing Kalman Delta Networks for uncertainty-aware associative memory in LLMs.

Reyk Knuhtsen

Researcher

Analyst at SemiAnalysis

SemiAnalysis analyst forecasting 50GW of new data center capacity in 2027 with chips and memory as bottlenecks.

Reyna Abhyankar

Engineer

Engineer at Together

Member of the Together Compiler team developing agentic optimization for production inference.

Reza Bayat

Researcher

Author of "Mixture-of-Recursions" on arXiv

Pitches the heterogeneous architecture of Alif's processors as purpose-built for neural network inference from inception.

Co-wrote article about OpenClaw AI agent accidentally hacking Melbourne gym booking system.

Lead author of peer-reviewed study analyzing user-reported LLM hallucinations in mobile app reviews.

Co-founder and CEO of Volta, building a fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform to finance and deploy AI factories.

Published a column in the Financial Times about Trump's tariff regime that was noted to use AI and later appended with a note about AI usage.

Authored article on ElevenLabs launching Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech model

Teacher from Texas hired as one of the first super raters for Google's AI products; discusses wage disparities and union organizing efforts