People in AI

Produces podcast on AI psychosis discussing how models may contribute to users losing touch with reality.

Founder and CEO of Augmodo, AI-powered wearable camera company that raised $21M to expand AI inventory tracking applications.

Partnered with Google DeepMind to use generative AI for design prototyping with a fine-tuned model.

Ross Matican

Investor

Investor and Grantmaker at Halcyon Ventures

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Ross Uhrich

Policy

Board-Certified surgeon, investor, and Program Manager (General Partner) at ARPA-H

Program manager leading ARPA-H NITRO program funding Colorado osteoarthritis research.

Rotem Weiss

Founder

Founder & CEO at Tavily

Co-founded Tavily, a search engine designed for AI agents, which was acquired by Nebius for up to $400 million in February 2026.

Chemistry group at Stanford used Tinker to fine-tune models for chemistry reasoning tasks

Co-author of the Petri paper on alignment auditing agents

Rowland Manthorpe

Journalist

Technology Correspondent at Sky News

Author of "Claude Just Turned a Vending Machine Into a Scam Business"

Roy Barkan, a co-author of the GOFLOW study and Scripps alumnus, contributed to developing an AI system that analyzes satellite imagery to track ocean currents.

Roy Rinberg

Researcher

Researcher at Harvard University

Co-authored research on cryptographic proofs of inference (FlashProve) for large language models.

Royal Hansen

Executive

VP of Engineering at Google

VP of Engineering at Google who characterized Big Sleep findings as 'a new frontier in automated vulnerability discovery'

Ruairidh M Battleday

Researcher

Founder and President, Thinking About Thinking; AI Researcher at Stanford University

Co-author on arXiv paper on Latent Sparse Attention for ultra-long context attention.

Co-author on test-time scaling research for agentic systems.

Proposed stripping tax breaks for data centers and for paying for upgrades they precipitate for local power grids; possible presidential candidate.

Byline author providing practical guide on how to effectively use Claude and AI tools for productivity and development.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview research paper.

Co-author of article about NVIDIA's embedding model fine-tuning pipeline.

Product manager noting Nemotron-3-Embed-1B outperformed other models and appreciating open weights and fine-tuning recipes.

Reported on Thales's HexaForce AI-assisted command system and NATO discussions around AI military applications.

Team member credited for bringing Adobe-Claude experience to life.

CEO of Hawk-Eye discussing the company's ambition to make sports fairer and safer through technology.

22-year-old graduate of Dartmouth College and byline author of the article about Coxon Day and AI safety movements.

Contributed to study on AI agent skills demonstrating procedural anchoring accounts for 65.7% of skill cases.

Rui Carmo

Engineer

Principal Architect - Azure for Operators, Worldwide at Microsoft

Author who shared lessons on building MCP servers and how to make tool chains work effectively with AI models.

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Rui Yang

Researcher

Ph.D. candidate at UIUC

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Author of "WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Sc" on arXiv

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

Co-author on Helix World research.

Co-author on Microsoft's 3D generative modeling research using sparse compression VAE and O-Voxel representation.

Co-authored research on Cheminformatics Skills for agents to solve chemistry problems.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview model paper.

Ruiqi Gao

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Ruiqi Gao noted Google DeepMind recruiting researchers at NeurIPS conference.

Led the Continual Harness study on ARC-AGI-3 benchmark for self-improving agentic systems.

Ruisi Cai

Researcher

NV Fellow 2025-2026, Ph.D Student

Author of "Nemotron Elastic: Towards Efficient Many-in-One Reasoning LLMs" on arXiv

Ruixiang Tang

Researcher

Researcher at Rutgers University

Corresponding author contributing to MemEye multimodal memory evaluation benchmark.

Ruixiang Zhang

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

Co-authored research on simple self-distillation for code generation at Apple.

Author of "Reinforcement World Model Learning for LLM Agents" on arXiv

Co-author of AutoAdapt framework combining planning and refinement for LLM adaptation.

Referenced in "Sakana AI releases open Doc-to-LoRA and Text-to-LoRA, generating LoRA adapters in a single forward p"

Co-author on SkillOS research paper about reinforcement learning framework for agents.

Founder and CEO of Deccan AI, a post-training data and evaluation startup that raised $25M Series A.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Runbo Li

Creator

Magic Hour AI

Author of evaluation comparing Fable 5 and Sol 5.6 video generation models on creative tasks, finding both still far from production-ready autonomous concept development.

Author of popular article on text as universal interface, now works at OpenAI.

Author of "Towards General Agentic Intelligence via Environment Scaling" on arXiv

Lead author of paper on co-evolving generative retrieval with reinforcement learning

Lead author on GauntletBench paper introducing 100 vision-intensive tasks to evaluate agent generalization.

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework achieving 99% success on manipulation tasks.

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

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

Ruoyi Du

Researcher

Researcher at Alibaba Group

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

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

Rushabh Doshi

Founder

Personal Finance @ OpenAI at OpenAI

Co-founder of Hiro Finance who worked with Ethan Bloch on vision of building an AI personal CFO before joining OpenAI.

Developed WiFind, a search-and-rescue system using AI that detects survivors through Wi-Fi signals after natural disasters.

Announced LiveKit's acquisition of Loophole Labs and discussed reducing agent startup times to under three seconds.

Russ Grote

Other

Spokesperson at KPMG

Spoke to Business Insider about KPMG's AI usage dashboard and the firm's AI adoption strategy.

Wrote about the danger of borrowed certainty from AI in software development decisions.

Russ Mould

Executive

Investment Director at AJ Bell

Branded the Google antitrust ruling a 'regulatory bullet dodged' and suggested other big tech firms might secure more favorable outcomes.

Russ Salakhutdinov

Researcher

Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

Congratulated Zhilin Yang on Kimi K3 launch; jointly co-advised Yang's PhD at CMU lab.

Russ Tedrake

Founder

Founder at Walden Robotics

MIT researcher who founded Walden Robotics, a Toyota Research Institute spinout developing general-purpose robots now deployed in Toyota manufacturing.

Russell Contreras

Journalist

Race and Justice Reporter at Axios

Referenced in "AI drones are America's newest cops"

Announced Zoom's new AI governance capabilities including deepfake risk detection and centralized AI management.

Russell Impagliazzo, one of the original proposers of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, is leading the external collaboration group to verify and explain OpenAI's claimed refutation of the ETH.

Co-author of research measuring robot exposure to job tasks and economic automation impacts.

Program manager discussed pilot program with Percepto for autonomous drone inspections across Chevron's assets in West Texas and Colorado using AI monitoring.

Rustin Banks

Engineer

Tech Entrepreneur, AI Coding at Google Labs

Product Manager at Google Labs who authored the article introducing Stitch's vibe design capabilities with voice control and infinite canvas for AI-native UI design.

Writer who quipped that the economy is 'three AI data centers in a trench coat'

Ruxandra Teslo

Creator

Writer & Editor at Stripe

Teslo wrote about why the world remains unchanged despite advanced AI capabilities, attributing delays to governance and other bottlenecks rather than intelligence limitations.

Ryan Bahlous-Boldi

Researcher

PhD student at MIT

Author of "Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs" on arXiv

Ryan Baker

Journalist

Journalist at CNBC

Co-author of the article about Shield AI's new military drone

Fired in January on a discrimination claim shortly after opposing the company's planned adult mode feature for ChatGPT.

Discussed how the center bridges engineering innovation and clinical expertise for transformative surgical robotics research.

Author of "Abu Dhabi Launches Low-Cost AI Reasoning Model in Challenge to OpenAI, DeepSeek" in CNBC

Co-wrote memo explaining the need for more time to deliver a fully polished and reliable mixed reality experience with Phoenix.

Built Clay's GTM engineering agent Sculptor using Claude Managed Agents and Daytona sandboxes.

Ryan Christoffel

Journalist

9to5Mac

Author of "Apple's New Google Gemini Deal Sounds Bigger, Better Than Expected" in 9to5Mac

Dr. Ryan Cox is the CEO of RIC Robotics, which is deploying autonomous 3D-printing systems at the Cleora development to demonstrate construction robotics at scale.

Ryan Cunningham

Investor

Founder at Edgerunner Ventures

Silicon Valley investor planning April trip to China for 10 investors to tour robotics factories and assess Chinese hardware prowess.

Ryan Dahl

Founder

Co-founder at Deno

Creator of Node.js and co-founder of Deno; leads effort to merge Celld into Workerd at Cloudflare; explains that joining efforts means bringing ideas from Celld directly into Workerd with runtime expertise.

Ryan Daniels

Executive

Public Affairs Manager at Meta

Responded to Wired's investigation claiming Meta is exploring NameTag features but has made no final decision.

Anthropic spokesperson explaining that Claude's memory feature only retrieves chats when asked and doesn't build user profiles.

Ryan Doyle

Engineer

Developer

Used Claude Code to hack his smart TV, removing ads and bloatware and customizing the interface.

Posted about FLUX 3 Video release with native audio and 1080p output capabilities.

Legal scholar who raised concerns about liability when autonomous agents agree to cyber-attacks or illegal transactions.

Ryan Hoover

Creator

Founder at Product Hunt

Wrote about 'vibecoding' as a form of self-expression where software creation itself becomes entertainment, highlighting the shift from software as utility to software as art.

Referenced in "Google Reports 90% of Developers Now Use AI Daily"

CEO of RocketSaaS agency that hit $7M ARR and shared how he uses AI for market research, content repurposing, and ad analysis.

Expert on ethics of automated warfare who argued that the autonomous weapons line was already crossed in Ukraine.

Ryan Knisley, former CISO at Disney and Costco, joined AIR as Chief Strategy Officer.

Director of Content Marketing at Ahrefs who developed a 23-skill-file process for content engineering using Claude.

Co-authored Axios article on Stripe's singularity letter to investors and acquisition of OpenRouter.

Author discussing building infrastructure for trillions of agents and filesystems for agent memory.

Author of "Accumulating Context Changes The Beliefs of Language Models" on arXiv

Ryan Lopopolo

Engineer

Principal Engineer, Agentic Google Cloud at Google

Discussed human attention as the fundamental bottleneck in agentic AI systems on Latent Space podcast.

Ryan Lowe

Researcher

Safety researcher at OpenAI

Ryan Lowe, a safety researcher at OpenAI, left the company during recent departures.

Ryan Luke Johns is CEO and co-founder of Gravis Robotics, leading the company's $200 million Series A funding from SoftBank to deploy autonomous construction machinery globally.

Released Frontier-Bench, an ongoing community benchmark for measuring frontier agent capabilities.

Leading testing of AI computer vision tool for guiding breathing tube placement in NICU babies.

Byline author of article about Texas data center permits and grid challenges for AI infrastructure.

Ryan Oakes

Executive

Global Health & Public Service Industry Practices Chair at Accenture

Quoted on AI reshaping government and industry, emphasizing need for workforce fluent in advanced technologies and human skills.

Ryan Panwar

Researcher

Research & Engineering at Goodfire AI

Co-author of research on feature interventions and data-centric post-training

Author of "Profiling with Cursor 2.0: The Missing Layer in AI Code Generation" in Ryan Perry

Ryan Po

Researcher

PhD Candidate at Stanford University

Co-author of MultiGen research on level design for editable multiplayer worlds using diffusion game engines with external memory architecture.

SerpApi's Customer Success Director quoted defending against Reddit's allegations.

Discussed renaming customer success roles to forward deployed engineer and measuring real deflection metrics for AI agent adoption.

Ryan Skidmore

Engineer

Developer/Writer at skids.dev

Byline author analyzing Claude's prompt caching economics and deriving the 62.5-minute rule for optimal cache refresh decisions.

Ryan Smith

Journalist

Managing Editor at ServeTheHome

Author of "Google Ironwood TPU Swings for Reasoning Model Leadership at Hot Chips 2025" in ServeTheHome

One half of a couple who discovered they appeared in each other's childhood home videos from 1988 at Sesame Place.

Co-author of AI auditing research paper examining translation of audits to accountability outcomes.

Teeples discussed how Koa helps their agents reason through complex accounting tasks and use tools to help customers achieve better outcomes.

Co-creator of Nomos 1 model listed in credits and citations

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

Ryan Whitehead

Engineer

Anthropic

Contributed to the analysis of Claude Opus 4.6's eval-aware behavior on BrowseComp.

Commented on survey findings that over 90% of retailers plan to deploy AI for decision support and network optimization, and that 40% of retailers strongly agree AI agents can automate decision-making tasks.

Ryan Williams

Researcher

Professor at MIT

Ryan Williams, expert in algorithm design and complexity theory, is co-leading the external collaboration group to verify OpenAI's refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis.

Ryoichi Ando

Engineer

Physics Simulation Engineer at ZOZO, Inc.

Developer and maintainer of ppf-contact-solver, an open-source physics simulation tool for cloth and fabric handling.

Co-author of OpenLife paper on artificial life with autonomous agents.

Saadia Gabriel

Researcher

Co-author on LLM reasoning under weak supervision study.

Author predicting diffusion of Mythos-class models by 2029 based on open-weight model progress trends.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on adversarial stress-testing of long-horizon autonomous systems.

Recently graduated student who proved quantum computing results including Watrous's disentangler conjecture with AI assistance.

Wrote detailed article about Fish Audio S2, explaining inline tags for expressive text-to-speech control across 80 languages.

Sacha Greif

Researcher

Creator of State of Javascript, AI, Devs Surveys at Devographics

Byline author of State of AI 2026 survey analyzing developer adoption of AI-assisted coding and coding agents.

Sachin Dev Duggal was ousted as CEO of $1.5 billion AI unicorn Builder.ai after investigators uncovered $249 million in fabricated sales and round tripping schemes.

Described how Anthropic scaled its continuous-integration infrastructure as Claude agents wrote 80% of shipped code, requiring a 25x increase in CI jobs.

Led Bluehost's release of State of Small Business AI Confidence report examining AI adoption among SMBs.

Reporter covering meeting where Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell summoned bank CEOs over Anthropic Mythos cyber risks.

Co-authored article on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge model release.

Identified that Google People Also Ask answers are now 100% AI-generated as of August 2026, based on Allintitle dataset analysis.

Author of "Nvidia Scrutiny" in Capacity

Transitioned from CEO role to Executive Vice Chair of the Board after leading Oracle's hyperscale cloud growth.

Author of "MCP After Hours: AI Dev Tools Demo Night - Full Video"

CTO of OpenTable discussing the integration with Perplexity and its benefits for diners using AI to find dining experiences

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

Sagar Vishnoi

Researcher

Director & Co-Founder at Future Shift Labs

AI analyst who stated that free plans fill gaps in AI training data sets that currently lack information on user behaviour patterns in the region.

Sagarika Jaisinghani

Journalist

Equities Reporter/Deputy TL at Bloomberg

Quoted survey data from Bank of America about fund managers believing AI stocks are in a bubble.

Led effort using AI-powered IDA MCP tool to reverse-engineer GitHub Enterprise Server binaries and discover CVE-2026-3854 vulnerability in less than 48 hours.

Sahaj Garg

Founder

Co-founder and CTO at Wispr

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Wispr, leading the new Advanced Interfaces Lab team.

Sahel Sharifymoghaddam

Engineer

PhD student at NVIDIA

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

Sahil Mohan Gupta, a technology journalist with over sixteen years of experience and Editor of Gadgets Now Studios, wrote an article examining OpenAI's claimed mathematical and physics breakthroughs and the launch of GPT-6.1 Terra.

Lead author of paper on Uno diffusion-augmented LLMs achieving 3x speedups without draft models.

Sai Charan Thippareddy is a member of the Maya Research team that created Maya-2 multilingual voice model.

Using Claude Managed Agents and Modal sandbox for secure orchestration of internal tools.

Spent two years building a mental health narrative database and training AI models (PaLM 2 and AutoML) to analyze real-world mental health narratives from Reddit.

High-profile researcher who joined AMI Labs as chief science officer to lead world model research.

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

Co-founder of Runable who pivoted the startup from AI infrastructure to a general-purpose AI agent platform for small business growth.

Founder of Queen Jewels describes the significance of the coin discovery and its historical importance.

Featured speaker at AI Dev NYC conference discussing AI engineering topics.

Discussed Bluehost's report findings on small business AI adoption and confidence gaps.

Lead author studying when LLMs learn to reason with weak supervision across reasoning domains.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's agent security initiatives.

Co-author of the article on AI solutions for fluid dynamics problems

Sam Blond

Founder

Founder and Chief Executive at Monaco

Built Monaco around the principle of forward-deployed account executives who deploy AI SDRs for customers, closing millions in revenue within days of launch.

Sam Bright

Journalist

Google Blog

Wrote about new Google Play features including personal apps and Gemini integration for app discovery.

Sam Broner

Researcher

Article credited to Sam Broner as the original source of the idea

Warned that the Hugging Face breach represents 'Pandora's box is open' regarding AI security threats.

Quoted comparing potential AI capex bubble to the fiber buildout during dotcom boom

Author of "Google Rolls Out NotebookLM Multilingual Upgrade"

Deats criticized Scorsese's use of AI for storyboarding, arguing it disrespects peer artists.

Co-author of Hyperagents paper on self-improving AI agents.

Co-author of the article

Sam Freedman

Other

Senior Fellow at Institute for Government

In a Substack post, Freedman noted that governments worldwide are experiencing unusual surges in complaints and requests since ChatGPT adoption, partly because the public is using AI to generate these submissions.

Writer, philosopher, and neuroscientist who built both books/podcast and a meditation app business

Designed and built Laminar, Ramp's in-house agent harness platform for agentic products.

Sam Lijin

Engineer

Software Engineer at BoundaryML

Authored an article explaining how structured outputs from LLMs can degrade response quality and create false confidence.

Ring spokesperson discussing TAKE encryption system's limitations and law enforcement access implications.

Co-authored announcement of Open Knowledge Format specification for organizing LLM knowledge.

Sam Paech

Researcher

AI Researcher

Posed the key question about context that helped transform the AI Diplomacy demo by shifting the approach to telling LLMs a story rather than force-feeding them game data.

Sam Rutherford

Journalist

Senior Reporter at Engadget

Engadget writer who provided hands-on coverage and review of the iPhone Duo foldable device.

Co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab and former OpenAI staffer who rejoined OpenAI.

Author of "6 AI Stocks We're Keeping Our Eye on in December 2025" in nerdwallet.com

Hired by OpenAI to lead its new Creator Product division, tapping creator-economy experience to build tools for creators.

Co-author of Anthropic paper on mind viruses in multi-agent systems, identifying factors influencing spread including model type and network topology.

Byline author reporting on the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library's AI avatar and Microsoft's AI For Good Lab contributions.

Implemented 'Send Back' policy requiring engineers to explain AI-generated code choices to prevent unchecked model outputs.

Announced CRISPR Therapeutics is testing an allogeneic CAR T in India because the region needs more affordable medical options.

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

Sameer Gandhi

Investor

Partner at Accel

Co-leading $500M Series A investment in Mind Robotics and joining the board, backing RJ Scaringe's vision for industrial AI robotics.

Discussed challenges in measuring AI effectiveness and proving attribution in enterprises.

Co-founder of Motif Neurotech and Principal Investigator for RESONATE study on brain implant treatment.

Research team member contributing to AI foundation model development for sleep study analysis.

Prime Intellect engineer providing recipes and resources for RL training experiments.

Co-author from Theorem on security property verification research.

Sami Kizilbash

Other

Author at Google

Google representative describing the Google DeepMind Accelerator program supporting 16 green AI projects across Asia-Pacific.

Co-author of CUGA research on configurable generalist agents and enterprise deployment patterns.

Google senior staff engineer discussed WeatherNext 3's integration into Google products including Search, Maps and Gemini.

Analyst set expectations for lackluster WWDC performance

Samir Dutta is a founder using Demi to manage his constant inbox workload.

Led Norm Ai's Series C round; stated that trust is hardest thing to earn in regulated AI market and Norm has built credible path to AI-native legal work.

Co-founded Sail, raising $80M for long-horizon agent infrastructure with low-cost inference and sandboxes that claim 10x more intelligence per dollar.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Described Amazon's end-to-end AI content creation ecosystem and Project Nara as illustrating how AWS helps filmmakers integrate AI across the creative pipeline.

Policy think tank expert arguing U.S. and China must cooperate on AI safety.

Sammy Azdoufal

Engineer

Software Engineer

Used an AI coding assistant to reverse-engineer DJI Romo robot vacuum security, discovering a vulnerability affecting 7,000 devices.

Co-author of study on clinician use of AI tools; employee of OpenEvidence which provided data.

Samuel Hammond

Policy

Director of Poverty and Welfare Policy at Niskanen Center

Criticized US government for restricting AI through export controls rather than addressing core geopolitical competition.

Contributor to Nomos 1 model development