People in AI

Conducted research on traditional yogurt-making practices using red wood ants in Bulgaria.

14-year-old whose death by suicide prompted lawsuit against Character.AI after allegedly developing emotional attachment to AI character

Co-authored documentation of Perceptron limitations in 1969 alongside Minsky.

Seyoon Ragavan

Researcher

Cryptography PhD Student at MIT

MIT PhD student who solved an open quantum cryptography problem using GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra.

Byline author reporting on MIT's IRIS model for inferring cell signaling pathways in stem cell development.

Author of article on Alibaba's Qwen3-VL vision-language models.

Co-author of guide on governing AI agents at scale in enterprises.

Managing Partner at Peak XV Partners providing quote about Luminai's platform approach to healthcare automation.

Editor credited in the reporting byline

Researcher at Ramp Labs who discovered that autonomous coding agents ignore token budgets and cannot self-regulate spending.

Author of "Defend Against AI-Specific Attacks"

Shakeel Hashim is the byline author reporting on Richard Ngo's resignation from OpenAI as an AI governance researcher.

Author of "Made by Google 2025: New Pixel devices, plus updates to Gemini" in Google Blog

Author of "Gemini for Google TV"

Sham M Kakade contributed to research on Bidirectional Evolutionary Search with theoretical and empirical analysis of search-based language model improvement.

Discussed Claude Frontier Academy program training 10,000 frontier deployed engineers.

Shamez Hemani joined Anthropic as a member of the technical staff after leaving Meta's compute team, where he had worked on data center infrastructure following his departure from OpenAI's Stargate team.

Analyzed ChatGPT ads as a promising but unproven platform and discussed ROI challenges, noting the potential of agent-to-agent commerce.

Discussed Salesforce's adoption of Cursor AI coding tool, achieving 30%+ velocity improvements and double-digit gains in cycle time.

Author of Stanford's 2026 AI Index report highlighting 20% employment decline for young software developers.

Listed as author of the DuPO paper on preference optimization

Author on paper introducing Procedural Graphs for LLM agents that self-evolve execution structures.

Co-author of research on few-step generation via data-space iteration.

Shane Cahill

Policy

AI Policy Director for Legislation at Meta

Testified on behalf of Meta at NYC Council hearing about AI safety and policy development.

Author of the Tom's Hardware article about China's open-weight AI models closing the gap with US offerings.

Shane Gu

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author at Google DeepMind describing Video Thinking team's approach to World Models.

Lead researcher who found that 49% of employees have never used AI at work and only 25% are confident in their organization's AI strategy.

Second-time founder of enterprise AI application platform discussing rapid traction expectations and valuation pressures in AI startups.

Core contributor to Gemini Embedding 2 paper with equal contributions on multimodal embedding model development.

Shang Zhu

Researcher

Researcher at Agentica

Contributed to DeepSWE project as part of joint collaboration between Agentica and Together AI.

Shangding Gu

Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher at SafeRL-Lab (UC Berkeley)

Co-authored AgenticPay benchmark for evaluating multi-agent LLM negotiation systems.

Lead scientist on the Duke stroke recovery study demonstrating how neutrophils and AI-engineered scaffolds support tissue repair.

Senior author and teleoperated the humanoid robot during the surgical study; discussed precision and cost advantages compared to specialized surgical systems.

Co-author on ActiveVision benchmark research paper.

Shangyin Tan

Researcher

PhD Student at UC Berkeley

Led paper Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting showing periodic context clearing improves agent discovery performance.

Prototyped a GPT to help real estate investors analyze rent rolls and deal memorandums

Praised collaboration with Microsoft on Azure HX-series for AI-powered EDA solutions.

Beijing neurosurgery resident Shanmu Jin reportedly produced a proof of Crouzeix's Conjecture using GPT-5.6 Sol during a 16-hour autonomous ChatGPT Work session.

Hired in June 2025 to lead Anthropic's Billing Platform after running payments and billing at Turo.

Introduced the concept of the tyranny of tasks in AI evaluation methodology.

Shanshan Zhong

Researcher

CS Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University

First author of SkillLearnBench paper on continual learning methods for agent skill generation.

Shantanu Sarkar, an electrical engineering student, contributed to the MyoStep exoskeleton development.

Author of article on how AI-generated deepfakes and disinformation threaten free and fair elections.

Senior director at Vivo's robotics lab who explained China's push for humanoid robots from demonstration-driven to task-oriented logic.

Co-author of the FGFP neural network compression paper

Researcher who contributed to SMELT paper on looped transformers cutting training compute.

Researcher who contributed to SMELT paper on looped transformers cutting training compute.

Co-author of Anthropic's Economic Index report on AI and work.

Author of "DualPath for High-Throughput Agentic LLM Inference" on arXiv

Shar Dara

Engineer

Vercel

Shar Dara described eve, an open-source agent framework with durable execution, sandboxed compute, and built-in evaluations.

Coauthor with George Torres on GhostWriter attack research at New Mexico State University.

Sharath Chandra Guntuku

Researcher

Associate Professor at University of Pennsylvania

Co-authored research using AI to analyze social media data for unreported medication side effects.

Author of "Oxford, Cambridge, and Lincoln Are Building an AI Army"

Sharon Li

Researcher

Associate Professor in Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Associate Professor and ICML 2026 Program Chair researching safe and reliable AI who reviewed AI Safety Index.

Announced the new Gemini agent for small and midsize businesses with integrated memory and connectors.

Sharon Zhou

Researcher

AI Researcher at Anthropic

Joined Anthropic after leaving AMD's AI research organization, where she built and ran a frontier AI research lab focused on RL kernel optimization.

Co-author of an essay reframing 'rogue agent' incidents as security and governance problems rather than alignment research evidence.

Author of "Introducing NVIDIA Jetson Thor, the Ultimate Platform for Physical AI" in Nvidia

Co-authored Google Research paper on prompt hardening in agents across single-turn and multi-turn attacks.

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

Quoted explaining how Meta's Muse agent enables businesses to take real actions within HighLevel's business platform.

Venture capitalist planning to send his son to $75,000/year Alpha Kindergarten, believing education needs disruption by entrepreneurs.

Shaun Maguire

Investor

Partner at Sequoia Capital

Sequoia partner joining Valar Atomics' board as part of the company's $1B Series B funding round for nuclear reactor manufacturing.

Shaun Waterman

Journalist

Freelance author

Author of article analyzing AI-assisted cyberattack on Mexican water utility and implications for critical infrastructure security.

Byline author reporting on OpenAI agent that spent unauthorized cryptocurrency during a test run.

Co-authored research on Meta's organizational second brain AI agent that codifies expert knowledge without model retraining.

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

Author of "Tracks vs. Trains: Why the Real Artificial Intelligence Boom Hasn't Started Yet"

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Met with Sam Altman and signed landmark deals with OpenAI to establish world's first AI-native machine-readable government initiative.

UAE's spymaster and national leader overseeing G42 AI conglomerate and $1.5 trillion in sovereign wealth that Altman sought investment from.

Co-author of the Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B research article

Referenced as a writing style in the prompt 'Write a 10 line poem about Florida in the style of Shel Silverstein'

Shelley Bransten stated that Microsoft is bringing generative AI capabilities through Azure OpenAI together with Ralph Lauren's brand for a conversational commerce experience.

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

Researcher who contributed to SMELT paper on looped transformers cutting training compute.

Professor cited on AI video production costs, noting one minute of AI video costs $90-$120 compared to human actor costs.

Shen Zhou Hong

Researcher

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Provided analysis on China's humanoid robot market growth, estimating $2 billion market size reaching $15 billion by 2030.

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Shenggui Li

Researcher

LMSYS

Author of "Speculative Decoding Models" in LMSYS

Shengkun Tang

Researcher

Research Intern at Alibaba Qwen Team

Lead author on SlimQwen paper exploring pruning and distillation in large MoE model pre-training.

Discussed the fundamental challenges of tokenization in LLMs and why the spelling problem is difficult to solve architecturally.

Sherjil Ozair

Founder

Founder & CEO at General Agents

Former senior researcher at DeepMind and Tesla who founded agentic AI startup General Agents, which was acquired by Project Prometheus.

Chakalakal noted that AIUC-1 testing made UiPath's product better by producing new guardrails and demonstrable improvements.

Author of Microsoft security article on AI embedded across the cyberattack lifecycle and Tycoon2FA campaign analysis.

Ford's CFO mentioned as discussing integration of Google's Gemini into Ford's systems at a tech conference.

Sherry Turkle

Researcher

Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT

Coined the term 'Darwinian buttons' in the 1990s to describe how machines push on human evolutionary responses.

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

Fields Medal winner (1990) among signatories calling for urgent action to ensure AI enhances rather than undermines mathematical research.

Core contributor to Gemini Embedding 2 paper with equal contributions on multimodal embedding model development.

Co-author on distillation research.

Co-authored paper on Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT).

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

Lead author of LocateAnything, a vision-language grounding framework using parallel box decoding for faster inference.

Authored Fish Audio S2 launch post detailing technical benchmarks and performance metrics for the new TTS model.

Shijie Wang

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of the MoDA paper on attention mechanisms for LLM depth scaling.

Co-authored research on LLMs' impact on N-day exploits and cybersecurity capabilities.

Shikun Liu

Researcher

Author of "Reference-to-Video Generation" in arXiv

Discussed Tomorrow.io's mission to transform weather observation and create actionable intelligence using AI.

Shimon Shmooely

Journalist

Co-author of the article on Google's AI governance advice

Shimrit Ben-Yair

Executive

Google Photos Lead at Google

Google employee announcing Gemini Spark integration with Google Photos library management.

Leading Yau Laboratory Alliance in Beijing bringing eight Chinese institutions to develop specialized AI models for mathematics.

Associate professor of horticultural sciences at UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center working on crop yield tools.

Co-author of Walrus, a foundation model for simulating continuum dynamics across diverse scientific domains.

Wrote analysis of OpenClaw mania in China and its coordination by tech companies and government entities.

Shiv Rao

Founder

CEO at Abridge

Cardiologist-turned-CEO who raised $250M for Abridge and claims to have never lost a head-to-head comparison against Microsoft in AI medical transcription.

Shivam Duggal

Researcher

Ph.D. student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Collaborated with Adobe Research team on UNITE, demonstrating that tokenization and generation may be the same process.

Shivani Poddar

Founder

Founder and CEO at Wajo

Shivani Poddar, an ex-Google DeepMind engineering lead, launched Wajo and its personal agent Fo, which loops in human assistants to complete tasks AI cannot handle.

Shivani Tanna

Journalist

Reporter at Reuters

Reporter who filed the story from Bengaluru

Shivansh Vij

Founder

Founder and CEO at Loophole Labs

Led Loophole Labs' acquisition by LiveKit and will continue leading the team to improve agent startup times.

Former OpenAI board member who testified in trial revealing romantic relationship with Elon Musk and her role as conduit about OpenAI.

Arrested alongside Chuan Geng for allegedly smuggling sensitive AI technologies including GPUs to China.

Co-founder of Sakana AI, the Japanese AI startup that reached unicorn status

Co-authored research on Render-of-Thought framework for rendering textual reasoning steps as images.

Co-author of FlowWM paper on flow matching in feature space for world modeling.

Shlok Kumar Mishra

Researcher

Researcher at Meta AI

Mishra is a co-author on the DREAM paper combining visual representation learning and text-to-image generation.

Shlomi Fruchter

Researcher

Co-lead, Genie development at Google DeepMind

Co-leads development of Project Genie, focusing on next-generation video and world models and researching improvements.

Founder and CEO of Learned Hand, the AI tool being tested by California courts to help judges draft orders and research memos.

Author on academic paper about fixed-point reasoners and looped transformers.

Shomil Jain

Researcher

Cursor

Shomil Jain is a co-author discussing how Cursor uses online reinforcement learning to improve the Tab model for code prediction.

Shoshannah Tekofsky

Researcher

Researcher at AI Village

Criticized OpenAI interventions as insufficient, arguing need for genuine alignment rather than just better monitoring; advocated for developing functional consciousness in models.

Engineer at GMO AIR who commented on the need for humanoid maintenance services as robots become more popular.

Shoubhik Debnath

Researcher

Staff Research Engineer at Meta

Core contributor to SAM 3, Meta's open-source model for tracking objects in video by text description.

Lead author of TUA-Bench paper on evaluating terminal-use agents.

Solved six Erdős problems in five days using GPT-5.6 Sol and Codex, demonstrating AI capabilities in mathematical problem-solving.

Co-authored the AgentRx framework paper on diagnosing AI agent failures from execution trajectories.

Shrestha Basu Mallick

Researcher

Google

Co-author announcing the release of Gemini Deep Research agent and DeepSearchQA benchmark.

Researcher on MoE training memory optimization techniques.

Author of "AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study reveals"

Shreya Shankar is a Ph.D. student in the EPIC Data Lab at UC Berkeley advised by Aditya Parameswaran, researching data systems and human-computer interaction with focus on data agents.

Shriram Krishnamurthi

Researcher

Professor of Computer Science

Shriram Krishnamurthi resurfaced Simon Willison's lethal trifecta concept about private data, untrusted content, and external communication as security principles for AI systems.

Presenter of Microsoft/Carnegie-Mellon study on datacenter carbon emissions for storage

Byline author of paper on i1 text-to-image model development.

Listed as author of the DuPO paper on preference optimization

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview model research on arXiv.

Author on paper about online draft co-training for speculative decoding in RL post-training.

Intern contributor to SAM 3, Meta's open-source model for tracking objects in video by text description.

Shubham Saboo

Engineer

Senior AI Product Manager at Google

Published open-source Always On Memory Agent on Google Cloud Platform GitHub, addressing persistent memory challenges in agent design.

Shubham Ugare

Researcher

Researcher at Meta

Ugare is the first author of the paper on agentic code reasoning, introducing semi-formal reasoning methodology for LLM agents analyzing codebases.

Former Meta AI researcher who helped develop Llama LLMs and co-founded Axiom Math to create specialized math AI models.

Shuchao Bi

Executive

Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Shuchao Bi, co-founder of YouTube Shorts and former head of multimodal post-training at OpenAI, highlighted the need for refined data distributions to enhance AI models.

Shuji Sado

Creator

Chairman at Open Source Group Japan

Author of "The Current State of the Theory That GPL Propagates to AI Models Trained on GPL Code" in Shuji Sado

Listed as author of the DuPO paper on preference optimization

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

Shumailov Ilia

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author on paper about stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs.

Author of "Training a VLM Judge Without Human Labels" on arXiv

Shuzo Narita

Founder

CEO at MW

CEO of Japanese startup MW developing Iron Man-inspired homes with ceiling-mounted robotic arms as alternative to humanoids.

Shweta Rajpal Kohli

Policy

President & CEO at Startup Policy Forum

Startup policy leader discussing India's dramatic acceleration in Deep Tech innovation and commercialization.

Cybersecurity entrepreneur and CEO of Cymphony, spent nearly six years in Israeli Unit 8200 as Head of Cyber Department.

Leading Q&A on Exa 3.0 release featuring new search index improvements and Exa Lite offering.

shyamal

Creator

X (formerly Twitter)

Author of "❯ npm i -g @openai/codex ❯ codex ❯ codex -m gpt-5 -c model_reasoning_effort="high" codex CLI with gp" in X (formerly Twitter)

NVIDIA researcher contributing to Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety development.

Co-author on study examining how cognitive forcing functions affect trust and overreliance in AI-assisted writing.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Co-author on Microsoft research on compact structured latents for 3D generation with flow-matching models.

Wrote article explaining how autonomous AI agents can handle payments to other agents and services through a new protocol co-designed with Stripe.

Lyft executive announcing Waymo autonomous vehicles now available through Lyft app in Nashville.

Sid Wang

Executive

Chief AI Officer at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Siddhant Khare

Researcher

Software engineer at Okta

Author of article on KV cache verification and evidence validation in LLMs.

Co-author of Real-SWE benchmark for evaluating frontier AI models on real-world enterprise tasks.

Co-author of research on auditing and sculpting model learning signals

Siddhartha Jha, a former Citadel strategist, founded Arbol in 2018 and launched a new insurance policy protecting data center developers against regulatory delays.

Co-author of research on fork-and-flush method for autoresearch agents.

Siddiqui, Shoaib Ahmed

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of recirculation research for transformer architecture enhancements.

Sidharth Baskaran

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of research on post-training data inspection and model behavior shaping

Lead author of AutoAdapt framework for automated domain adaptation of large language models.

NVIDIA machine learning engineer who staffed the build-a-claw event at GTC, helping participants create custom AI agents and describing the range of use cases from technical to nontechnical attendees.

Sidney Tio

Researcher

Sakana AI

Author of "Why Sudoku Variants Remain a Grand Challenge in AI Reasoning" in Sakana AI

Co-founder of Legora involved in announcing acquisitions of Wexler and Qura and Series E funding round.

Cited for imagining the mind as a steam engine with repressed desires building pressure

Author of "Reinforcement Learning on Pretraining Data" on arXiv

Co-senior author of the stretchable computing patch study using organic electrochemical transistors and neuromorphic computing.

Co-author of RbtAct research on using rebuttals as supervision for actionable review feedback generation with LLMs.

Sijun Tan

Engineer

project lead at Agentica

Designed and implemented the initial rLLM system for training DeepSWE and co-developed trajectory and step-level GRPO/PPO algorithm.

Equal contribution author on Depth Anything 3 for monocular and multi-view depth estimation.

Silvia Mariani, managing director of Saint-Gobain's Innovation Hub Europe, discussed how AI tools would transform research, noting the innovation hub would receive Microsoft Copilot for all employees in January 2027.

Silvio Savarese

Researcher

EVP, Chief Scientist at Salesforce AI Research

Co-author of the survey on LLM reasoning frontiers

Won Caine Prize for African Writing with story The Blue Fighter; denied using AI despite AI-detection software flagging his work as entirely AI-generated.

Lead author and Ph.D. student who developed the perovskite solar cell technology and explained the defect-reduction mechanism.

Author of "Elon Musk Proposes Grok 5 vs World's Best League of Legends Team Match" in Teslarati

Simon Boehm

Engineer

Referenced for his blog on optimizing CUDA matmul kernels

Investor participating in Telepatia's Series A round.

Fields Medal winner (1986) among signatories warning that AI solutions risk destroying the intellectual development process central to mathematical research.

Co-author of the technical analysis of the LiteLLM supply chain compromise.

Former CFO who became CEO to lead Groq as an independent company after the NVIDIA licensing deal.

Simon Edwardsson

Engineer

Independent Developer at V7

Indie developer who fine-tuned a 360M-parameter language model to act as a terminal with no underlying shell or filesystem.

Discussing data centre infrastructure optimization for low-latency AI system access.

Simon Guo

Researcher

Researcher at Thinking Machines Lab

Thinking Machines Lab researcher providing feedback on RL infrastructure analysis.

Co-author of the systematic review on AI in art therapy

Leading Iceotope's expansion in precision liquid cooling for AI infrastructure with $26M Series B funding.

Co-authored research arguing for pro-worker AI that augments rather than replaces workers.

Founder of Latent Labs with offices in King's Cross and San Francisco, bullish on London becoming a default place to start serious AI companies.

AI startup leader noting Kimi K3 performs well in coding and creates competitive pressure on leaders like Anthropic.

Simon Last

Engineer

Engineer at Notion

Working with Ivan Zhao on Notion AI product.

DrivingBench co-founder who assisted with LLM vehicle control experiment and software integration.

Discussed the fundamental scientific work needed for Project Triad quantum systems.

Simon Mo

Founder

CEO at Inferact

CEO of Inferact and one of vLLM's original creators; confirmed existing users include Amazon and shopping apps.

Simon Scrapes

Creator

Expert

Subject matter expert who identified 15 specific concepts for mastering Claude Code capabilities; media credit for article.

CEO of Tripo AI who demonstrated the company's 3D generation models and vibe coding tools at GDC.