People in AI

Tuomas Haarnoja

Founder

Co-founder at Eka Robotics

Former Google DeepMind researcher co-founding Eka Robotics to advance reinforcement learning for robot control at scale.

Co-author of OckBench research on LLM efficiency benchmarking.

Discussed how combining evidence-based data with clear frameworks creates lasting thought leadership authority.

Podcast host interviewing Kirti Sharma about enterprise content marketing in the age of AI.

Tyler Austin Harper

Journalist

The Atlantic

Quoted articulating the critique that LLMs are 'impressive probability gadgets' that lack true understanding

Tyler Brown

Other

Conference Attendee

Posted on X about autonomy without structure creating slop, advocating re-visiting skills with new models.

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

Tyler Chen

Founder

CEO at Subtle

CEO of Subtle who demonstrated the Voicebuds at CES, which use AI to transcribe whispered speech and filter noisy environments.

Tyler Denk

Executive

Chief Executive Officer at beehiiv

CEO of newsletter platform Beehiiv who automated his newsletter workflow using Claude, reducing weekly management time from 4+ hours to minutes.

Co-founder of Resect AI managing operations and business execution.

Journalist who reported on the class action lawsuit against Anthropic over misleading Claude usage limit advertising.

Tyler Griggs

Researcher

Researcher at Mercor Research

Contributor to frontier knowledge work agents training project.

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

Led the $21M Series A funding round for Halcyon and joined the company's board of directors.

Tyler Romero

Creator

Microsoft

Authored a technical post explaining policy gradients for language models and REINFORCE algorithms from scratch.

Associate professor of radiation medicine and radiation oncologist who explained the clinical significance of identifying the urethra during prostate cancer treatment.

Warned that the AI boom presents a great opportunity for fraud, drawing parallels to the Theranos scandal and emphasizing difficulty of due diligence on AI companies.

Byline co-author on xAI challenging California AI training data transparency law.

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

Tyson Chen

Founder

Founder and Co-CEO at Avoca AI

Co-founder of Avoca describing the company's mission to bring AI to service businesses and operational infrastructure.

Tyson Singer authored the post about Spotify's Xirp agentic development environment.

Co-led development of HOBIT bioelectronics system for implanted cell therapy.

Co-author on Hakken paper about predicting scientific discoveries using knowledge graphs and LLMs.

Uchi Uchibeke

Researcher

Researcher

Lead author of APort Vault benchmark paper on payment authorization in AI agents.

Leads OpenAI's data center team as part of the company's infrastructure organization.

South Korean physician running Watson for Oncology program who advocates for early AI adoption in medicine.

Co-author of study on LLM gender bias in hiring across five major models including Claude, GPT-4, and others.

Ulf Aslak

Researcher

Author of "LLMs Reproduce Human Purchase Intent via Semantic Similarity Elicitation of Like" on arXiv

CEO of Italian AI company Domyn attending the G7 summit working lunch.

Research specialist discussing multi-agent AI framework for automating atomistic simulations at Argonne National Laboratory.

Umang Bhatt

Researcher

Assistant Professor in Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence at University of Cambridge

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Umesh Kumar

Founder

CEO at Runable

Co-founder and CEO of Runable, an Indian AI startup that raised $21 million Series A funding to develop AI agents for customer acquisition and business growth.

Executive search firm leader who noted that AI job replacement is welcomed by investors while difficult for workers.

First author on GLiGuard paper for schema-conditioned LLM content moderation.

Co-authored Microsoft Defender Security Research paper demonstrating how prompt injection can lead to remote code execution in Semantic Kernel.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Creator

Author

Referenced as an example of a writer whose Earthsea Cycle is profound despite being written for young readers

Her classic novel 'A Wizard of Earthsea' is referenced as an example text that language models can summarize

Ursula Llabres

Executive

SVP Customer Success & Support at Content Square

Participated in panel discussion on deprecating NPS in favor of transaction-level signals like CSAT and CES for measuring customer satisfaction.

Ursula Soritsch-Renier, CDO at Saint-Gobain, discussed how the company embraces technology to cut waste and reduce energy use, including the cut-to-order plaster board system that improved time-to-installation by 30%.

Meta's head of global energy discussing the company's electricity trading strategy and power plant expansion needs.

Usama Bin Shafqat

Engineer

AI Engineer at Google

Co-author of Google's NotebookLM update announcement describing agentic chat capabilities and research improvements.

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

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

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

Author of analysis on routers as a new AI primitive in the stack for managing model selection and complexity.

Vaibhav Sisinty provided a breakdown of specific tasks for Grok Bot among the first widely shared reactions within hours of the August 11 launch.

Vaibhav Srivastav

Journalist

Developer Experience @ OpenAI at OpenAI

Reported that GPT-5.6 Sol Max achieves better performance per dollar than Fable 5 Max on DeepSWE after recent pricing cut.

Said Tesla is in 'a big investment cycle' with spending expected to increase further over next three years.

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

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

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

Reported on CrowdStrike's SafeMind autonomous red teaming system using paired AI agents.

Valerie Chapman

Creator

Founder & CEO at Ruth

Author of "Gen Z Is Wielding AI Better Than You"

Valerie Chen

Researcher

Researcher

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

Valerio Capraro

Researcher

Associate Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca

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

Author of case study on Duolingo's AI-powered language learning revolution with GPT-4 integration.

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

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

Vance Whitaker

Researcher

Professor at University of Florida

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

Director of communications and policy expressing concern about AI Overviews for health queries, calling the removal 'excellent news' but noting it doesn't address the broader issue.

Author of "UK Has Lost Its Measles Elimination Status" in Sky News

Creator of viral video 'Nobody Actually Wants AI Anymore' criticizing forced AI adoption and its negative impacts on jobs and society.

Pioneer of hypermedia and information management concepts that influenced the author's thinking about web browsers and information interaction.

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

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

Varun Anand

Creator

co-founder and head of operations at Clay

Shared an AI Writing Policy at Clay that was written by Sophie Alpert and expanded company-wide, covering four guiding principles for using AI in writing.

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

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

Framed Anthropic's intent to make memory feel like a controlled workspace rather than hidden functionality.

NVIDIA researcher who contributed to development of Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety multimodal safety model.

Varundeep Kaur

Creator

Author

Author of the article on systems thinking in AI

Author of "Systems Thinking Helps Anticipate Ripple Effects and Avoid Unintended Consequences"

Novartis CEO joined Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, signaling pharma sector engagement with AI for biology.

Mohan wrote about SambaNova's disaggregated inference architecture demonstration at Computex.

Vasek Mlejnsky

Founder

Co-founder at E2B

Co-founder of E2B announcing E2B Embed, a sandboxing solution for agents that runs in customer environments.

Leads product and technology at Graphwise, presenting on semantic data infrastructure for agentic systems with 15+ years of software development experience.

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

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

Wrote article saying Caine Prize winner seemed to be AI-generated using AI-detection software Pangram; argued tool assessments are rarely wrong.

Veeral Patel

Executive

Executive at Ramp

Announced Ramp Router, an AI model routing system that cuts LLM spend by 30%.

Velchamy Sankarlingam

Executive

President of Product and Engineering at Zoom

Announced the launch of AI Companion 3.0, describing it as a turning point for Zoom's transformation into a pioneer of AI-first intelligent work orchestration.

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

Former OpenAI CTO now leading Thinking Machines startup set to operate with a full gigawatt of Nvidia compute starting early next year.

Author of "Google Released EmbeddingGemma" in Hugging Face

Verena Rieser

Researcher

Research Lead at Google DeepMind

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

SAP's new APAC chief discussing Southeast Asia's hunger for innovation and leapfrogging into AI-native systems.

Author of "Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement" in IGN

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

Veronica Rivera

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Privacy

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

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

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

Commented on Alibaba's AI spending and positioning for growth in cloud computing and AI models.

Managing Director at Citi Ventures, an investor in Quantifind's $200M growth round.

Reuters byline author covering the discovery of autonomous AI-driven hacking campaign.

Victor Ciura

Engineer

Principal Engineer on the Rust tooling team in Microsoft DevDiv at Microsoft

Guest author on Rust becoming tier-1 language at Microsoft.

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

Author of LangChain article explaining LangSmith Connections system for managing credentials in Managed Deep Agents.

Victor Nunez

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

Raced Terra against Sol to demonstrate Terra's computer use capabilities by having each model fill out a long web form.

Victor Ojewale

Researcher

Ph.D. Candidate at Brown University

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

Described Fable 5 as his 'personal singularity moment' after using it on HVM5 interaction-net evaluator project, achieving 1770% speedup on one benchmark.

Author of "Xcode 26 Beta 7 Adds Support For Claude Sonnet And ChatGPT 5" in Victor Wynne

Co-author from University of Waterloo contributing to OpenCUA framework

First person in the U.S. to receive CRISPR treatment for sickle cell anemia in 2019

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

Victoria Slocum

Creator

NetBird

Summarized MUVERA research on multi-vector retrieval compression, discussing memory reduction and infrastructure cost implications.

Author analyzing how tech companies are redefining recording with AI hardware that captures but does not save raw video or audio.

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

Google product manager who presented on Universal Cart shopping feature and Shopping Graph at Google I/O 2026.

Vidya Rajagopalan detailed Rivian's third generation autonomy compute platform and the Rivian Autonomy Processor (RAP1), a proprietary silicon chip.

Vidya Srinivas

Researcher

Technology Credit Union

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

Co-author of the Language Self-Play research paper

Co-authored Atlantic commentary arguing medicine should test autonomous AI doctors rather than relegating AI to supporting role.

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

Provided analysis and quoted on AI hiring surge at Wall Street banks, agent orchestration skills.

Founder of Moondream joining Prime Intellect to lead inference scaling and multimodal model development.

CEO of Mixhalo, discussed how voice AI models and competition drove the acquisition decision by DeepL.

Vikas Kansal

Executive

Product Lead for Gemini AI Subscriptions at Google

Announced Google's price cut for Google AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 monthly and doubled storage, signaling intensifying competition in AI subscription pricing.

Developed Parakeet Redux, compressing NVIDIA's speech model from 1.2GB to 178MB while achieving 113x realtime performance on CPU.

Author of DECOMPBENCH paper testing agent safety against decomposition attacks.

Vikrant Varma

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

EU judges ruled Hungary has infringed freedom of expression under his government.

Author of "Good Judgment Project" in Good Judgment Project

Author discussing the $7 Doritos problem and its parallels to AI pricing challenges and business model sustainability.

Vinay Perneti is VP of Engineering at Augment Code and co-authored the article on how AI agents are transforming software engineering hiring and practices.

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

Vinay Ramasesh

Researcher

Anthropic

Thanked for work on quantum circuits research

U.S. District Judge who ruled on Meta's Llama training case, finding it highly transformative but expressing concerns about fair use.

Shared AI-generated images of Maduro's capture on social media that were later confirmed to be manipulated.

Announced AI @ Morgan Stanley Debrief tool and praised its impact on Financial Advisor efficiency.

Author of "Honey Mushroom Fungus"

Vincent Bérubé

Executive

Senior Partner at McKinsey

Co-authored research on the critical role of strategic workforce planning in the age of AI and how gen AI has increased uncertainty about workforce skills.

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

Vincent Koc

Engineer

Chief Architect at The OpenClaw Foundation

Expressed support for deploying agents like OpenClaw securely into Windows ecosystem with RTX Spark.

OpenAI privacy engineer who was deposed in copyright litigation and inadvertently revealed OpenAI's ability to search ChatGPT logs.

Describes the shift of AI from data centers into the physical world and deterministic inference requirements.

Vincent Sunn Chen

Engineer

Researcher at Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI researcher who noted that score revisions are routine before product launches as checkpoints and configurations shift.

Author arguing AGI is an engineering problem requiring systems orchestration rather than just model scaling.

Co-authored BCG study on AI ROI and value generation.

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

Vineeth Dorna

Researcher

MTS at Datology

Author of "The BeyondWeb Paper" on arXiv

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Senior director at Nebius analyzing NVIDIA's acquisition of Groq and the inference era shift in AI infrastructure.

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

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

Vipul Ved

Executive

Co-founder & CEO at Together AI

Co-founder discussing GPU cluster partnership with YC to reduce compute friction for startups.

Co-author of Google Blog article on Gemini Notebook's new creative control features for slides and videos.

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

Author of DECOMPBENCH paper testing agent safety against decomposition attacks.

Quoted on the experience of beginning a novel and feeling the work exists beyond words

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

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

Authored blog post on A2UI Express, a new inference format for faster generative UI experiences.

Vishal Patel

Researcher

Clinical Fellow in Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital

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

Vishal Sikka

Researcher

Chief Executive Officer at Hang Ten Systems

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

Explained the four pillars of FedEx's digital transformation execution engine including business process reinvention, technology modernization, AI scaling, and talent building.

Co-author of Generative UI research on dynamically creating immersive visual experiences.

Vishnu Sivaji

Engineer

Writer at Google

Google employee who authored the announcement of new Gemini tools for small business owners.

Author of "Nvidia Might Not Like This One, Like at All"

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

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

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

Byline author of article describing DOGE's SweetREX AI tool used to scan housing regulations and recommend rescissions.

Vittorio Romeo

Engineer

Software Engineer

Created Open Hexagon, a free open-source PC version inspired by Super Hexagon game before the original came to PC.

Discussed how Chinese open-weight models are growing in popularity globally as free alternatives to U.S. frontier models.

Quoted endorsing Cohere's Command A+ model and its mixture-of-experts architecture for Fujitsu's sovereign AI solutions.

Criticized the DOJ's copyright brief arguing that enforcing copyright laws is too cumbersome and would threaten U.S. AI dominance.

Called for public insight into Department of Defense use constraints on AI technology.

Author of "Claude Code" in Every

Highlighted parasitic relationship between chatbot ecosystem and newsgathering, risking system collapse.

Vlad Ionescu

Founder

Co-founder and CTO at RunSybil

Co-founder and CTO of RunSybil who validated Big Sleep as a legitimate AI bug-hunting project

Co-authored announcement of Build, Roblox's AI-powered mobile-first creation tool for game developers.

Co-founded AI startup Harmonic, which raised $120 million at $1.45 billion valuation to develop AI systems focused on mathematical reasoning and eliminating hallucinations.

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

GitHub CTO discussing the Copilot harness for building agents that reason, use tools, and complete complex tasks.

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

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

Historical figure referenced in Kuryokhin's hoax to illustrate how false claims can convince large populations.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Vladimir Nesov

Researcher

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

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

Vladimir Popescu

Journalist

Crypto & Financial Content Editor & Writer at Watcher Guru

Byline author analyzing Micron's trillion-dollar market cap milestone and AI-driven memory demand surge.

Sharing perspectives on infrastructure optimization for AI workloads and compute demands.

Vladimir Vuskovic

Engineer

Director Product Management at Google Cloud

Co-author announcing AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms.

Vladislav Tankov

Executive

Director of AI at JetBrains

Director of AI at JetBrains who commented on integration of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite improving responsiveness of IDE AI assistant and Junie agent.

Warned that advanced AI could pose an existential risk to humanity and that a few men hold almost unlimited power over AI.

Co-founder of legal AI platform stating company's code is nearly 100% AI-generated and predicting 80-90% of tasks will be fully autonomous within a year.

Stated that becoming the first homegrown company in the U.K. to receive a launch operator license is a testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone at Skyrora.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Politician

President at Ukraine

Signed landmark AI Partnership agreement with UK allowing access to Ukraine's Avengers AI Labs battlefield data platform.

Created the Telegram extension for Gemini CLI

Wade Foster

Executive

CEO at Zapier

Author of "How Zapier CEO Saves Time With AI"

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

Wai Hon Law

Engineer

Google

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

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

Waleed Akbar

Researcher

R&D at Apple at Apple

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

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

Deputy Secretary of the Treasury quoted on Treasury's commitment to using AI for fraud detection and payment integrity.

Arrested in March for allegedly funneling $2.5 billion in restricted AI servers to China since 2024.

Co-founder of The Software Toolworks.

Former Wall Street Journal columnist who chronicled Apple and stated the company 'basically blew a five-year lead' with Siri.

Discussed scaling ARMS' proven operational intelligence software capabilities for complex warehouse environments.