People in AI

Author of "Harvard's decision quality research" in Harvard

Walter Goodwin

Founder

CEO & Founder, AI hardware at Fractile

Founded Fractile in 2022, a roboticist from University of Oxford designing AI inference chips.

Co-authored study on cognitive surrender and AI advice effects on human accuracy and confidence.

Schulze reported on Taiwan's plans to criminalize AI chip smuggling to China, treating the entire Chinese market as restricted territory.

Walter Witschey

Researcher

Associate Professor of Radiology at Penn Medicine

Senior author of Percival AI study; associate vice chair of Research IT; discussed how AI learns from imaging data.

Actor who plays The Ghoul character in Fallout TV show, whose scenes were misdescribed by Amazon's AI recap tool.

Listed as a team member associated with the NotebookLM project.

Listed as author of the StableToken research paper on speech tokenization

Listed as author of the paper on robust learning with noisy labels

Listed as co-author in the CUDA Agent citation for the research on agentic RL for CUDA kernel optimization

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

Stated that independent robot exploration could help machines develop fundamental understanding of the physical world beyond narrow task training.

MIIT official Wang Weiwei stated that AI's rise is redefining traditional software and presents a historic opportunity to reshape competitive landscape.

Author of research on LLMs discovering hidden physical laws

Using OpenClaw to start her own business as a 'one-person company' where the AI agent runs 24/7.

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

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Author of article on AI marketing stack tools for 2026.

Discussed Nvidia's role in controlling technology pace and market dynamics; noted company doesn't want to be an insurer but plays that role while industry matures.

Cartoonist from 1960s whose signature appears on ChatGPT-generated images.

CEO of Patch who noted the company now has nearly 1 million subscribers to AI-curated hyperlocal newsletters.

Wayne Liang

Founder

Co-founder at HeyGen

HeyGen co-founder who created an AI clone of himself to handle customer calls during paternity leave, which closed 132 deals while occasionally going rogue.

Co-author on consciousness-steering paper examining effects of safety training on model mind attribution capabilities.

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

Expressed concern about relying on preference cascades and status games as mechanisms for navigating AI risks.

Co-author of FSDP2 training tutorial on fully sharded data parallel for distributed model training.

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

Author of the paper on in-context vector arithmetic

Co-author of the Robix research paper

Lead author of the SocioHack research on large language models hacking reward functions and discovering regulatory loopholes.

Wei Ping

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper and leads the effort; correspondence contact.

Co-author of TradingAgents, an open-source multi-agent LLM financial trading framework.

Wei Wen

Researcher

Meta

Author of "Meta rolls out MobileLLM-R1, a sub-1B reasoning model matching Qwen3 accuracy us" in Meta

Byline author presenting LingBot-VLA 2.0 research on robot pretraining scaling to 60,000 hours.

Co-author on Helix World research from HKUST.

Co-founder of Momentic announcing new autonomous QA testing platform update with AI-native engineering capabilities.

Co-authored research on staged text-to-image generation.

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

Co-author on Helix World research.

Co-author on AARR benchmark research paper for evaluating frontier LLMs and agentic systems.

Co-authored research on Meta's Just-in-Time Testing system that uses LLMs to generate tests and catch bugs before code ships to production.

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

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

Weirui Ye contributed to research on Bidirectional Evolutionary Search for improving language model search and reasoning capabilities.

Author of "Red Teaming via Harmful RL" in Hugging Face

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

Eight-year Meta veteran who worked on multimodal perception systems and open-world segmentation including SAM3D, recently joined Thinking Machines Lab.

Co-author of paper on signal recovery methods using low-rank matrix optimization.

Author of "InternVL 3.5: Open Multimodal Reasoning Model" on arXiv

Reported on tech industry layoffs of 63,000 workers in June driven by AI automation and chip infrastructure investments.

Co-author of paper on malicious intermediary attacks on LLM supply chain.

Author of the research paper on Vision-Language-Action models for robotics

Fields Medal winner (2006) among prominent mathematicians expressing urgent concern about AI's misalignment with research and educational goals.

Analyst discussing China's hardware focus and attempt to own the entire robotics supply chain.

CEO of Teach For All partnering with Anthropic to bring AI training to educators in 63 countries through AI Literacy & Creator Collective.

Wendy Lee

Journalist

Entertainment reporter at Los Angeles Times

Reporter covering Google's outreach to Disney, Universal, and other studios about licensing entertainment IP for AI.

Wendy Sun is listed as a co-author of the black hole star study at MIT.

Co-author of the research study on digital transformation and knowledge worker retention in SMEs

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

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Co-researcher on MIT study analyzing AI automation across workplace tasks.

Wenting Zhao

Researcher

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

Wenxian Shi

Researcher

PhD Student at MIT CSAIL

Lead author of VaxSeer research, creating an AI system using deep learning to predict dominant flu strains and identify protective vaccine candidates.

Co-author of Moebius lightweight inpainting framework.

Co-author on the Continual Harness research study on ARC-AGI-3.

Davis reviewed Matic's new Cues update bringing voice and gesture control to its robot vacuum.

Founder of Maas Group leading $200M investment into Firmus Technologies AI factory business.

Wes Roth

Engineer

Focused on Pokémon demo showing vision-only play without grids, maps, or navigation systems in video walkthrough.

Commented on UK-Ukraine AI partnership combining UK scientists and engineers with Ukraine's battlefield experience and data.

Referenced in "Apple AI Team Loses Another Executive to Meta"

Wesley Stenzel

Creator

News Writer at Entertainment Weekly

Author of "Immortality With A Subscription Plan"

Co-founder at Arena graduating from Berkeley PhD program, works with researchers transitioning to CEO role.

Wil Reynolds

Creator

Founder and Co-CEO at Seer Interactive

Byline author sharing how Seer Interactive manages company AI skills via GitHub and uses feedback to improve AI performance.

First official World Chess Champion who reinvented chess strategy with positional chess in the late 1800s

Co-author of FSDP2 training tutorial on fully sharded data parallel for distributed model training.

Former OpenAI researcher who resigned in April, posted on X that AI leaders prioritize velocity over security.

Examines AI valuations, where expectations outrun reality, and who will capture value in the AI market.

Author of "AI-Driven Detection and Analysis of Handwriting on Seized Ivory: A Tool to Uncover Criminal Networks" in arXiv

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

Byline author discussing patterns for using AI agents to scaffold recurring tasks with hybrid deterministic and agentic workflows.

Will Manidis

Journalist

Founder at Cascade.bio

Author of "End Game Play"

Will Marshall

Executive

CEO at Starcloud

CEO of Starcloud stating it will be cheaper to put AI compute in space and partnering with Rendezvous Robotics.

Will Newton

Engineer

Principal Product Designer at Amplitude

Building Design Agent using Claude Managed Agents and Cloudflare for on-brand UI and marketing design.

Ramp CFO discussing importance of understanding AI spend and which use cases create value for companies.

Questioned whether government equity stakes could work in AI industry given high valuations and lack of dividends.

Contributed to the AI-Native SDLC playbook for Anthropic's Applied AI team.

Identified CyberStrikeAI as the tool used in FortiGate breach campaign and linked it to Chinese state-sponsored operations.

William Deresiewicz

Creator

Author of "Why AI Will Never Rival Human Creativity" in Persuasion

Author of Neuromancer (1984), referenced for conceptualizing C2-less malware with autonomous objectives

Co-authored report on state of the AI economy.

Co-author of research on fractal basins in reasoning models and transient chaos during problem solving.

Lawyer representing over 1,000 victims arguing they are entitled to recover the current Bitcoin value rather than original investment.

Inventor who received a patent for the coin-operated telephone in 1889 and formed a company to market the invention.

William Guss

Researcher

Research scientist at Project Prometheus

Former OpenAI research scientist and General Agents co-founder, joined Project Prometheus post-acquisition.

William Harvey is a researcher and co-author of VOID, Netflix's video object removal framework.

Historical example of an amateur scientist (composer/organist) who discovered Uranus

Co-author on the Many-Tier Instruction Hierarchy (ManyIH) research paper.

Co-founder of Sunrise climate movement who won Michigan Democratic primary as progressive candidate opposing data centers.

Author analyzing how AI metrics in coding tools like Windsurf and Cursor overestimate AI contributions to codebases.

Deputy Secretary of Defense who participated in the 1993 dinner with defense contractor CEOs

Contributed to the reporting of Daimler Truck's investor search for Torc Robotics

Co-founder of Oumi who worked on AI safety at Google.

Co-author on ActiveVision benchmark research paper.

Community member exploring AI tools for organizational friction tracking and NYC childcare desert analysis.

Winson Han

Researcher

Game Designer at Allen Institute for AI

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

Winston Cho

Journalist

Reporter at The Hollywood Reporter

Author of "Seven Million Books Later, Anthropic Makes Peace"

Co-author of first computer-assisted proof of four-color theorem using computational methods.

Warns that opt-in consent frameworks for facial recognition are insufficient protections against mass surveillance.

Woosuk Kwon

Engineer

Building vLLM at Inferact

Co-authored technical article on TPU megakernels achieving 700 TPS on Kimi K3 with speculative decoding.

Wout Schellaert

Researcher

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Investor who continued supporting General Intuition in its $320M Series A round.

Wouter van Doorn

Other

Mathematics Enthusiast at Customer Service Company

Fourth-most prolific commenter on Erdős problems website who collaborates with AI and professional mathematicians to solve problems.

Announced TSMC's plans to add two advanced chip packaging plants in southern Taiwan.

Listed as author of the StableToken research paper on speech tokenization

Listed as co-author in the CUDA Agent citation for the research on agentic RL for CUDA kernel optimization

Announced plans to establish regular mechanisms for identifying new occupations and formulating occupational standards in emerging AI and digital economy fields.

Byline author of paper on how visible incentives trigger reward-hacking in AI systems.

Stated that AI shortage of computing power will not significantly change before 2030 and company will recoup AI investment within 2-3 years.

Wujiang Xu

Researcher

Research Intern at Meta

Co-author of MemEye framework for evaluating multimodal agent long-term memory.

Author of "iMessage MCP: Give Your LLM Access to Your Messages"

Top red teamer on Gray Swan Arena who is recognized for insightful posts about LLMs and is described as a highly effective researcher in adversarial testing.

Co-authored article detailing Waymo's approach to world models for self-driving cars.

Contributed to study analyzing 8,135 trial records revealing skill-use modes in LLM agents.

Angel investor who participated in AMI Labs seed funding round.

xeophon

Researcher

Research Engineer

Conducted audit of Xeophon AutomationBench and OfficeQA Pro v2, finding and reporting issues with benchmark design.

Xi Victoria is a co-author on Meta FAIR's ThreadWeaver research on adaptive parallel reasoning for language models.

Xi Wang is the byline author of the Full-bandwidth transformer research paper published by Microsoft.

Robotera co-founder whose company deployed humanoid robots in China Post and SF Holding logistics centers.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Collaborating on heart failure risk project and leading clinician-in-the-loop multi-agent system for Alzheimer's diagnosis.

Co-founded NeoCognition with Yu Su to build specialized self-learning AI agents.

Xiang Hui

Researcher

Associate Professor of Marketing at Washington University's Olin Business School

Co-author of the arXiv paper on the economics of AGI

Author of "Meta's Agent Learning" on arXiv

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

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

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

Co-author on AARRI-Bench research for evaluating agentic systems in research tasks.

Co-authored AgenticPay, a multi-agent LLM negotiation system for buyer-seller transactions.

Co-developed the detachable robotic hand that can crawl, grasp objects, and reattach to its arm autonomously.

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

Author of "Humble Leaders Create Environments Where Employees Feel Empowered to Take Initiative"

Xiao Teng

Researcher

PhD Student at Queen's University Belfast

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

Donated OpenSandbox general-purpose sandbox platform to AAIF for agent execution.

Co-author of paper on signal recovery methods applicable to compressed sensing and NMR spectroscopy.

Co-authored technical post on Cohere's megakernel serving engine for North Mini Code.

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

Co-authored the Harrier embedding model technical paper.

Xiaolong Jin

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of the OpenClaw-RL paper on training agents through next-state signals and reinforcement learning.

Author of "Kunlun: Establishing Scaling Laws for Massive-Scale Recommendation Systems throu" on arXiv

Byline for article on Harvard and MIT's MatrAIx research building AI agents that simulate 8.3 billion user personas.

Deploying and optimizing Muse Glimmer for privacy-compliant local inference and benchmarking multi-step planning in healthcare; leading ClinAgent GBM project for glioblastoma analysis.

Co-author on Microsoft's O-Voxel and 3D generation research paper on structured latent representations for 3D asset generation.

Xiaoyan Bai

Researcher

Author of "Why Can't Transformers Learn Multiplication? Reverse-Engineering Reveals Long-Ra" on arXiv

Co-author of Role Anchor research on compound AI systems; quoted explaining how terminal accuracy hides role drift problems in LLM pipelines.

Author of "Kunlun: Establishing Scaling Laws for Massive-Scale Recommendation Systems throu" on arXiv

Xiaoyin Qu

Engineer

Former Senior Product Manager at Meta

Former Meta product manager who noted that AI companies spend billions only to have Chinese free models wipe out their margins.

Author of "Analyzing Visual Attention in VLMs" on arXiv

verl framework developer working on RL training infrastructure.

First author on GAMUT benchmark paper for evaluating factual completeness in long-form generation.

Xin Cheng authored a paper on Engram, a conditional memory module for large language models that uses hashed N-gram lookups.

Advisory committee member on Quantum's Infinite Game project with expertise in multimodal AI and language agents.

Co-author of scoping review on humanlike chatbots and relational safety in companion AI.

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

Author of TRACE quantization technique paper on Hugging Face

Xinchao Wang

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-authored research on Flex-Forcing for video diffusion models with flexible temporal and denoising-step chunking.

Xindi Wu

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA Research

Xindi Wu is a co-author of WorldTrace, a framework for keeping compressed memories accessible during long autoregressive video rollouts.

Lead author of Humanity's Sixth Sense benchmark paper evaluating intuitive visual reasoning in multimodal models.

Xingdi Yuan

Researcher

Researcher at Microsoft Research

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Xinggang Wang

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of Mixture-of-Depths Attention paper on improving large language model depth scaling.

Co-author of article arguing that AI tools intensify rather than reduce work.

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

Author of research on magnetically-powered millirobots for medical applications.

First author on Mage-Flow paper introducing efficient foundation model for image generation and editing.

Lead author of FinIndices benchmark evaluating LLM financial reasoning and structural bottlenecks in processing long financial statements.

Wrote article on Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model and its performance on cybersecurity benchmarks compared to OpenAI models.

Researcher from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University developing systems for optimal LLM tool selection.

Co-author of the SocioHack study on LLMs exploiting societal reward functions.

Co-authored research on Flex-Forcing, a framework enabling video diffusion models to switch between bidirectional and autoregressive generation.

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

Author of "OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents" in arXiv

Byline author of article on fine-tuning LLMs causing regurgitation of pretraining texts.

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Xiyang Hu

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Arizona State University

Author on paper about recognition-refusal misalignment in LLMs showing models encode structural unanswerability.

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

Listed as author of the DuPO paper on preference optimization

CEO discussing OSChina's MoArk platform competing with Alibaba's ModelScope as China's Hugging Face alternative.

Xuan-Phi Nguyen

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of research on bounding memory peaks in MoE training.

Xuanchi Ren

Researcher

research scientist at NVIDIA

Xuanchi Ren is a lead author of Gamma-World, a generative multi-agent world model for interactive simulation and video generation.

Xuandong Zhao

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Co-author of VIMPO paper on policy optimization methods for improving LLM mathematical reasoning.

Co-author of the AutoAdapt framework for automated LLM domain adaptation.

Acknowledged that AI safety capability currently lags model capability development and identified new risks like AI self-replication.

Chairs the national AI governance committee and signed IDAIS statements demanding binding frontier rules but has not seen demands adopted.

Xue Qingheng, founder of humanoid robotics startup Intercity Technology Co., used the half-marathon as a stress test for his company's improved humanoid model Xiao Cheng.

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

Led Carnegie Mellon team that developed Message Passing Language Models (MPLMs), an agentic framework enabling LLMs to divide problems into parallel sub-problems more efficiently.

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

Co-author of Multi-Stream LLMs research paper on unblocking language models with parallel streams.

Co-author of the Robix research paper

Co-author on ActiveVision benchmark research paper.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.