Researchers in artificial intelligence and machine learning

Alex Krizhevsky

Alex Krizhevsky is a machine learning scientist, born in Ukraine and raised in Canada, whose 2012 AlexNet network started the deep learning boom in computer vision.

Allen Newell

Allen Newell (1927–1992) was an American computer scientist and cognitive psychologist who, with Herbert Simon, created the first AI programs and won the 1975 Turing Award.

Anca Dragan

Anca Dragan is a computer scientist and roboticist, associate professor at UC Berkeley heading the InterACT lab and Director of AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind since 2024.

Andreas Geiger

Andreas Geiger is a German computer scientist and professor at the University of Tübingen, known as creator of the KITTI benchmark for testing self-driving perception algorithms.

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Anil K. Jain

Anil K. Jain is an American computer scientist at Michigan State University known for pattern recognition and biometrics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Anima Anandkumar

Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar is a computer scientist and Bren Professor of Computing at Caltech since 2017, formerly at AWS and NVIDIA, known for tensor methods and neural operators.

Apolinário Passos

Apolinário Passos is a Brazilian machine learning researcher and engineer at Hugging Face in Barcelona, co-author of LCM-LoRA and LEDITS++, methods for faster and text-editable image generation.

Ayanna Howard

Ayanna Howard is an American roboticist known for fuzzy-logic Mars rover navigation at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, assistive robotics, and her 2026 appointment as president of Spelman College.

Bei Wang Phillips

Bei Wang Phillips, who publishes as Bei Wang, is a computer scientist at the University of Utah working in topological data analysis, visualization, and computational topology.

Ben Goertzel

Ben Goertzel is an AI researcher and entrepreneur who coined the term "Artificial General Intelligence" in his 2005 book, founded the OpenCog project in 2008, and now leads SingularityNET.

Benjamin C. K. Tee

Benjamin C. K. Tee (Tee Chee Keong) is a Singapore-based materials scientist and professor at the National University of Singapore known for self-healing electronic skin sensors.

Benjamin Recht

Benjamin Recht is an American professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, working across optimization, machine learning, and control theory, and a 2012 PECASE recipient.

Bernard Widrow

Bernard Widrow (1929–2025) was an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor who developed the LMS algorithm and built ADALINE and MADALINE, among the earliest learning neural networks.

Bernt Schiele (born 1968) is a computer vision and machine learning researcher who has directed the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken since 2010 and is known for the Cityscapes dataset.

Bruce G. Buchanan

Bruce G. Buchanan is an American computer scientist known for pioneering rule-based expert systems and machine learning through the DENDRAL and MYCIN projects at Stanford.

Charles Lee Isbell, Jr.

Charles Lee Isbell, Jr. is an American computer scientist in interactive AI who served as dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing and became Chancellor of the University of Illinois in 2025.

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Christopher D. Manning

Christopher D. Manning is a Stanford professor of machine learning, linguistics, and computer science, a founder of statistical NLP known for CoreNLP, GloVe, Universal Dependencies, and influential textbooks.

Christopher M. Bishop

Christopher M. Bishop is a Microsoft Technical Fellow who led Microsoft Research Cambridge and wrote Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, the first Bayesian text on pattern recognition.

Chunhua Shen

Chunhua Shen (沈春华) is a Chinese computer vision researcher known for semantic segmentation and object detection, who joined Zhejiang University as a Chair Professor in 2022.

Cordelia Schmid

Cordelia Schmid, born 1967 in Mainz, is a German computer scientist and research director at Inria Grenoble known for her work on image features and video recognition.

Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Breazeal is a roboticist and MIT professor who pioneered social robotics with the expressive robot Kismet and co-founded the consumer robot company Jibo, Inc.

Daniela L. Rus

Daniela L. Rus is a Romanian-born roboticist, MIT professor, and director of CSAIL, the first woman to lead the lab, known for soft and self-reconfiguring robots.

Daniela Rus

Daniela Rus is a roboticist and computer scientist who directs MIT's CSAIL, holds the Viterbi Professorship there, and is known for self-reconfiguring robots, soft robotics, and liquid neural networks.

Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller (דפנה קולר) is a computer scientist in machine learning who co-founded Coursera, taught at Stanford for 18 years, and founded the drug discovery company insitro.

David Rumelhart

David Rumelhart (1942–2011) was an American cognitive psychologist who, with Geoffrey Hinton and Ronald Williams, published the 1986 back-propagation paper that became the training method for deep learning.

Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded DeepMind, sold it to Google in 2014, and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Dhruv Batra

Dhruv Batra is a computer scientist working in computer vision and embodied AI, formerly a Georgia Tech professor and Meta FAIR Embodied AI leader, now co-founder of Yutori.

Dileep George

Dileep George is an AI researcher who co-founded Numenta and Vicarious, created the Recursive Cortical Network vision model that broke text CAPTCHAs, and now leads AI at the Astera Institute.

Dimitri Bertsekas

Dimitri Bertsekas (1942–2026) was a researcher in optimization, dynamic programming, and reinforcement learning, a longtime MIT professor who moved to Arizona State University in 2019 and wrote more than 20 influential textbooks.