Researchers in artificial intelligence and machine learning

Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman, also known as Alexei "Lex" Fridman, is a Russian-American artificial-intelligence researcher at MIT who studies human-AI interaction in driving and hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, launched in 2018.

Lotfi A. Zadeh

Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921–2017), born Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh, was an Azerbaijani-born American computer scientist at UC Berkeley who founded fuzzy set theory in his 1965 paper "Fuzzy Sets."

Luke Zettlemoyer

Luke Zettlemoyer is a computer scientist working on natural language processing who is a professor at the University of Washington and a Senior Research Director at Meta FAIR.

Maithilee Kunda

Maithilee Kunda is an American cognitive scientist and AI researcher studying visual thinking in autism and neurodiversity, a reader at the University of Edinburgh and 2025 PECASE recipient.

Marc Pollefeys

Marc Pollefeys, born 1971, is a Belgian computer vision scientist, professor at ETH Zurich, and director of the Microsoft Spatial AI Lab in Zurich, known for camera self-calibration and leading the vision algorithms in Microsoft HoloLens.

Marcus Hutter

Marcus Hutter is a computer scientist and AI researcher at Google DeepMind in London, known for the AIXI model of optimal agents and the Hutter Prize for text compression.

Mark Davenport

Mark A. Davenport is an American electrical engineer and machine learning researcher, a professor at Georgia Tech who received the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE).

Mark Finlayson

Mark A. Finlayson is an American computer scientist at Florida International University who studies natural language processing and narrative, winning a Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.

Martial Hebert

Martial Hebert is a French-born computer vision and robotics researcher, Dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science since 2019, known for spin images for 3D object recognition.

Marvin Minsky

Marvin Lee Minsky (1927–2016) was an American computer scientist who co-founded the MIT AI Laboratory, built the first neural network learning machine, and won the 1970 Turing Award.

Marzyeh Ghassemi

Marzyeh Ghassemi is a computer scientist and MIT associate professor who works on machine learning for health, known for findings that clinical AI models encode demographics.

Michael I. Jordan

Michael I. Jordan, born in 1956, is an American machine learning and statistics researcher, a longtime UC Berkeley professor now working at Inria in Paris.

Michael J. Kearns

Michael J. Kearns is an American computer scientist at the University of Pennsylvania known for work in machine learning theory, algorithmic game theory, and algorithmic fairness.

Michael Julian Black

Michael Julian Black is a computer vision scientist known for optical flow and the SMPL 3D human body model, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Michael L. Littman

Michael L. Littman is a computer scientist at Brown University known for reinforcement learning, the minimax-Q algorithm, and service as Brown's first Associate Provost for AI since 2025.

Michael Wooldridge

Michael Wooldridge is a computer scientist at the University of Oxford, recognized as one of the founders of multi-agent systems research, who gave the 2023 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

Mohit Bansal

Mohit Bansal is a computer scientist and Parker Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill who works on natural language processing and multimodal AI, receiving the PECASE award in 2025.

Moshe Vardi

Moshe Vardi is a computer scientist at Rice University known for automated reasoning and model checking, the Feder–Vardi Dichotomy Conjecture, and honors including the Gödel and Knuth prizes.

Nicholas Carlini

Nicholas Carlini is an American computer security researcher at Anthropic, known for adversarial attacks on machine learning models and extracting training data from large language models.

Nick Frosst

Nick Frosst, also known as Nicholas Frosst, is a Canadian computer scientist who co-founded the AI company Cohere in 2019 and is lead vocalist of the band Good Kid.

Nitish Srivastava

Nitish Srivastava is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher who co-invented dropout, the neural network regularization technique, as lead author of the 2014 JMLR paper.

Noam Brown

Noam Brown is an AI research scientist at OpenAI who led Libratus and Pluribus, the first superhuman poker AIs, and co-developed CICERO, the first human-level Diplomacy AI.

Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Oluwasanmi (Sanmi) Koyejo is a computer scientist and neuroscientist who is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Oriol Vinyals

Oriol Vinyals is a Spanish machine learning researcher known for sequence-to-sequence learning and leading AlphaStar, and a former Google DeepMind VP who co-founded Discovery Loop in 2026.

Parisa Rashidi

Parisa Rashidi is an AI-in-healthcare researcher and full professor at the University of Florida, a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Patrick Winston

Patrick Henry Winston (1943–2019) was an American computer scientist who directed the MIT AI Laboratory for 25 years and wrote a widely used textbook on artificial intelligence.

Percy Liang

Percy Shuo Liang is an American computer scientist and Stanford professor working on machine learning and natural language processing, known for the CRFM and the HELM benchmark.

Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist, Director of Research at Google since 2005 and co-author with Stuart Russell of the leading AI textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.

Peter Szolovits

Peter Szolovits is an American computer scientist and MIT professor who heads the Clinical Decision-Making Group in CSAIL, applying artificial intelligence to medical decision making since 1974.