Researchers in artificial intelligence and machine learning

Pieter Abbeel

Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley who directs the Robot Learning Lab, co-founded Gradescope and Covariant, and joined Amazon as a Scholar in 2024.

Pushmeet Kohli

Pushmeet Kohli is a computer scientist who is Chief Scientist of Google Cloud and VP of Research at Google DeepMind, leading its AI for Science unit.

Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Pushpak Bhattacharyya was an Indian computer scientist and professor at IIT Bombay known for natural language processing and IndoWordNet, who directed IIT Patna from 2015 to 2020.

Radhika Nagpal

Radhika Nagpal is a computer scientist who works on self-organizing robot collectives, created the Kilobot thousand-robot swarm, and has been a professor of engineering at Princeton University since 2022.

Raj Reddy

Raj Reddy (Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy), born 1937 in India, is an Indian-American computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who shared the 1994 Turing Award for pioneering large-scale artificial intelligence systems.

Rajiv Maheswaran

Rajiv Maheswaran is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Second Spectrum, the sports-analytics firm the NBA made its official tracking provider in 2017.

Ramalingam Chellappa

Ramalingam Chellappa, known as Rama Chellappa, is a computer vision researcher and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins, known for face and gait recognition and a National Academy of Engineering member.

Regina Barzilay

Regina Barzilay is a computer scientist and MIT professor who leads AI in medicine at the Jameel Clinic, known for the Mirai and Sybil cancer risk models.

Richard E. Korf

Richard E. Korf is an American computer scientist and UCLA professor emeritus whose 1985 IDA algorithm enabled memory-efficient heuristic search, yielding the first optimal Rubik's Cube solutions.

Richard Szeliski

Richard Szeliski is a computer vision researcher, now a Distinguished Scientist at Google DeepMind, known for panoramic image stitching, Photosynth, and his widely used textbook Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications.

Risto Miikkulainen

Risto Miikkulainen is a computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and VP of AI Research at Cognizant AI Lab, best known as co-inventor of the NEAT neuroevolution method.

Rob Fergus

Rob Fergus is a computer scientist and NYU professor known for spectral hashing and camera-shake removal, who co-founded Facebook AI Research and became its head in 2025.

Robert Schapire

Robert Schapire is an American computer scientist who invented boosting, the method of combining weak learners into one accurate rule, and with Yoav Freund created AdaBoost in 1995.

Roberto Cipolla

Roberto Cipolla, born 1963, is Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge, known for computer vision research, SegNet, and directing Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory.

Roger Shepard

Roger Shepard (Roger Newland Shepard, 1929 to 2022) was an American cognitive scientist at Stanford known for the mental rotation experiments founding mental imagery research.

Roman Yampolskiy

Roman Yampolskiy, born 1979 in Riga, Latvia, is a computer scientist at the University of Louisville known for coining "AI safety" and arguing superintelligent AI cannot be controlled.

Ronald J. Williams

Ronald J. Williams was an American computer scientist at Northeastern University who created the RTRL and REINFORCE algorithms and coauthored the landmark 1986 backpropagation paper in Nature.

Rosalind Picard

Rosalind W. Picard is an American scientist and engineer at the MIT Media Lab who founded affective computing in 1994 and co-founded Affectiva and Empatica.

Ross Girshick

Ross Girshick is a computer vision and machine learning researcher known for the R-CNN family and Mask R-CNN, and now a member of technical staff at Anthropic.

Rumman Chowdhury

Rumman Chowdhury is an American data scientist and AI ethics researcher who leads Humane Intelligence, a public AI red-teaming company, and was the first U.S. Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence.

Russell L. Tedrake

Russell L. Tedrake is a roboticist and MIT professor who directs CSAIL's Center for Robotics, created the Drake toolbox, and leads robotics research at the Toyota Research Institute.

Samuel Gershman

Samuel J. Gershman is a cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology and Brain Science at Harvard University, known for computational models of reinforcement learning, dopamine, and memory.

Sasha Luccioni

Sasha Luccioni is a Canadian-based computer scientist and Hugging Face's AI & Climate Lead, known for measuring the carbon footprint of large language models and named to TIME's 2024 AI list.

Sepp Hochreiter

Sepp Hochreiter (Josef Hochreiter) is a German computer scientist who identified the vanishing gradient problem in 1991, co-invented LSTM, and now leads machine learning research at JKU Linz.

Serge Belongie

Serge Belongie is a computer vision and machine learning researcher, professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for the shape context descriptor introduced in 2002.

Shih-Fu Chang

Shih-Fu Chang (张世富) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer known for computer vision and multimedia retrieval, Dean of Columbia Engineering since 2022 and a National Academy of Engineering member.

Shun'ichi Amari

Shun'ichi Amari is a Japanese mathematician who founded information geometry, treating families of probability distributions as curved spaces, and pioneered neural network theory with the natural gradient method.

Silvio Savarese

Silvio Savarese is an Italian computer scientist who serves as Chief Scientist of Salesforce AI Research and is an adjunct professor of computer science at Stanford University.

Simon Osindero

Simon Osindero is a machine learning researcher and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind, credited by the 2024 Nobel Committee for the 2006 deep learning pre-training breakthrough.