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Song Han
Song Han is an MIT associate professor and NVIDIA research director known for model compression; his Deep Compression paper shrank neural networks up to 49x with no accuracy loss.
Soumik Sarkar
Soumik Sarkar is an American-based AI and mechanical engineering researcher at Iowa State University, a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Stefano Ermon
Stefano Ermon is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, known for score-based and diffusion generative models and for the 2016 Science paper predicting poverty from satellite imagery.
Stefano Soatto
Stefano Soatto is an Italian-American computer vision and robotics researcher, a UCLA professor on leave who is a vice president and distinguished scientist in AWS's Agentic AI organization.
Steven J. Nowlan
Steven J. Nowlan is a machine-learning researcher in Geoffrey Hinton's connectionist circle, co-author of the 1991 "Adaptive Mixtures of Local Experts" paper, an early mixture-of-experts architecture.
Stuart J. Russell
Stuart J. Russell is a computer scientist at UC Berkeley who directs the Center for Human-Compatible AI and co-authored the standard AI textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.
Takeo Kanade
Takeo Kanade (金出武雄), born 1945, is a Japanese computer vision and robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, known for the Lucas–Kanade method and the 2016 Kyoto Prize.
Timnit Gebru (ትምኒት ገብሩ)
Timnit Gebru (ትምኒት ገብሩ), born 1983, is an Ethiopian-born American computer scientist and AI ethics researcher who founded DAIR and co-founded Black in AI after co-leading Google's Ethical AI team.
Tom M. Mitchell
Tom M. Mitchell is an American computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who founded the first university Machine Learning Department and wrote the textbook Machine Learning (1997).
Tomaso Poggio
Tomaso Poggio is an Italian-born computational neuroscientist and AI researcher at MIT, born in Genoa in 1947, known for work on vision, learning theory, and deep learning.
Tuomas Sandholm
Tuomas Sandholm is a Finnish-born computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University known for combinatorial auctions, optimizing the U.S. national kidney exchange, and the Libratus and Pluribus poker AIs.
Venkatesh R. Saligrama
Venkatesh R. Saligrama is an electrical engineer and IEEE Fellow who is a professor at Boston University and an Amazon Scholar in Amazon's AGI organization.
Vincent Conitzer
Vincent Conitzer is a computer scientist working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, game theory, and ethics, who received a PECASE award in 2011 while at Duke University.
Vladimir Vapnik
Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (Владимир Наумович Вапник), born 1936 in Tashkent, is a computer scientist who founded statistical learning theory, introduced the VC dimension, and co-invented the support vector machine.
William Edward Schuler
William Edward Schuler is an American computational linguist who won the 2005 PECASE for unified speech and language models and now chairs Linguistics at Ohio State University.
Wojciech Zaremba
Wojciech Zaremba is a Polish computer scientist and OpenAI cofounder who led its robotics team, built the Dactyl hand, and worked on Codex and Copilot.
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is a computer scientist who pioneered convolutional neural networks at Bell Labs and shared the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio.
Yannic Kilcher
Yannic Kilcher is a machine learning researcher and engineer known for a YouTube channel explaining AI research papers line by line, and co-founder and CTO of the Zurich legal-AI company DeepJudge.
Yee-Whye Teh
Yee-Whye Teh is a Professor of Statistical Machine Learning at Oxford and a DeepMind principal research scientist, co-author of the 2006 deep belief nets pre-training paper with Hinton.
Yoav Freund
Yoav Freund is a computer scientist and professor at UC San Diego who co-developed AdaBoost with Robert Schapire in 1995, winning the 2003 Gödel Prize.
Yun Raymond Fu
Yun Raymond Fu, who publishes as Yun Fu, is a computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston working on machine learning, computer vision, and representation learning, and founding director of the SMILE Lab.