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- Jesse LevinsonJesse Levinson is a co-founder and chief technology officer of Zoox, the autonomous ride-hailing company acquired by Amazon, where he continued to lead after the deal.
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl is a computer scientist and statistician who invented Bayesian networks and their main inference algorithms, and later built a mathematical framework for causal inference from data. He received the 2011 ACM Turing Award.
- Karol HausmanKarol Hausman is a roboticist working on robot learning, sim-to-real transfer and embodied AI. He was a senior research scientist at Google Brain and Google DeepMind, is an adjunct professor at Stanford, and co-founded Physical Intelligence.
- Kyle VogtKyle Vogt is identified in General Motors' March 2016 announcement as the founder of Cruise Automation, the San Francisco startup GM acquired; the company he founded later ran driverless passenger service in San Francisco until California regulators suspended its permits in October 2023.
- Marc RaibertMarc Raibert (born 1949) is a robotics researcher who built the first self-balancing hopping robots, founded Boston Dynamics, and is now executive director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.
- Norbert WienerMathematician Norbert Wiener is widely considered the founder of cybernetics, the study of regulatory systems. His 1948 book Cybernetics treated feedback formally and framed control and communication as one problem for animals and machines.
- Patrick EsserPatrick Esser is a researcher on generative image and video models: a co-author of the latent diffusion paper that became the basis of Stable Diffusion, lead author of the Stable Diffusion 3 paper, and a 2024 co-founder of Black Forest Labs.
- Peng ZhihuiChinese engineer and technology communicator who worked on AI chips and algorithms at Huawei and co-founded the robotics company AgiBot, where he is president and chief technology officer.
- Pieter AbbeelPieter Abbeel is a UC Berkeley professor who directs the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and co-directs BAIR; his honors include the ACM Prize in Computing and IEEE Fellow status.
- Raj ReddyRaj Reddy is an Indian-born computer scientist who built the first system capable of continuous speech recognition and led major computing institutions at Carnegie Mellon University. He shared the 1994 ACM Turing Award with Ed Feigenbaum.
- Robin RombachFirst author of the latent diffusion paper that underlies Stable Diffusion, and later co-founder and CEO of Black Forest Labs, the company behind the FLUX image models.
- Rodney BrooksRodney Brooks (born 1954) is an Australian-born roboticist who promoted behaviour-based robotics and the subsumption architecture, directed MIT's AI Laboratory and CSAIL, and co-founded iRobot, Rethink Robotics and Robust.AI.
- Sergey LevineSergey Levine is a computer scientist who studies how robots can learn control behaviour from data. He is a professor at UC Berkeley and a co-founder of Physical Intelligence.
- Wang XingxingWang Xingxing (born 1990) is the founder and chief executive of Unitree, the robotics company behind the AlienGo and Go1 quadruped robots and the H1 humanoid robot.
- Wojciech ZarembaWojciech Zaremba is a Polish computer scientist who co-founded OpenAI in 2015. He later led teams working on GPT models, GitHub Copilot and Codex.
- Yu KaiYu Kai is chief executive and a co-founder of Horizon Robotics, the Chinese smart-driving supplier that listed in Hong Kong on 24 October 2024 under the code 9660.HK.
- Zhang BoZhang Bo (born 1935) is a scholar in automatic control and artificial intelligence. He studied and taught at Tsinghua University and helped found the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems.
- Zhang YaqinZhang Yaqin is an electrical engineer and technology executive who spent nearly 16 years at Microsoft, served as president of Baidu from 2014 to 2019, and joined Tsinghua University in 2019 as a chair professor of intelligent science.
- Zhou ZhihuaZhou Zhihua is a Chinese computer scientist at Nanjing University who works on ensemble learning, weakly supervised learning and multi-label learning. He founded the LAMDA institute there, serves as a university vice president, and was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2025.
- Ziv AviramZiv Aviram is a co-founder of Mobileye, the company he helped build from its founding in 1999 through its 2014 New York Stock Exchange listing and its 2017 acquisition by Intel.