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- Sepp HochreiterGerman computer scientist who co-developed the long short-term memory (LSTM) network, a recurrent neural network design for learning from sequences such as text and speech. He led the xLSTM work in 2024.
- 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.
- Shane LeggShane Legg is a New Zealand AI researcher and co-founder of DeepMind, known for helping popularise the term "artificial general intelligence" and for leading the company's AGI safety work.
- Shun-ichi AmariShun-ichi Amari (born 1936) is a Japanese mathematical engineer who founded information geometry and built theoretical foundations for machine learning and neural networks; he received the 2025 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology.
- Sun JianSun Jian was a computer-vision scientist who spent 13 years at Microsoft, co-created ResNet, and later became chief scientist at Megvii. He died aged 45 after a sudden illness in June 2022.
- Tang XiaoouTang Xiaoou (1968–2023) was a Chinese computer vision researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and co-founder and chairman of SenseTime, one of China's best-known AI companies.
- Thomas WolfThomas Wolf is a co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, and the first author of the 2019 paper that introduced the company's open-source Transformers library to researchers and practitioners.
- Tomáš MikolovCzech computer scientist and lead author of word2vec, the 2013 methods that learn word vectors from text. His later work includes the fastText library and research on mathematical models that grow in complexity.
- 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.
- Yann LeCunYann LeCun is a French computer scientist known for convolutional neural networks, which learn to recognise images directly from pixels. He co-authored the 1998 paper that introduced LeNet-5 and shared the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
- Yoshua BengioCanadian computer scientist whose work on sequence models, word embeddings and attention helped lay foundations for modern language models. He shared the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.