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People who shaped AI. Public professional records only.
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- Kaiming HeKaiming He is a computer-vision and deep-learning researcher, first author of the 2015 ResNet paper that introduced residual connections, now a tenured associate professor at MIT.
- 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.
- Kevin ScottKevin Scott is Microsoft's chief technology officer, appointed on 24 January 2017 after engineering leadership roles at LinkedIn, Google and AdMob. In March 2024 Microsoft said he continued as CTO and EVP of AI, responsible for all-up AI strategy.
- Koray KavukcuogluKoray Kavukcuoglu is a DeepMind computer scientist who co-authored the first deep Q-network paper and later, as Google DeepMind's CTO and Google's chief AI architect, fronted successive Gemini model launches.
- 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.
- Liang WenfengLiang Wenfeng is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer and founded the AI company DeepSeek in 2023. He is the corresponding author of the DeepSeek-R1 paper published in Nature in 2025.
- Lilian WengLilian Weng is an AI researcher whose main public writing is her blog Lil'Log, which has carried her learning notes since 2017. Chinese-language coverage describes her as a Peking University alumna and reports on her years at OpenAI and her later moves.
- Lisa SuLisa Su is an electrical engineer who became AMD's president and chief executive officer in 2014 and chair of its board in 2022, serving during the company's push into AI accelerators.
- Liu QingfengLiu Qingfeng is the president and chairman of iFlytek, the company he founded in 1999 while a Ph.D. student at USTC. He unveiled the Spark large model in May 2023.
- Llion JonesLlion Jones is one of the eight authors of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need" and a co-founder and CTO of Sakana AI.
- 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.
- Mark ChenMark Chen is an OpenAI researcher who led the team behind DALL·E 2 and worked on Codex; in March 2025 he moved into an expanded Chief Research Officer role.
- Mark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook. He recruited the founding researchers of Facebook AI Research in 2013 and announced Meta Superintelligence Labs in 2025.
- Marvin MinskyMarvin Minsky (1927–2016) was an American scientist who co-founded MIT’s AI laboratory and co-signed the 1955 Dartmouth proposal. With Seymour Papert he wrote the 1969 book Perceptrons, which analysed the limits of simple neural networks.
- Mike KriegerMike Krieger, co-founder and CTO of Instagram, joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer on 15 May 2024, taking charge of product engineering, product management and product design.
- Mira MuratiAlbanian-American engineer who served as OpenAI's chief technology officer, briefly as its interim CEO in November 2023, and later founded and leads Thinking Machines Lab.
- Mustafa SuleymanMustafa Suleyman is a British AI entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind and Inflection AI, and in 2024 became chief executive of Microsoft AI, leading its Copilot and in-house model work.
- Nat FriedmanNat Friedman is a technology executive who led Xamarin as CEO, became CEO of GitHub after Microsoft acquired it, and later joined Meta to help lead Meta Superintelligence Labs.
- Nick FrosstCanadian machine-learning researcher who was one of Geoffrey Hinton's earliest hires at Google Brain's Toronto office, co-founded the natural language processing company Cohere in Toronto in 2019, and is lead vocalist of the indie rock band Good Kid.
- Niki ParmarNiki Parmar is one of the eight authors of "Attention Is All You Need", the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture, and is named in Google's own account of that work.