THE METIS LIST

THE WORLD'S TOP AI RESEARCHERS

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1

Ilya Sutskever

SSI

CITATIONS: 663,198

UNDERGRAD: University of Toronto

PHD: University of Toronto

PREVIOUS COMPANY: OpenAI

DWARKESH APPEARANCE: YES

NEURIPS/ICLR/ICML: YES

INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: AlexNet, Seq2seq, Deep Learning

2

Noam Shazeer

Google Deepmind

CITATIONS: 262,612

UNDERGRAD: Duke University

PHD: NONE

PREVIOUS COMPANY: Character AI

DWARKESH APPEARANCE: YES

NEURIPS/ICLR/ICML: YES

INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Attention is All You Need, MoE, Character.AI

3

Geoffrey Hinton

University of Toronto

CITATIONS: 937,866

UNDERGRAD: University of Cambridge

PHD: University of Edinburgh

PREVIOUS COMPANY: Google

DWARKESH APPEARANCE: NO

NEURIPS/ICLR/ICML: YES

INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Backprop, Boltzmann Machine, Deep Learning

• 4

  Thinking Machines

  Alec Radford

  

  Undergrad: Olin College

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 254,381

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: GANs, GPT, CLIP

• 5

  MIT

  Kaiming He

  

  Undergrad: Tsinghua University

  PhD: Tsinghua University

  Previous Company: FAIR

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 719,858

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: ResNet, Computer Vision

• 6

  Government Code and Cypher School

  Alan Turing

  

  Undergrad: King's College, Cambridge

  PhD: Princeton University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: No

  Citations: 74,916

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Turing Test

• 7

  Thinking Machines

  John Schulman

  

  Undergrad: Caltech

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: Anthropic

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 128,677

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reinforcement Learning

• 8

  Technical University of Munich

  Jurgen Schmidhuber

  

  Undergrad: Technical University of Munich

  PhD: Technical University of Munich

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 285,892

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: LSTMs, Deep Learning

• 9

  Google Deepmind

  Jeff Dean

  

  Undergrad: University of Minnesota

  PhD: University of Washington

  Previous Company: Google

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 355,937

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow

• 10

  Google

  Quoc V. Le

  

  Undergrad: Australian National University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 349,370

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Seq2seq, Doc2Vec, CoT, Scaling

• 11

  Anthropic

  Jared Kaplan

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: Harvard University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 100,989

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Scaling Laws, Constutional AI, Interpretability

• 12

  Meta

  Yann LeCun

  

  Undergrad: ESIEE Paris

  PhD: Pierre and Marie Curie University

  Previous Company: YLC Consulting LLC

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 415,169

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: CNN, Computer Vision, Open-Source

• 13

  Anthropic

  Chris Olah

  

  Undergrad: NONE

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 93,822

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Mechanistic Interpretability

• 14

  Google Deepmind

  David Silver

  

  Undergrad: Christ's College, Cambridge

  PhD: University of Alberta

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 252,054

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: AlphaGo, Deep-Q, RL

• 15

  University of California

  Sergey Levine

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 188,972

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reinforcement Learning, TRPO, SAC

• 16

  Meta

  Jason Wei

  

  Undergrad: Dartmouth College

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 76,990

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: CoT prompting, Benchmarks

• 17

  Anthropic

  Diederik P. Kingma

  

  Undergrad: Utrecht University

  PhD: University of Amsterdam

  Previous Company: Google Deepmind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 313,576

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: VAEs, Adam Optimizer

• 18

  LawZero

  Yoshua Bengio

  

  Undergrad: McGill University

  PhD: McGill University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 954,235

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Deep Learning, Boltzmann Machines

• 19

  World Labs

  Fei-Fei Li

  

  Undergrad: Princeton University

  PhD: Caltech

  Previous Company: Stanford University

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 307,918

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: ImageNet, Stanford Human-Centered AI Institut

• 20

  Meta

  Shengjia Zhao

  

  Undergrad: Tsinghua University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 23,245

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: VAEs, Reasoning, Base Models

• 21

  Google Deepmind

  Shane Legg

  

  Undergrad: University of Waikato

  PhD: University of Lugano

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 55,427

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: DeepMind, AGI, Safety

• 22

  Google Deepmind

  Ian Goodfellow

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: Université de Montréal

  Previous Company: Apple

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 367,180

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: GANs, Adversarial ML

• 23

  Eureka Labs

  Andrej Karpathy

  

  Undergrad: University of Toronto

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 74,068

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Computer Vision, cs231n, Tesla Autopilot

• 24

  Thinking Machines

  Barret Zoph

  

  Undergrad: USC

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 95,925

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: NAS‑RL, Scaling MoE

• 25

  OpenAI

  Mark Chen

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: Integral Technology LLC

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 104,996

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Codex, Multimodal

• 26

  Thinking Machines

  Devendra Singh Chaplot

  

  Undergrad: IIT

  PhD: Carnegie Mellon University

  Previous Company: Mistral

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 16,707

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Multimodal, Embodied Systems

• 27

  DeepSeek

  Zhihong Shao

  

  Undergrad: Tsinghua University

  PhD: Tsinghua University

  Previous Company: Microsoft

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 8,935

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reinforcement Learning, MoE, DeepSeek

• 28

  Anthropic

  Jan Leike

  

  Undergrad: ?

  PhD: Australian National University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 48,952

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Alignment, RLHF, Reward Modeling

• 29

  Thinking Machines

  Alexander Kirillov

  

  Undergrad: Lomonosov Moscow State University

  PhD: Heidelberg University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 51,203

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Segment Anything Models

• 30

  Anthropic

  ethan perez

  

  Undergrad: Rice University

  PhD: New York University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 22,503

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Safety, Alignment, Red-Teaming

• 31

  Anthropic

  Tom Brown

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 90,707

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: GPT-3, Scaling Laws, RLHF

• 32

  Google Deepmind

  Neel Nanda

  

  Undergrad: University of Cambridge

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: Anthropic

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 7,818

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Mechanistic Interpretability

• 33

  Together.AI

  Tri Dao

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 16,440

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: FlashAttention, State-Space Models, Mamba

• 34

  Meta

  Hongyu Ren

  

  Undergrad: Peking University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: Apple

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 18,553

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reasoning, RL, Post-Training

• 35

  CAIS

  Dan Hendrycks

  

  Undergrad: UChicago

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: Gray Swan AI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 46,190

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: GELU, Robustness, MMLU

• 36

  OpenAI

  Lukasz Kaiser

  

  Undergrad: University of Wroclaw

  PhD: RWTH Aachen University

  Previous Company: Google

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 294,480

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Transformers, Context

• 37

  Anthropic

  Jeffrew Wu

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 130,831

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Scalable Oversight, Latent Interpretability, CoT

• 38

  OpenAI

  Alexander Wei

  

  Undergrad: Harvard University

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: Meta

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 2,919

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reasoning, IMO, Safety

• 39

  OpenAI

  Prafulla Dhariwal

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 134,926

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Multimodal, Diffusion, PPO

• 40

  Google Deepmind

  Alex Graves

  

  Undergrad: University of Edinburgh

  PhD: Technical University of Munich

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 164,264

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: LSTMs, RNNs, Deep Learning

• 41

  NIO

  Shaoqing Ren

  

  Undergrad: University of Science and Technology of China

  PhD: University of Science and Technology of China

  Previous Company: Momenta.ai

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 436,027

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: ResNet, Faster R-CNN, Autonomous Driving

• 42

  Thinking Machines

  Lilian Weng

  

  Undergrad: Peking University

  PhD: Indiana University Bloomington

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 27,015

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Safety, Adversarial Robustness

• 43

  Carnegie Mellon University

  zico kolter

  

  Undergrad: Georgetown University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 49,941

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Robustness, Safety

• 44

  Meta

  Lucas Beyer

  

  Undergrad: RWTH Aachen University

  PhD: RWTH Aachen University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 89,307

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Vision Transformers, Multimodal

• 45

  Thinking Machines

  Naman Goyal

  

  Undergrad: Savitribai Phule Pune University

  PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology

  Previous Company: FAIR

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 123,679

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Multimodal, Graph Neural Nets

• 46

  xAI

  Eric Zelikman

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: Microsoft

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 3,293

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reasoning, Alignment

• 47

  Anthropic

  James Bradbury

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: Google

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 88,510

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: PaLI, Optimization, Architecture Search

• 48

  Cartesia AI

  Albert Gu

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 14,190

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Mamba, State Space Models

• 49

  OpenAI

  Noam Brown

  

  Undergrad: Rutgers University

  PhD: Carnegie Mellon University

  Previous Company: Meta

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 5,522

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: RL, Game Theory, Reasoning

• 50

  Physical Intelligence

  Chelsea Finn

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: Google DeepMind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 85,360

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Robotics, Meta-Learning, Computer Vision

• 51

  OpenAI

  Alexander Kolesnikov

  

  Undergrad: Lomonosov Moscow State University

  PhD: ISTA

  Previous Company: Google Deepmind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 92,616

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Vision Transformers, Self-Supervised RL

• 52

  Google Deepmind

  Yi Tay

  

  Undergrad: Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  PhD: Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  Previous Company: Reka AI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 40,233

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reasoning, Scaling, Post-Training, Palm

• 53

  OpenAI

  Nick Ryder

  

  Undergrad: Rice University

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 90,376

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Data, Scaling, Base Models

• 54

  Meta

  Hyung Won Chung

  

  Undergrad: Unknown

  PhD: MIT

  Previous Company: Google Brain

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 41,103

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reasoning, Agents, Alignment

• 55

  Google Deepmind

  Mostafa Dehghani

  

  Undergrad: University of Tehran

  PhD: University of Amsterdam

  Previous Company: Apple

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 96,481

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Vision Transformers, Scaling, Supervised Learning

• 56

  Anthropic

  Sholto Douglas

  

  Undergrad: University of Sydney

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: Google DeepMind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: unknown

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Scaling RL, Thought Leadership

• 57

  Together AI

  Percy Liang

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: Stanford University

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 105,690

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: robustness, interpretability, semantics, reasoning

• 58

  Meta

  Jiahui Yu

  

  Undergrad: USTC

  PhD: University of Illinois

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 35,317

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Perception, Multimodal, Vision

• 59

  DeepSeek

  Deli Chen

  

  Undergrad: Peking University

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 8,101

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: DeepSeek, Reasoning, Graph Neural Nets

• 60

  Anthropic

  Nicholas Carlini

  

  Undergrad: University of California

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: Google DeepMind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 55,988

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Adversarial ML, Robustness, Self-supervised learning

• 61

  Google

  Kai Chen

  

  Undergrad: Tsinghua University

  PhD: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 121,669

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Hallucinations, Benchmarks

• 62

  Anthropic

  Trenton Bricken

  

  Undergrad: Duke University

  PhD: Hardvard University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 1,078

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Mechanistic Interpretability, Sparse Autoencoders

• 63

  OpenAI

  Wojciech Zaremba

  

  Undergrad: École Polytechnique

  PhD: New York University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 104,617

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: RL, Robotics, GPT, OpenAI

• 64

  US AI Safety Institute

  Paul Christiano

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 33,266

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: RLHF, Alignment, Safety, Scalable Oversight

• 65

  Google Deepmind

  Timothy P. Lillicrap

  

  Undergrad: University of Toronto

  PhD: Queen's University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 142,279

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: RL, Recurrent Memory, AlphaGo

• 66

  OpenAI

  Leo Gao

  

  Undergrad: Unknown

  PhD: Unknown

  Previous Company: EleutherAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 29,071

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Mechanistic Interpretability

• 67

  Deeplearning.ai

  Andrew Ng

  

  Undergrad: Carnegie Mellon University

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: Google Deepmind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 289,122

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Deep Learning, Google Brain

• 68

  Anthropic

  Amanda Askell

  

  Undergrad: University of Dundee

  PhD: New York University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 133,671

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Alignment, Fine-tuning, Ethics

• 69

  Stealth

  Edward J. Hu

  

  Undergrad: The Johns Hopkins University

  PhD: Université de Montréal

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 19,408

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: LoRA, μTransfer

• 70

  Meta

  Jack Rae

  

  Undergrad: University of Bristol

  PhD: UCL

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 33,718

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Memory, Reasoning

• 71

  OpenAI

  Yang Song

  

  Undergrad: Tsinghua University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 43,168

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Diffusion, Sampling, Optimization

• 72

  xAI

  Jimmy Ba

  

  Undergrad: University of Toronto

  PhD: University of Toronto

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 279,173

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Layer Norm, Adam Optimizer

• 73

  Google Deepmind

  Jon Barron

  

  Undergrad: University of Toronto

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 54,345

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: NeRF, 3D Scene Generation

• 74

  Stanford University

  christopher re

  

  Undergrad: Cornell University

  PhD: University of Washington

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 56,267

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Flash Attention, Sequence Length, Kernels

• 75

  Kimi

  Jianlin Su

  

  Undergrad: Sun Yat-sen University

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: Unknown

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 6,734

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Optimizers, Context-Length, MoE

• 76

  OpenAI

  Christopher Hesse

  

  Undergrad: Case Western Reserve University

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 90,031

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Infra, Scaling, Reinforcement Learning

• 77

  Anthropic

  Niki Parmar

  

  Undergrad: Pune Institute of Computer Technology

  PhD: USC

  Previous Company: Essential AI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 214,986

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Attention is All You Need

• 78

  Black Forest Labs

  Robin Rombach

  

  Undergrad: Heidelberg University

  PhD: Heidelberg University

  Previous Company: Stability

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 35,383

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Latent Diffusion, Generative Image and Video

• 79

  SSI

  Yair Carmon

  

  Undergrad: Israel Institute of Technology

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 6,540

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Optimizers, Robustness, Scaling

• 80

  Ndea

  Francois Chollet

  

  Undergrad: ENSTA Paris

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: Google

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 63,183

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Keras, ARC-AGI

• 81

  Transluce

  Jacob Steinhardt

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 31,191

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Robustness, Safety, Alignment, Benchmarking

• 82

  Anthropic

  Neil Houlsby

  

  Undergrad: University of Cambridge

  PhD: University of Cambridge

  Previous Company: Google DeepMind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 99,427

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Vision Transformers, MoE

• 83

  Alignment Research Center

  Jacob Hilton

  

  Undergrad: University of Cambridge

  PhD: University of Leeds

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 26,910

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Interpretability, Truthfulness, Safety

• 84

  Google Deepmind

  Koray Kavukcuoglu

  

  Undergrad: Middle East Technical University

  PhD: New York University

  Previous Company: NEC Laboratories America

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 273,314

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Torch, WaveNet, AlphaGo

• 85

  OpenAI

  Sandhini Agarwal

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 128,179

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Safety, Model Risk, RLHF

• 86

  Thinking Machines

  Stephen Roller

  

  Undergrad: North Carolina State University

  PhD: University of Texas Austin

  Previous Company: Google DeepMind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 11,188

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Infrastructure, Scale

• 87

  Queen's College

  George Boole

  

  Undergrad: None

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: Lincoln Mechanics' Institute

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: No

  Citations: unknown

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Boolean Algebra

• 88

  FAIR

  Piotr Dollar

  

  Undergrad: Harvard University

  PhD: UC San Diego

  Previous Company: Microsoft

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 286,778

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Computer Vision, Mask R-CNN

• 89

  Anthropic

  Nelson Elhage

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: Stripe

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: unknown

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Mechanistic Interpretability, Constitutional AI

• 90

  Runloop

  denny britz

  

  Undergrad: University of California

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 2,014

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Transformers

• 91

  Google Deepmind

  Xuezhi Wang

  

  Undergrad: Tsinghua University

  PhD: Carnegie Mellon University

  Previous Company: Google

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 51,985

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: CoT, Test-Time Inference, Robustness

• 92

  Anthropic

  Jack Clark

  

  Undergrad: University of East Anglia

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 52,978

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Safety, Alignment

• 93

  OpenAI

  Long Ouyang

  

  Undergrad: Harvard University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 39,420

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: InstructGPT, Alignment

• 94

  Anthropic

  Tom Henighan

  

  Undergrad: Ohio State University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 84,749

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Scaling Laws, Interpretability, Constitutional AI

• 95

  University of California

  Pieter Abbeel

  

  Undergrad: KU Leuven

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: Covariant AI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 206,267

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reinforcement Learning, TRPO, Apprenticeship Learning

• 96

  Thinking Machines

  Rowan Zellers

  

  Undergrad: Harvey Mudd College

  PhD: University of Washington

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 30,521

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Benchmarks, RL

• 97

  General Agents

  Sherjil Ozair

  

  Undergrad: IIT

  PhD: Université de Montréal

  Previous Company: Google DeepMind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 116,821

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: GANs, Vision, Agents

• 98

  Anthropic

  Sam McCandlish

  

  Undergrad: Brandeis University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 85,317

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Scaling Laws, Safety, Anthropic

• 99

  Google

  Jean Pouget-Abadie

  

  Undergrad: École Polytechnique

  PhD: Harvard University

  Previous Company: Google

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 103,793

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: GANs, Inference

• 100

  Ideogram

  Jonathan Ho

  

  Undergrad: University of California

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: Google Deepmind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 63,719

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: DDPM, Diffusion, GANs