Lihong Li

Sergey Levine

@svlevine

Associate Professor at UC Berkeley Co-founder, Physical Intelligence

Sebastien Bubeck

@SebastienBubeck

I work on AI at OpenAI. Former VP AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.

Yee Whye Teh

@yeewhye

Find me @yeewhye@sigmoid.social Professor at @OxCSML, @oxfordstats and Research Director at @GoogleDeepMind. All opinions are my own.

Zico Kolter

@zicokolter

Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at @CarnegieMellon. Board member @OpenAI and @Qualcomm. Chief Scientist @GraySwanAI.

Natasha Jaques

@natashajaques

Assistant Professor leading the Social RL Lab https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/ @uwcse and Staff Research Scientist at @GoogleAI.

Greg Yang

@TheGregYang

xai cofounder. fighting lyme

Sham Kakade

@ShamKakade6

Harvard Professor. Full stack ML and AI. Co-director of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Artificial and Natural Intelligence.

Nathan Lambert

@natolambert

Research @allen_ai, reasoning, open models, RL(VR/HF)... Contact via email. Writes @interconnectsai, @readsail Wrote The RLHF Book, 🏔️🏃‍♂️

Yisong Yue

@yisongyue

Machine Learning @Caltech (@YueLabCaltech). AI for invention at @AsariAILabs.

Marc G. Bellemare

@marcgbellemare

CSO & co-founder, Reliant AI. Ex RL research lead at Google Brain, DeepMind. Known for Atari 2600 RL benchmark, Distributional RL (MIT Press 2023).

Csaba Szepesvari

@CsabaSzepesvari

"If there is not folly in the world, then the world itself is folly. You must understand that mistakes are not always regrets." - Paul Tobin, Bandette🤠

Yang Song

@DrYangSong

Research Principal of MSL

Denny Zhou

@denny_zhou

Build LLM to reason

Shimon Whiteson

@shimon8282

Professor of Computer Science at Oxford. Senior Staff Research Scientist at Waymo.

Hongyu Ren

@ren_hongyu

research @meta superintelligence. CS PhD @stanford. prev @openai.

Mohammad Norouzi

@mo_norouzi

co-founder and ceo @ideogram_ai

Yuhuai (Tony) Wu

@Yuhu_ai_

know thyself. co-founder @xai.

Tom Goldstein

@tomgoldsteincs

Professor at UMD. AI security & privacy, algorithmic bias, foundations of ML. Follow me for commentary on state-of-the-art AI.

John Langford

@JohnCLangford

Solving Machine Learning at Microsoft in New York. http://icml.cc pandemic past president. http://vowpalwabbit.org makes RL real. http://hunch.net for thinking out loud.

Yuandong Tian

@tydsh

co-founder of Stealth Startup. ex-Meta FAIR Director. ex-Google. Reasoning, Optimization and Understanding LLM. Novelist in spare time. PhD in @CMU_Robotics.

Balaji Lakshminarayanan

@balajiln

Principal Research Scientist at @DeepMind. Opinions my own.

Arthur Gretton

@ArthurGretton

Professor in Machine Learning, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Research Scientist, Google DeepMind http://arthurgretton.bsky.social

Rishabh Agarwal

@agarwl_

Reinforcement Learner @periodiclabs, Adjunct Prof at McGill. Ex Meta, DeepMind, Brain, @iitbombay. NeurIPS Best Paper, On-Policy Distillation

Stephen McAleer

@McaleerStephen

AI researcher at Anthropic

Ed H. Chi

@edchi

Research VP @ GoogleDeepMind. ACM Fellow.

Ofir Nachum

@ofirnachum

Research at @OpenAI. Previously at @GoogleAI on the Brain Team. Doing work on #ReinforcementLearning and #MachineLearning

Ilya Kostrikov

@ikostrikov

Pre-Training Researcher @OpenAI, previously: RL/post-training @OpenAI, Postdoc at UC Berkeley @berkeley_ai, Researcher at Google Brain, PhD in CS @CILVRatNYU

Abhishek Gupta

@abhishekunique7

Assistant Professor at University of Washington. I like robots, and reinforcement learning. Previously: post-doc at MIT, PhD at Berkeley

Yu Bai

@yubai01

Training @OpenAI. Previously @SFResearch, PhD @Stanford.

Zhiqing Sun

@EdwardSun0909

Agents @Meta MSL TBD Lab. previously posttraining research @OpenAI train LLMs to do things: deep research, chatgpt agent, etc. CS PhD @LTIatCMU

Jenn Wortman Vaughan

@jennwvaughan

Sr. Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research, NYC. Machine learning transparency, intelligibility, fairness, evaluation.

Hanie Sedghi

@HanieSedghi

Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Interested in the science of deep learning. Current focus: Pushing boundaries of LLMs capabilities

Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Sc.D.

@ZeyuanAllenZhu

physics of language models @ Meta (FAIR at MSL, not GenAI or TBD) 🎓：Tsinghua Physics — MIT CSAIL — Princeton/IAS 🏅：IOI x 2 — ICPC — USACO — Codejam — math MCM

Jiajun Wu

@jiajunwu_cs

Assistant Professor at @Stanford CS

Marlos C. Machado

@MarlosCMachado

Assistant Professor @UAlberta. @AmiiThinks Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI chair.

Erin Grant @ ICLR 2026

@ermgrant

Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow @NYUDataScience studying cognition in mind & brain with neural nets, Bayes, other tools | http://bsky.app/profile/eringrant.me

Shunyu Yao

@ShunyuYao12

Language agents

Ethan Caballero

@ethanCaballero

ML @Mila_Quebec ; previously @GoogleDeepMind

Markus Wulfmeier

@m_wulfmeier

Chief Scientist #Nomagic - Prev. AI & Robotics @GoogleDeepMind @oxfordrobots @berkeley_ai @ETH @MIT - European @ELLISforEurope

Amy Zhang

@yayitsamyzhang

ECE prof. at UT Austin. Works in state abstractions and generalization in RL. Recruiting PhD students for Fall 26.

George Tucker

@georgejtucker

Researcher at Google Brain, thinking about RL and sequence models

Sherry Yang

@sherryyangML

Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind; Assistant Professor @NYU_Courant. Previously Post-Doc @Stanford, PhD @UCBerkeley, M.Eng. / B.S. @MIT.

Gergely Neu

@neu_rips

ML theory nerd & AI non-enthusiast

Jiaming Song

@baaadas

Chief Scientist @LumaLabsAI. #LumaDreamMachine

Pablo Samuel Castro

@pcastr

Señor swesearcher @ Google DeepMind. Adjunct prof @ U de Montreal & Mila. Musician. From 🇪🇨 living in 🇨🇦.

Yuke Zhu

@yukez

Associate Professor @UTCompSci | Director @NVIDIAAI Co-Leading GEAR | CS PhD @Stanford | Building generalist robot autonomy in the wild | Opinions are my own

Nan Jiang

@nanjiang_cs

machine learning researcher, with focus on reinforcement learning. assoc prof @ uiuc cs. Course on RL theory (w/ videos): https://nanjiang.cs.illinois.edu/cs542

David Abel

@dabelcs

Scientist @GoogleDeepMind and Fellow @EdinburghUni | RL, philosophy, agency, foundations, alignment | office hours: http://tinyurl.com/dabel-mtg

Roberta Raileanu

@robertarail

Open-Ended Team Lead and Senior Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind. Honorary Lecturer @UCL. ex @Meta | @NYU | @Princeton.

Rafael Rafailov @ NeurIPS

@rm_rafailov

I work on RL at @thinkymachines. Previously at @StanfordAILab @GoogleDeepMind @UCBerkeley

Brendan O'Donoghue

@bodonoghue85

Director of Research at @GoogleDeepMind, working on generative models, deep learning, RL. PhD from @stanford. Gemini Diffusion lead.

Casey Chu

@caseychu9

Researcher at @openai

Kyle Kastner

@kastnerkyle

computers and music are fun

Anna Harutyunyan | Աննա Հարությունյան

@aharutyu

researcher, philosopher, witch. rl @ deepmind. opinions my own

Katja Hofmann

@katjahofmann

At Microsoft Research. Lead of https://aka.ms/game-intelligence - we drive innovation in machine learning with applications in games. https://iclr.cc Board.

Bo Dai

@daibond_alpha

Assistant Professor at @gtcse, Research Scientist at @GoogleDeepMind | ex @googlebrain

Tim Vieira

@xtimv

machine learning, reinforcement learning, programming languages, handstands (he/him)

Elias Bareinboim

@eliasbareinboim

Professor of Causal Inference, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Director, CausalAI Lab @ Columbia University.

Karthik Narasimhan

@karthik_r_n

Professor@PrincetonCS, ex @OpenAI, @SierraPlatform, @MIT_CSAIL, @iitmadras Work: GPT, ReAct, Tree-of-Thoughts, SWE-Bench/Agent, TAU-bench, GEO

Ting Chen

@tingchenai

building multimodal AGI