Ruiqi Zhong @NeurIPS 25

Mira Murati

@miramurati

Now building @thinkymachines. Previously CTO @OpenAI

Sam Bowman

@sleepinyourhat

AI alignment + LLMs at Anthropic. On leave from NYU. Views not employers'. No relation to @s8mb. Into @givingwhatwecan.

Barret Zoph

@barret_zoph

@openai Past: - CTO & Co-Founder Thinking Machines Lab (@thinkymachines) - VP Research (Post-Training) @openai - Research Scientist at Google Brain

Jason Wei

@_jasonwei

ai researcher @meta superintelligence labs, past: openai, google 🧠

Roger Grosse

@RogerGrosse

David Duvenaud

@DavidDuvenaud

Machine learning prof @UofT. Former team lead at Anthropic. Working on generative models, inference, & latent structure.

Bob McGrew

@bobmcgrewai

Learning new things. Former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, early exec at Palantir, early employee at Paypal.

Jacob Andreas

@jacobandreas

Teaching computers to read. Assoc. prof @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL / @NLP_MIT (he/him). http://lingo.csail.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/jda/www

sarah guo

@saranormous

startup investor/helper, founder @conviction. accelerating AI adoption, interested in progress. tech podcast: @nopriorspod

Horace He

@cHHillee

@thinkymachines Formerly @PyTorch "My learning style is Horace twitter threads" - @typedfemale

Jacob Steinhardt

@JacobSteinhardt

Associate Professor of Statistics and EECS, UC Berkeley // Co-founder and CEO, @TransluceAI

Jason Weston

@jaseweston

Senior Director & RS @Meta + Visiting Prof NYU | OG in LLMs | Pretrain+Finetune in 2008+ | 147k+ citations | Current: Self-Improving & Co-Improving AI

Ethan Perez

@EthanJPerez

Large language model safety

Tim Dettmers

@Tim_Dettmers

Creator of bitsandbytes. Professor @CarnegieMellon and Research Scientist @allen_ai . I blog about deep learning and PhD life at http://timdettmers.com.

Eric Wallace

@Eric_Wallace_

research @openai

Luke Zettlemoyer

@LukeZettlemoyer

Buck Shlegeris

@bshlgrs

CEO@Redwood Research (@redwood_ai), working on technical research to reduce catastrophic risk from AI misalignment. bshlegeris@gmail.com

swyx 🇸🇬

@swyx

achieve ambition with intentionality, intensity, integrity & insanity. affiliations: - @dxtipshq - @cognition - @temporalio - @aidotengineer - @latentspacepod

Graham Neubig

@gneubig

Associate professor @LTIatCMU. Co-founder/chief scientist @OpenHandsDev. I mostly work on modeling language.

Danqi Chen

@danqi_chen

Associate professor @princetonPLI @PrincetonCS MoTS @thinkymachines Previously: @facebookai, @stanfordnlp, @Tsinghua_Uni

Denny Zhou

@denny_zhou

Build LLM to reason

Ajeya Cotra

@ajeya_cotra

Helping the world prepare for extremely powerful AI. Risk assessment @METR_evals. Writing at Planned Obsolescence (about AI), Good Bones (about whatever).

Hongyu Ren

@ren_hongyu

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

Alex Dimakis

@AlexGDimakis

Professor, UC berkeley | Founder @bespokelabsai |

Rohan Pandey

@khoomeik

descending cross-entropy to ascend entropy @PeriodicLabs || prev research @OpenAI @CarnegieMellon '23

Ananya Kumar

@ananyaku

Researcher at Meta TBD Labs. Previously core contributor to o1, o3, gpt5, at OpenAI. PhD at Stanford University AI Lab with Percy Liang and Tengyu Ma

Alexander Wei

@alexwei_

Reasoning @OpenAI. Co-built CICERO @MetaAI | @Berkeley_AI PhD '23 | @Harvard '20

Rowan Zellers

@rown

multimodal @thinkymachines. I also like to climb rocks and throw pottery. http://rowanzellers.com (he/him)

Diyi Yang

@Diyi_Yang

Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab Part time @humansand LLMs for Humans

Stephen Roller

@stephenroller

MoTS @thinkymachines. previously pre-training @googledeepmind, @character_ai, and @aiatmeta.

Ted Sanders

@sandersted

Research at OpenAI. Be kind to others, and yourself.

Tao Xu

@txhf

Learning Machine at OpenAI

Sam Schoenholz

@sschoenholz

@openai previously: @thinkymachines, google brain.

Dylan HadfieldMenell

@dhadfieldmenell

Associate Prof @MITEECS working on value (mis)alignment in AI systems; Safety & Alignment Advisor at http://Character.AI; @dhadfieldmenell@bsky.social; he/him

Stephen McAleer

@McaleerStephen

AI researcher at Anthropic

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

Researcher @MSFTResearch, AI Frontiers Lab; Prof @UWMadison (on leave); reasoning in context; learning how to automate; agent of agents; babas of Inez Lily.

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

Pang Wei Koh

@PangWeiKoh

Assistant professor at @uwcse and research scientist at @allen_ai. Formerly @StanfordAILab @GoogleAI @Coursera. 🇸🇬

Evan Hubinger

@EvanHub

Alignment Stress-Testing lead @AnthropicAI. Opinions my own. Previously: MIRI, OpenAI, Google, Yelp, Ripple. (he/him/his)

Stephanie Chan

@scychan_brains

Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. Artificial & biological brains 🤖 🧠 Societal impacts of AI + Science of AI. Views are my own.

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

Kevin Lu

@_kevinlu

Research @thinkymachines

Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc

@apples_jimmy

Wagmi. 2025. As featured in Bloomberg. As quoted by Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis. As mentioned on the Lex Fridman Podcast💺

Eric Zelikman

@ericzelikman

cofounder & ceo @humansand - building ai for humans // was lgtm-ing @xAI, phd-ing @stanford

Myle Ott

@myleott

ML infra @thinkymachines

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

Andrew Carr 🤸

@andrew_n_carr

co-founder leading science @getcartwheel co-founder advisor @arcade_ai Past: Codex @OpenAI, Brain @GoogleAI, world ranked Tetris player

Naomi Saphra

@nsaphra

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. Now a dedicated grok hate account. Accepting ML/NLP PhD students.

Junyang Lin

@JustinLin610

❤️ 🍵 ☕️ 🍷 🥃 🍺

Alex Tamkin

@AlexTamkin

machine learning, science & society @AnthropicAI | recently: Clio, Anthropic Economic Index, Claude Artifacts | prev: phd @StanfordAILab, @stanfordnlp

Shunyu Yao

@ShunyuYao12

Language agents

Sewon Min

@sewon__min

Assistant professor @Berkeley_EECS @berkeley_ai || Research scientist at @allen_ai || PhD from @uwcse @uwnlp

Alex Graveley

@alexgraveley

Co-creator Perplexity Computer, GitHub Copilot, Dropbox Paper. 2x CEO. Thruhiker. Survivor 🎗️

Ethan Caballero

@ethanCaballero

ML @Mila_Quebec ; previously @GoogleDeepMind

Sherry Yang

@sherryyangML

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

Tony Zhao

@tonyzzhao

Co-founder and CEO @sundayrobotics. Stanford PhD dropout, ex Deepmind, Tesla, GoogleX

Laurens van der Maaten

@lvdmaaten

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Ex-Meta. t-SNE. Llama 3. DenseNet. Web-scale weakly supervised vision. CrypTen.

dr. jack morris

@jxmnop

research // language models, information theory, science of AI // formerly @cornell

Brian Christian

@brianchristian

Researcher at the University of Oxford & UC Berkeley. Author of The Alignment Problem, Algorithms to Live By (w. Tom Griffiths), and The Most Human Human.

Demi Guo

@demi_guo_

Co-founder & CEO @pika_labs | AI Self @semi_guo_

Keller Jordan

@kellerjordan0

CIFAR-10 fanatic Pretraining @OpenAI OpCo LLC.

Rafael Rafailov @ NeurIPS

@rm_rafailov

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

Jeremy Bernstein

@jxbz

🧪 @thinkymachines ✍️ anon feedback @ http://admonymous.co/jxbz

Eunsol Choi

@eunsolc

on natural language processing / machine learning. assistant prof at @NYUDataScience @NYU_Courant prev @UTCompSci @googleai, @uwcse, @Cornell.

Mohit Bansal

@mohitban47

Parker Distinguished Prof @UNC. PECASE/ACL/AAAI Fellow. Director http://MURGeLab.cs.unc.edu (@unc_ai_group). Past @Berkeley_AI @TTIC_Connect @IITKanpur #NLP #CV

Greg Durrett

@gregd_nlp

Associate professor at NYU (Courant CS + Center for Data Science) | advisor for @bespokelabsai | large language models and NLP | he/him

tom white

@dribnet

creations with code and networks

Quanquan Gu

@QuanquanGu

Professor @UCLA, Pretraining and Scaling at ByteDance Seed | Recent work: Seed2.0, SeedFold | Opinions are my own

alth0u🧶

@alth0u

general partner at a16z art is a line through your thoughts erstwhile child

He He

@hhexiy

NLP researcher. Assistant Professor at NYU CS & CDS.

Jesse Mu

@jayelmnop

computational linguistics

Siddharth Karamcheti

@siddkaramcheti

Incoming Assistant Professor @GeorgiaTech / @ICatGT / @GTrobotics. Prev: PhD from @StanfordAILab @stanfordnlp. I like robots, language, and people.

Emma Pierson

@2plus2make5

Assistant prof @Berkeley_EECS, core faculty @UCJointCPH. Developing ML methods to study health & inequality. https://bsky.app/profile/emmapierson.bsky.social

David Bau

@davidbau

Computer Science Professor at Northeastern, Ex-Googler. Believes AI should be transparent. @davidbau@sigmoid.social @davidbau.bsky.social http://baulab.info

Sang Michael Xie

@sangmichaelxie

self-improving @OpenAI. Prev: PhD @StanfordAILab, @GoogleAI Brain/DeepMind, @Meta GenAI

Siva Reddy

@sivareddyg

Assistant Professor @Mila_Quebec @McGillU @ServiceNowRSRCH; Postdoc @StanfordNLP; PhD @EdinburghNLP; Natural Language Processor #NLProc

David Hall

@dlwh

Research Engineering Lead at @StanfordCRFM. Previously co-founder at Semantic Machines ⟶ MSFT. Lead developer of Levanter and Marin @dlwh@sigmoid.social

Daniel Fried

@dan_fried

Assistant prof. @LTIatCMU @SCSatCMU. Working on NLP: LLM agents, language-to-code, applied pragmatics, grounding.

Marco Mascorro

@Mascobot

rewarding compounding curiosity | roboticist | Prev: Partner @a16z, cofounder @Fellow_AI

Toby Shevlane

@tshevl

@_Mantic_AI cofounder & CEO, on a mission to solve forecasting. Prev: research scientist @GoogleDeepMind, PhD at @UniofOxford.

Machel Reid

@machelreid

research scientist @googledeepmind ♊️ post-training/thinking/rl

Brydon Eastman

@brhydon

🇨🇦 Mathematician (heavy on the ish) @thinkymachines Prev. MTS @OpenAI; PhD @WaterlooMath Certified wife guy, featured twice in Lego Magazine © ☕//🤔➡️💻

Qian Huang

@qhwang3

prev @xai | CS PhD student @StanfordAILab (on leave)

Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross

@alexwg

The Innermost Loop, also on Substack (http://alexwg.org/su), LinkedIn (http://alexwg.org/li), Spotify (http://alexwg.org/sp), Threads (http://alexwg.org/th), and YouTube (http://alexwg.org/yt).

Carina Hong

@CarinaLHong

@axiommathai : careers@axiommath.ai

Zhuohan Li

@zhuohan123

building @vllm_project at @meta | ex-openai | cs phd @ 🌁 uc berkeley | machine learning system | the real agi is the friends we made along the way

Jerry Wei

@JerryWeiAI

Aligning AIs at @AnthropicAI ⏰ Past: @GoogleDeepMind, @Stanford, @Google Brain

Karan Singhal

@thekaransinghal

Health AI, AGI benefits, safety @OpenAI

Rylan Schaeffer

@RylanSchaeffer

AI RS @ Meta TBD. On-Leave from Stanford w/ @sanmikoyejo. Prev @ Gemini, Meta, MIT, Harvard, Uber, UCL, UC Davis

Jason Phang

@zhansheng

Foundations at @OpenAI. PhD @NYUDataScience, @AiEleuther, 🇸🇬. Prev: @Google, @Microsoft

Jonathan Lachman

@jonlachman

founding head of operations at thinking machines @thinkymachines. former head of special projects @openai, obama @whitehouse national security budget director

Hugh Zhang

@hughbzhang

Neil Chowdhury

@ChowdhuryNeil

@TransluceAI, previously @OpenAI