I like to train large deep neural nets. Previously Director of AI @ Tesla, founding team @ OpenAI, PhD @ Stanford.
Ian Goodfellow
@goodfellow_ian
RESEARCHERCo-founder of stealth startup. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org Founding chairman of @pubhealthaction
Hugo Larochelle
@hugo_larochelle
RESEARCHERMila Scientific Director. Ex @Google DeepMind & Twitter Cortex. Father of 4. // Directeur scientifique à Mila. Ex @Google DeepMind & Twitter Cortex. Père de 4.
John Schulman
@johnschulman2
RESEARCHERRecently started @thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music
Kyunghyun Cho
@kchonyc
RESEARCHERa mediocre combination of a mediocre scientist and a mediocre advisor at @nyuniversity (@CILVRatNYU)
Chris Olah
@ch402
RESEARCHERReverse engineering neural networks at @AnthropicAI. Previously @distillpub, OpenAI Clarity Team, Google Brain. Personal account.
Nando de Freitas
@NandoDF
RESEARCHERMicrosoft CVP & CIFAR Fellow. Prev. Prof @ Oxford & DeepMind — AlphaGo-tuning AlphaCode Gato ReST SSM-Gemma Imagen Veo Genie MAI-voice MAI-Image MAI-Transcribe
Soumith Chintala
@soumithchintala
FOUNDERBuilding new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.
Noam Brown
@polynoamial
RESEARCHERResearching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o3 / o1 / 🍓 reasoning models
Jan Leike
@janleike
RESEARCHERAlignment team lead @AnthropicAI. Previously OpenAI & DeepMind. Optimizing for a post-AGI future where humanity flourishes. Opinions aren't my employer's.
Durk Kingma
@dpkingma
RESEARCHER@AnthropicAI. Prev. @Google Brain/DeepMind, founding team @OpenAI. Computer scientist; inventor of the VAE, Adam optimizer, and other methods. ML PhD.
Sebastien Bubeck
@SebastienBubeck
RESEARCHERI work on AI at OpenAI. Former VP AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.
Percy Liang
@percyliang
RESEARCHERprofessor of computer science @Stanford @stanfordnlp, co-founder of @togethercompute, creator of http://marin.community, co-founder of @simile_ai, pianist
Barret Zoph
@barret_zoph
RESEARCHER@openai Past: - CTO & Co-Founder Thinking Machines Lab (@thinkymachines) - VP Research (Post-Training) @openai - Research Scientist at Google Brain
Alexandr Wang
@alexandr_wang
FOUNDERchief ai officer @meta, founder @scale_ai. rational in the fullness of time
William Fedus
@LiamFedus
RESEARCHERCo-Founder of @periodiclabs Past: VP of Post-Training @OpenAI; Google Brain
Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
CREATORHost of @dwarkeshpodcast https://www.youtube.com/DwarkeshPatel https://open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gF https://apple.co/3ujLQkZ
Sander Dieleman
@sedielem
RESEARCHERResearch Scientist at Google DeepMind (WaveNet, Imagen, Veo). I tweet about deep learning (research + software), music, generative models (personal account).
Zachary Lipton
@zacharylipton
RESEARCHERProfessor: CMU/@acmi_lab, Cofounder: @AbridgeHQ, Creator: @d2l_ai & http://approximatelycorrect.com, Relapsing 🎷
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
@jaschasd
RESEARCHERMember of the technical staff @ Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamics.
Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
RESEARCHERPhilosopher & ethicist trying to make AI be good @AnthropicAI. Personal account. All opinions come from my training data.
Joshua Achiam
@jachiam0
RESEARCHERFreedom, flourishing, and abundance. Chief Futurist @openai. Main author of http://spinningup.openai.com
Dan Roy
@roydanroy
RESEARCHER@Google DeepMind. On leave, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Former Research Director, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS). Views are my own.
Shakir Mohamed
@shakir_za
RESEARCHERML with Social Purpose. @shakir@mas.to | Research Scientist @DeepMind | Strengthening African ML @DeepIndaba. He/Him. South African 🇿🇦🏳️🌈🌍
Yee Whye Teh
@yeewhye
RESEARCHERFind me @yeewhye@sigmoid.social Professor at @OxCSML, @oxfordstats and Research Director at @GoogleDeepMind. All opinions are my own.
Zico Kolter
@zicokolter
RESEARCHERProfessor and Head of Machine Learning Department at @CarnegieMellon. Board member @OpenAI and @Qualcomm. Chief Scientist @GraySwanAI.
Bob McGrew
@bobmcgrewai
EXECUTIVELearning new things. Former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, early exec at Palantir, early employee at Paypal.
Ferenc Huszár
@fhuszar
RESEARCHERFounder & Supreme Leader of Technical Staff at Reasonable. Professor on leave from @Cambridge_CL. Alum of @Twitter, Magic Pony, @Balderton
Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
RESEARCHERScaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter
Jacob Andreas
@jacobandreas
RESEARCHERTeaching computers to read. Assoc. prof @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL / @NLP_MIT (he/him). http://lingo.csail.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/jda/www
Danilo J. Rezende
@DaniloJRezende
RESEARCHERVP of AI Research, Principal Scientist @ EIT | ex-Director @ DeepMind Building models to accelerate fundamental sciences and medicine. Opinions my own.
Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
RESEARCHER@ Google Deepmind. Past: @MetaAI, @OpenAI, @unitygames, @losalamosnatlab, @Princeton etc. Always hungry for intelligence.
Dan Hendrycks
@hendrycks
RESEARCHER• Center for AI Safety Director • xAI and Scale AI advisor • GELU/MMLU/MATH/HLE • PhD in AI • Analyzing AI models, companies, policies, and geopolitics
Hal Daumé III
@haldaume3
RESEARCHERhttp://haldaume3.bsky.social Human-centered AI, NLP & ML. Director @trails_ai. Prof @umdCS, member of @CLIPumd @HCIL_umd, former @MSFTresearch. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️.
Natasha Jaques
@natashajaques
RESEARCHERAssistant Professor leading the Social RL Lab https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/ @uwcse and Staff Research Scientist at @GoogleAI.
Boaz Barak
@boazbaraktcs
RESEARCHERComputer Scientist. See also http://windowsontheory.org . @harvard @openai opinions my own.
Chelsea Sierra Voss
@csvoss
ENGINEERengineeress ✨ Member of Technical Staff @openai // serious play // past @pilothq, @sendwaveapp, @khanacademy, CS/math @MIT, 2x IBO gold
Smerity
@Smerity
RESEARCHERML x society. Founding Member of Technical Staff at Project Prometheus. Prev @midjourney, @SFResearch, @CommonCrawl. @Harvard '14, @Sydney_Uni '11. 🇦🇺 in SF.
David Dohan
@dmdohan
RESEARCHERreducing perplexity @openai | past: probabilistic programs, proteins, science & reasoning @ google brain 🧠
Joe Carlsmith
@jkcarlsmith
RESEARCHERPhilosophy, futurism, AI. Working on Claude's values @AnthropicAI. Formerly @coeff_giving. Opinions my own.
sarah guo
@saranormous
INVESTORstartup investor/helper, founder @conviction. accelerating AI adoption, interested in progress. tech podcast: @nopriorspod
Jakob Foerster
@j_foerst
RESEARCHERAssociate Prof in ML @UniofOxford. Something Something Research Scientist @MetaAI. Something @FLAIR_Ox. Always #teamhuman. Opinions belong to the world.
Been Kim
@_beenkim
RESEARCHERResearch Scientist at Google DeepMind, PhD from MIT. Make machines empower people.
Maithra Raghu
@maithra_raghu
EXECUTIVECofounder and CEO @Samaya_AI. Formerly Research Scientist Google Brain (@GoogleAI), PhD in ML @Cornell.
David Pfau
@pfau
RESEARCHERKnowledge manifests itself in radiant dreams that shimmer like the wild sun Views are my own http://davidpfau.com on 🦋
Karina Nguyen
@karinanguyen
RESEARCHERbuilding a new ai co @thoughtfullab_ (hiring!), prev. AI research & product @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @maisonagi (side proj)
Leo Gao
@nabla_theta
RESEARCHERworking on AGI alignment. prev: GPT-Neo, the Pile, LM evals, RL overoptimization, scaling SAEs to GPT-4, interp via circuit sparsity. EleutherAI cofounder.
Shivon Zilis
@shivon
EXECUTIVEArtificial intelligence, biological intelligence, and whatever exists in between and beyond. Made in Canada.
David Luan
@jluan
EXECUTIVEretired!! former cofounder of @adeptailabs, vp engineering @openai and @amazon, and @google LLMs lead. all about type II fun.
Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
RESEARCHERsomething new 💼 Past: Co-leading AI Scientist effort @AnthropicAI (Discovery team), Gemini @GoogleDeepMind (Co-led Blueshift team) 🎒Traveling & Backpacking
Charles Sutton
@RandomlyWalking
RESEARCHERResearch scientist @GoogleAI / Previously academic @InfAtEd / Deep learning to help people write code. / @chas@sigmoid.social / ❤️s:🐱🐶☕️🍕
Melanie Mitchell
@MelMitchell1
RESEARCHERProfessor, Santa Fe Institute. Mostly posting on http://bsky.app (at-melaniemitchell). More thoughts at https://aiguide.substack.com.
will depue
@willdepue
RESEARCHERretired ex @openai (posttraining o3/4o, sora 1 & 2, pretraining moonshots)
Tim Dettmers
@Tim_Dettmers
RESEARCHERCreator of bitsandbytes. Professor @CarnegieMellon and Research Scientist @allen_ai . I blog about deep learning and PhD life at http://timdettmers.com.
kipply
@kipperrii
ENGINEER"uncanny ability to be mentioned in every slack thread about code that's mysteriously breaking" - claude
Rosanne Liu
@savvyRL
RESEARCHERMom. Cofounded & running @ml_collective. Co-host of Deep Learning Classics & Trends. Research at Google DeepMind. DEI/DIA Chair of ICLR & NeurIPS.
👩💻 Paige Bailey
@DynamicWebPaige
ENGINEER✨ AI should be about empowering humans, building understanding, and making dreams realities. 👩💻 DevX Eng. Lead @GoogleDeepMind ex-@GitHub || views = my own!
Jane Wang
@janexwang
RESEARCHERSenior staff research scientist at DeepMind. AI and neuro. Former physicist, current human.
Douglas Eck
@douglas_eck
RESEARCHERGoogle DeepMind lead and recovering faculty member. Sometimes a musician. http://g.co/magenta. My personal opinions.
Victoria Krakovna
@vkrakovna
RESEARCHERResearch scientist in AI alignment at Google DeepMind. Co-founder of Future of Life Institute @FLI_org. Views are my own and do not represent GDM or FLI.
MMitchell
@mmitchell_ai
RESEARCHERInterdisciplinary researcher focused on shaping AI towards long-term positive goals. ML & Ethics. Similar content in the Skies (this bird has flown).
Mo Bavarian
@mobav0
RESEARCHERScaling up RL at OpenAI 🍓 Optimization and long context research before. Math PhD, MIT.
swyx 🇸🇬
@swyx
CREATORachieve ambition with intentionality, intensity, integrity & insanity. affiliations: - @dxtipshq - @cognition - @temporalio - @aidotengineer - @latentspacepod
Geoffrey Irving
@geoffreyirving
RESEARCHERChief Scientist at the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). Previously DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, etc.
Tejas Kulkarni
@tejasdkulkarni
RESEARCHERScientist @GoogleDeepMind. ex CEO @CSM_ai. Interested in AGI, Brain and AI creativity. PhD @mitbrainandcog
Azalia Mirhoseini
@Azaliamirh
RESEARCHERFounder @RicursiveAI, Asst. Prof. of CS at Stanford. Prev: DeepMind, Anthropic, Brain. Co-Creator of MoEs, AlphaChip, Test Time Scaling Laws.
Helen Toner
@hlntnr
POLICYAI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @CSETGeorgetown (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: http://helentoner.substack.com
Ajeya Cotra
@ajeya_cotra
RESEARCHERHelping the world prepare for extremely powerful AI. Risk assessment @METR_evals. Writing at Planned Obsolescence (about AI), Good Bones (about whatever).
Animesh Garg
@animesh_garg
RESEARCHERFoundation Models for Generalizable Autonomy in Robotics. Reinforcement Learning. Faculty in AI Robotics @GeorgiaTech. Prev @nvidia @UCberkeley @stanford
Devon ☀️
@devonzuegel
EXECUTIVEI've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait. Prev @GitHub @NotionHQ @Affirm @StanfordReview. Now building @Esmeralda_Inst
Owain Evans
@OwainEvans_UK
RESEARCHERRuns an AI Safety research group in Berkeley (Truthful AI) + Affiliate at UC Berkeley. Past: Oxford Uni, TruthfulQA, Reversal Curse. Prefer email to DM.
Misha Denil
@notmisha
RESEARCHERI tweet about things that interest me, mostly machine learning things. ex-DeepMind.
Denny Britz
@dennybritz
RESEARCHERHuman. Ex Google AI, Stanford, Berkeley. Lived in 🇯🇵🇩🇪🇺🇸🇰🇷🇹🇭. Opinions are not really my own.
Kevin Roose
@kevinroose
CREATORNYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, high-perplexity language model. Writing a book about AGI.
Tom Goldstein
@tomgoldsteincs
RESEARCHERProfessor at UMD. AI security & privacy, algorithmic bias, foundations of ML. Follow me for commentary on state-of-the-art AI.
Mark Riedl
@mark_riedl
RESEARCHERAI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor @GeorgiaTech. Associate Director @MLatGT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Theo Weber
@theophaneweber
RESEARCHERResearch scientist @ DeepMind; currently working on thinking/reasoning in Gemini.
Tom Brown
@nottombrown
FOUNDERCo-founder @AnthropicAI. Compute wrangler. Author of GPT-3. Cautiously optimistic.
Ananya Kumar
@ananyaku
RESEARCHERResearcher 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
Balaji Lakshminarayanan
@balajiln
RESEARCHERPrincipal Research Scientist at @DeepMind. Opinions my own.
Alexander Berger
@albrgr
POLICYEnjoys a good applied micro paper. CEO of @coeff_giving. Views my own, tweets self-destruct every once in a while.
Arthur Gretton
@ArthurGretton
RESEARCHERProfessor in Machine Learning, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Research Scientist, Google DeepMind http://arthurgretton.bsky.social
Danijar Hafner
@danijarh
RESEARCHERBuilding AI that autonomously understands and interacts with the world. Previous: @GoogleDeepMind @UCBerkeley @UofT
Deb Raji
@rajiinio
RESEARCHERAI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley. forever @AJLUnited, @hashtag_include ✝️
Eric
@ericmitchellai
RESEARCHERchatgpt posttraining @openai. building personal agi. I like ai and music and some other stuff
Neel Nanda
@NeelNanda5
RESEARCHERMechanistic Interpretability lead DeepMind. Formerly @AnthropicAI, independent. In this to reduce AI X-risk. Neural networks can be understood, let's go do it!
Alex Nichol
@unixpickle
RESEARCHERCode, AI, and 3D printing. Opinions are mostly my own, sometimes a computer's. Husband of @thesamnichol. Co-creator of DALL-E 2. Researcher @openai.
Katja Grace 🔍
@KatjaGrace
RESEARCHERThinking about whether AI will destroy the world at http://aiimpacts.org. DM or email for media requests. Feedback: http://admonymous.co/googolplex
andy jones
@andy_l_jones
RESEARCHERengineering & research at anthropic. i don't check twitter DMs. email me!
Stella Biderman @ ICLR
@BlancheMinerva
RESEARCHEREnsuring that tech companies don't have a monopoly on being able to do research on cutting edge AI @AiEleuther. She/her
Laurent Dinh
@laurent_dinh
RESEARCHERInternet pedestrian. ✨Content creator✨ (ML researcher). Tweets were not peer reviewed. (he/him/his). Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/laurentdinh.bsky.social
Ludwig Schmidt
@lschmidt3
RESEARCHERAssistant professor at @Stanford and member of the technical staff at @AnthropicAI.
Cade Metz
@CadeMetz
CREATORNew York Times reporter, covering A.I., driverless cars, and other changes: cade.metz@nytimes.com. My book, "Genius Makers": http://bit.ly/GeniusMakers.
Dileep George
@dileeplearning
RESEARCHERHead of AI @AsteraInstitute Prev: AGI @DeepMind, cofounder @vicariousai (acqd by Alphabet), cofounder @Numenta. IIT-Bombay, MS&PhD Stanford. http://www.agicomics.net
Honglak Lee
@honglaklee
RESEARCHERCo-Head (Executive VP and Chief Scientist) of LG AI Research; Professor of CSE, U. Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ex-Google Brain; Sloan Research Fellow
Pang Wei Koh
@PangWeiKoh
RESEARCHERAssistant professor at @uwcse and research scientist at @allen_ai. Formerly @StanfordAILab @GoogleAI @Coursera. 🇸🇬
Rui Shu
@_smileyball
RESEARCHERI draw smileyball http://instagram.com/smiley._.ball Writing organic artisanal handcrafted code @OpenAI Previously doing the same @Stanford
Ari Morcos
@arimorcos
RESEARCHERCEO and Co-founder @datologyai working to make it easy for anyone to make the most of their data. Former: RS @AIatMeta (FAIR), RS @DeepMind, PhD @PiN_Harvard.
@emilymbender.bsky.social
@emilymbender
RESEARCHERProf, Linguistics, UW // Faculty Director, CLMS // she/her // @emilymbender@dair-community.social & bsky // rep by @ianbonaparte
rishi
@RishiBommasani
RESEARCHERSocietal/economic impacts of AI; AI policy & governance @StanfordHAI Stanford CS PhD w/ @percyliang @jurafsky Cornell CS undergrad w/ @clairecardie
Rob Wiblin
@robertwiblin
CREATORHost of the 80,000 Hours Podcast. Exploring the inviolate sphere of ideas one interview at a time: http://80000hours.org/podcast/
Hattie Zhou
@oh_that_hat
RESEARCHERI want to understand things deeply and explain them well. Building friendly AI @AnthropicAI Give me anonymous feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/hattiezhou
Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse
POLICYUS Director @ControlAI - Leave me anonymous feedback: http://bit.ly/3RZbu7x - I don't know how to save the world, but dammit I'm gonna try
Igor Mordatch
@IMordatch
RESEARCHERResearch scientist @DeepMind and lecturer @UCBerkeley. Interested in AI/education/visual art/nature. Previously @OpenAI and @UCBerkeley.
Adam.GPT
@TheRealAdamG
EXECUTIVEGTM at @OpenAI. Senior token slinger. A fan of NY sports, memes, tech & nice people. NJ. My opinions are my own.
Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc
@apples_jimmy
CREATORWagmi. 2025. As featured in Bloomberg. As quoted by Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis. As mentioned on the Lex Fridman Podcast💺
Andrew Lampinen
@AndrewLampinen
RESEARCHERInterested in cognition and artificial intelligence. MTS at @AnthropicAI. Previously @DeepMind, cognitive science @StanfordPsych. Tweets are mine.
Ariel Herbert-Voss
@adversariel
RESEARCHERFounder @RunSybil. likes: offsec, LLMs, and dumb memes. prev: research scientist @OpenAI / CS PhD @Harvard / @defcon AI Village
Adam Roberts
@ada_rob
RESEARCHERPrincipal Scientist @ Google DeepMind :: 🌈psychedelic ai :: 📝 Foundational LLM work: TL for T5 & C4, core PaLM :: 👨💻 TL for T5x & SeqIO
Hanie Sedghi
@HanieSedghi
RESEARCHERStaff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Interested in the science of deep learning. Current focus: Pushing boundaries of LLMs capabilities
Jacob Austin
@jacobaustin132
RESEARCHERI sometimes do AI research. I also play piano and climb. NYC. Previously @GoogleDeepMind, @Google Brain. Opinions my own
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra
RESEARCHERWaiting 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.
Alex Tamkin
@AlexTamkin
RESEARCHERmachine learning, science & society @AnthropicAI | recently: Clio, Anthropic Economic Index, Claude Artifacts | prev: phd @StanfordAILab, @stanfordnlp
Evan Morikawa
@E0M
ENGINEER🤖 @Generalistai. Prev: led eng at @openai. Launched & scaled ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL·E, APIs. Dir Eng @Nylas, Co-Founder @Proximate, @OlinCollege alum.
Blake Richards
@tyrell_turing
RESEARCHERResearcher at @mcgillu combining AI and neuroscience. Also on Bluesky (@tyrellturing.bsky.social) and Mastodon: @tyrell_turing@fediscience.org.
Gautam Kamath
@thegautamkamath
RESEARCHERAssistant Prof of CS @UWaterloo, Faculty @VectorInst, Canada @CIFAR_News AI Chair. Joining @NYU_Courant Fall 2026. Co-EiC @TmlrOrg. I lead @TheSalonML.
Erin Grant @ ICLR 2026
@ermgrant
RESEARCHERAssistant Professor / Faculty Fellow @NYUDataScience studying cognition in mind & brain with neural nets, Bayes, other tools | http://bsky.app/profile/eringrant.me
Anna Goldie
@annadgoldie
RESEARCHERFounder & CEO at @RicursiveAI. Prev: @GoogleDeepMind, @AnthropicAI, @Stanford, @MIT. AlphaChip co-lead.
Alex Graveley
@alexgraveley
ENGINEERCo-creator Perplexity Computer, GitHub Copilot, Dropbox Paper. 2x CEO. Thruhiker. Survivor 🎗️
Lerrel Pinto
@LerrelPinto
RESEARCHERMaking robots more dexterous, robust and general. Co-founder of Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI)
Dan Roberts
@danintheory
RESEARCHERScientist @OpenAI. Prev. co-founder @diffeo, acquired by @salesforce // co-authored The Principles of Deep Learning Theory // studied gravity.
Yo Shavit
@yonashav
POLICYpolicy for v smart things @openai. Past: CS PhD @HarvardSEAS/@SchmidtFutures/@MIT_CSAIL. Tweets my own; on my head be it.
Alexey Guzey
@alexeyguzey
RESEARCHERhttp://guzey.com, http://newscience.org, @openai; in pursuit of a just, beautiful future.
Jacob Eisenstein
@jacobeisenstein
RESEARCHERI post about politics here, research at @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social
Eugene Vinitsky 🦋
@EugeneVinitsky
RESEARCHERThis account only exists so no on else can occupy it. Please contact through other means. Lab website: http://emerge-lab.github.io
Allan Dafoe
@AllanDafoe
POLICYAGI governance: navigating the transition to beneficial AGI (Google DeepMind)
Amy Zhang
@yayitsamyzhang
RESEARCHERECE prof. at UT Austin. Works in state abstractions and generalization in RL. Recruiting PhD students for Fall 26.
George Tucker
@georgejtucker
RESEARCHERResearcher at Google Brain, thinking about RL and sequence models
Yasaman Bahri
@yasamanbb
RESEARCHERResearch Scientist @GoogleDeepMind // AI + physics // Ph.D. @UCBerkeley.
Pablo Samuel Castro
@pcastr
RESEARCHERSeñor swesearcher @ Google DeepMind. Adjunct prof @ U de Montreal & Mila. Musician. From 🇪🇨 living in 🇨🇦.
David Sussillo
@SussilloDavid
RESEARCHERNeural reverse engineer. Author. Adjunct prof at Stanford. Previous: Meta Reality Labs, Google Brain Milton Hershey Alum.
Yaroslav Bulatov
@yaroslavvb
RESEARCHER@southparkcommons (early OpenAI, Google Brain, Meta) https://yaroslavvb.substack.com/ https://medium.com/@yaroslavvb https://yaroslavvb.blogspot.com/
Alex Mordvintsev
@zzznah
RESEARCHERMad Scientist, DeepDream creator. Designing Self-Organising Systems and Programmable Artificial Life. http://youtube.com/zzznah
Brian Christian
@brianchristian
RESEARCHERResearcher at the University of Oxford & UC Berkeley. Author of The Alignment Problem, Algorithms to Live By (w. Tom Griffiths), and The Most Human Human.
jasmine collins
@jazco
RESEARCHERresearch scientist @databricks! previously @berkeley_ai phd, @googleai and @metaai. interested in human brains and computer brains 💫
Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
RESEARCHERMore wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy! R&D on tools for thought, with a focus on memory, reading, and attention. Currently working on @pico.
David Abel
@dabelcs
RESEARCHERScientist @GoogleDeepMind and Fellow @EdinburghUni | RL, philosophy, agency, foundations, alignment | office hours: http://tinyurl.com/dabel-mtg
Russell Kaplan
@russelljkaplan
FOUNDERPresident @cognition. Past: director of engineering @Scale_AI, startup founder, ML scientist @Tesla Autopilot, researcher @StanfordSVL.
Roberta Raileanu
@robertarail
RESEARCHEROpen-Ended Team Lead and Senior Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind. Honorary Lecturer @UCL. ex @Meta | @NYU | @Princeton.
Mihaela Rosca
@MihaelaCRosca
RESEARCHERGemini pre-training. Machine learning PhD from UCL. Views are my own. She/her.
Lisha
@lishali88
FOUNDERBuilding 🌹 @rosebud_ai. Make games. PhD math/AI Berkeley I talk about physics on Tiktok http://www.tiktok.com/@lishali_88 👼 Angel investor: https://lishali.com
Adam Gleave
@ARGleave
RESEARCHERCEO & co-founder @FARAIResearch non-profit | PhD from @berkeley_ai | Alignment & robustness | on bsky as http://gleave.me
Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau
@jm_alexia
RESEARCHERAI Researcher 🐱💻 2025 ARC Prize Winner I build generative AI for images, videos, text, tabular data, weights, molecules, and video games.
Ankur Handa
@ankurhandos
RESEARCHERRobotics Researcher @NvidiaAI. Co-lead the dex team focussed on superhuman dexterity. Previously, Researcher at @OpenAI
Ekin Dogus Cubuk
@ekindogus
RESEARCHERCo-Founder of @periodiclabs Past: Lead of materials science and chemistry at @GoogleDeepMind; Google Brain
Rosie Campbell
@RosieCampbell
POLICYForever expanding my nerd/bimbo Pareto frontier. AI welfare 🤝 AI safety. Managing Director @eleosai, Ex-OpenAI, 2024 @rootsofprogress fellow
Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name)
@daniel_271828
RESEARCHERResearching effects of automated AI R&D | pro-America, pro-tech, & pro-AI safety
Summer Yue
@summeryue0
RESEARCHERSafety and alignment at Meta Superintelligence. Prev: VP of Research at Scale AI, research at Google DeepMind / Brain (Gemini, LaMDA, RL / TFAgents, AlphaChip).
Rob Miles
@robertskmiles
CREATORExplaining AI Alignment to anyone who'll stand still for long enough, on YouTube and Discord. Music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery
Jacob Buckman
@jacobmbuckman
RESEARCHERFounder @manifest__ai. PhD candidate @MILAMontreal. Formerly @jhuclsp, @GoogleAI, @SCSatCMU.
Brendan O'Donoghue
@bodonoghue85
RESEARCHERDirector of Research at @GoogleDeepMind, working on generative models, deep learning, RL. PhD from @stanford. Gemini Diffusion lead.
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
@pyoudeyer
RESEARCHERResearch director in AI and CogSci @inria, Head of @flowersInria lab, prev. @MSFTResearch @SonyCSLParis https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierreyvesoudeyer/
Konstantinos Bousmalis
@bousmalis
RESEARCHERResearch Scientist at DeepMind, working on robotic learning
Tamara Winter
@tamarawinter
EXECUTIVEPublisher @stripepress | Board @ifp + @joinFAI | Creator of TACIT, a mini-documentary series following master craftspeople at work
Nicolas Papernot
@NicolasPapernot
RESEARCHERSecurity and Privacy of Machine Learning @Uoft @VectorInst @Google 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 Co-author http://cleverhans.io; @CentraleLyon + @PSUEngineering alumnus. Opinions mine
Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
CREATORcloudcat // new book about ideas that don’t spread: https://darkforest.metalabel.com/antimemetics
José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente
@ArtirKel
RESEARCHERHead of Theory at @RetroBio_ , enjoyer of things, blog: http://nintil.com
Simon Kornblith
@skornblith
RESEARCHERresearcher/engineer @AnthropicAI | former @GoogleDeepMind @mitbrainandcog @zotero | @simonster@sigmoid.social
Danielle Belgrave
@DaniCMBelg
RESEARCHERVP of AI/ML @GSK. Curious about using AI to make the world a better place. Views my own.
Siddharth Karamcheti
@siddkaramcheti
RESEARCHERIncoming Assistant Professor @GeorgiaTech / @ICatGT / @GTrobotics. Prev: PhD from @StanfordAILab @stanfordnlp. I like robots, language, and people.
Steven Adler
@sjgadler
RESEARCHERAI safety researcher (ex-OpenAI: danger evals, AGI readiness, etc), writing at https://clear-eyed.ai
Scott Niekum
@scottniekum
RESEARCHERAssociate professor at UMass Amherst CICS. AIignment, safety, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and robotics.
Keerthana Gopalakrishnan
@keerthanpg
RESEARCHERResearch Lead Gemini Robotics @GoogleDeepmind. Author of "AI for Robotics" book. Opinions my own.
Michela Paganini
@WonderMicky
RESEARCHERStaff Research Scientist @DeepMind | LLMs, Evals & Model Understanding | Previously: @facebookAI | @Yale Physics PhD | @CERN | @BerkeleyLab | @UCBerkeley
Matt Clifford
@matthewclifford
FOUNDERCo-founder @join_ef; Chair @ARIA_Research; Make Britain Rich Again.
Mario Klingemann💧💦
@quasimondo
CREATORArtist, Neurographer, Automancer, Purveyor of Systems, Data Dumpster Diver, Information Recycler
Tianqi Chen
@tqchenml
RESEARCHERAssistProf @CarnegieMellon. Distinguished Eng @NVIDIA. Creator of @XGBoostProject, @ApacheTVM. Member http://catalyst.cs.cmu.edu, @TheASF. Views are on my own
David Bau
@davidbau
RESEARCHERComputer Science Professor at Northeastern, Ex-Googler. Believes AI should be transparent. @davidbau@sigmoid.social @davidbau.bsky.social http://baulab.info
Anna Harutyunyan | Աննա Հարությունյան
@aharutyu
RESEARCHERresearcher, philosopher, witch. rl @ deepmind. opinions my own
Negar Rostamzadeh
@negar_rz
RESEARCHERStaff RS @Google Research, Adjunct Professor @McGillu, Core Industry Member @MIlAMontreal
Shreya Shankar
@sh_reya
RESEARCHERData systems & HCI researcher. On the CS faculty job market. Created http://docetl.org and http://evals.info. PhD @Berkeley_EECS; undergrad @Stanford CS.
Irene Solaiman
@IreneSolaiman
POLICYai stuff @huggingface 🤗 founded @evaluatingevals views=mine former: @OpenAI @Harvard aspiring ukulele-singer
Sam Shleifer
@sam_shleifer
RESEARCHERFounding Team Thinking Machines. Previously @c.ai. I like zsh aliases, audiobooks, and running. This does not reflect the opinions of my future self.
Ben Kuhn
@benkuhn
ENGINEERCare a lot and try hard • making language models safer @AnthropicAI • prev CTO @WaveSenegal 🐧❤️
Rianne van den Berg
@vdbergrianne
RESEARCHERPrincipal research manager at Microsoft Research Amsterdam. Formerly at Google Brain and University of Amsterdam. PhD in condensed matter physics.
Jacob Jackson
@jbfja
FOUNDER@cursor_ai, created https://same.energy, started @SupermavenAI and @Tabnine, formerly @OpenAI
David Hall
@dlwh
ENGINEERResearch Engineering Lead at @StanfordCRFM. Previously co-founder at Semantic Machines ⟶ MSFT. Lead developer of Levanter and Marin @dlwh@sigmoid.social
Ishaan Gulrajani
@__ishaan
RESEARCHERHi! I’m a machine learning researcher @openai. Previously @stanford @facebook @google @mila_quebec
Ross Taylor
@rosstaylor90
RESEARCHERCo-founder and CEO @GenReasoning. Previously lots of other things like: reasoning lead Meta AI, Llama 3/2, Galactica, Papers with Code.
Tim Vieira
@xtimv
RESEARCHERmachine learning, reinforcement learning, programming languages, handstands (he/him)
Daniela Amodei
@DanielaAmodei
FOUNDERPresident @AnthropicAI. Formerly @OpenAI, @Stripe, congressional staffer, global development
Piotr Mirowski @bsky.social
@MirowskiPiotr
RESEARCHERResearch scientist in machine learning @DeepMind. Ex-@BellLabs/@Microsoft/PhD@NYU. Work in AI for weather and for artistic creativity. he/him. Account inactive.
Tristan Harris
@tristanharris
POLICY• Co-founder @HumaneTech_ • Former Google Design Ethicist • Featured in Netflix's @SocialDilemma_ • #TIME100 for AI • Host #YourUndividedAttention podcast
Remi Denton
@cephaloponderer
RESEARCHERI study AI systems and those who build them • (gender)queer • they/them
Marius Hobbhahn
@MariusHobbhahn
FOUNDERCEO at Apollo Research @apolloaievals prev. ML PhD with Philipp Hennig & AI forecasting @EpochAIResearch
Irene Chen
@irenetrampoline
RESEARCHERML for healthcare and equity. Assistant Professor @UCBerkeley and @UCSF. Prev @Harvard, @MIT, @MSFTResearch
Avital Oliver
@avitaloliver
RESEARCHERNeural Network Plumber @OpenAI. Formerly Google Brain. Worked on http://github.com/google/flax. I used to think I'd become a math professor.
Nathan Labenz
@labenz
CREATORAI Scout, building text-2-video @Waymark, host of The Cognitive Revolution podcast
Eli Lifland
@eli_lifland
RESEARCHERAI forecasting and governance @AI_Futures_. Co-author of AI 2027 and the AI Futures Model. Also @aidigest_, @SamotsvetyF. Prev @oughtinc
Pranav Shyam
@recurseparadox
RESEARCHERresearch scientist at google deepmind. ಕನ್ನಡಿಗ. past: generative models @openai
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀
@peterwildeford
POLICYHead of Policy @AIPolicyNetwork. Ohioan. World champion forecaster. Former data scientist. Protecting liberty and prosperity in the age of superintelligence.
Jon Gauthier
@j_gauthier
RESEARCHERCognitive neuroscientist. Postdoc at UCSF. Formerly @mitbrainandcog, @StanfordNLP, @OpenAI, @GoogleBrain. NLP, linguistics, ML, neuroscience, biking!
Ben Hamner
@benhamner
FOUNDERSumble co-founder and CTO. Learning high-quality, structured data about the world. Formerly @kaggle
Toby Shevlane
@tshevl
RESEARCHER@_Mantic_AI cofounder & CEO, on a mission to solve forecasting. Prev: research scientist @GoogleDeepMind, PhD at @UniofOxford.
Peter J. Liu
@peterjliu
RESEARCHERBuilding @getcompoundai (hiring: http://twentylabs.ai/careers). Was Research Scientist @ Google Brain / DeepMind, language model research. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Andrew Critch (🤖🩺🚀)
@AndrewCritchPhD
RESEARCHERCEO @ http://theMultiplicity.ai/. AI Researcher @ Berkeley. Views my own. I also post my favorite healthy+tasty foods for free.
Jarred Sumner
@jarredsumner
FOUNDERbuilding @bunjavascript at @anthropicai. formerly: @stripe (twice) @thielfellowship. high school dropout. npm i -g bun
Julia Galef
@juliagalef
CREATORAuthor of THE SCOUT MINDSET and host of the Rationally Speaking podcast
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross
@alexwg
CREATORThe 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).
Lulie
@reasonisfun
CREATOREpistemology applied to everything. 💫 Host of Reason Is Fun podcast w/ @DavidDeutschOxf 🎙️ Taking critical rationalism into life – how to improve both.
Vedant Misra
@vedantmisra
RESEARCHERASI @DeepMind | @OpenAI (Reasoning / Algorithms Lead) | @HubSpot (ML Labs) | Founder/CEO Kemvi (acq HubSpot) | Physics @Columbia | Husband and Dad
David Manheim ✈️ Singapore for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42
@davidmanheim
RESEARCHERLecturer @TechnionLive, founder @alter_org_il, emeritus @superforecaster, PhD @PardeeRAND Optimistic on AI, pessimistic on humanity managing the risks well.
Saffron Huang
@saffronhuang
RESEARCHERhow shall we live together? societal impacts researcher @AnthropicAI • ex @GoogleDeepMind @AISecurityInst⋅ @collect_intel co-founder • views mine
Jerry Wei
@JerryWeiAI
RESEARCHERAligning AIs at @AnthropicAI ⏰ Past: @GoogleDeepMind, @Stanford, @Google Brain
Joel Lehman
@joelbot3000
RESEARCHERML researcher, co-author Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Creative+safe AI, philosophy. SiR @second_natureai; prev OpenAI / Uber AI / Geometric Intelligence
Rylan Schaeffer
@RylanSchaeffer
RESEARCHERAI RS @ Meta TBD. On-Leave from Stanford w/ @sanmikoyejo. Prev @ Gemini, Meta, MIT, Harvard, Uber, UCL, UC Davis
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
@S_OhEigeartaigh
RESEARCHERDirector of http://ai-far.org at Uni of Cambridge | Researching Big Risks, and impacts of AI & emerging tech. Opinions own
Michael Lai
@Mtclai
POLITICIANAI for state + local government @AnthropicAI | SF elected | community builder
Jason Phang
@zhansheng
RESEARCHERFoundations at @OpenAI. PhD @NYUDataScience, @AiEleuther, 🇸🇬. Prev: @Google, @Microsoft
Daniel De Freitas
@dan_defr
RESEARCHERResearch Scientist at Google DeepMind. Created Meena/LaMDA and Co-founded http://Character.AI with Noam Shazeer.
Cathy Wu (Hiring PhD/postdocs)
@wucathy
RESEARCHERFaculty at @MIT. Learning for control and optimization. Reinforcement Learning. Multi-agent systems. Autonomy. Mobility.
Roy Frostig
@froystig
RESEARCHERresearch scientist at @googledeepmind. co-author of JAX (https://github.com/jax-ml/jax)
Shantanu Jain
@hauntsaninja
ENGINEER@OpenAI. CPython core dev, making Python typing better https://hauntsaninja.github.io awesome in every mausam.
Jonathan Raiman
@jonathanrraiman
RESEARCHER❤️ training deep nets :) AI research on large generative models, RL, OpenAI Five @openai and PrefixRL @Nvidia Hopper co-creator