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The Digg AI rankings track people actively involved in artificial intelligence across research, startups, investing, engineering, and media. It's built from the X social graph, using roughly 9 million follow relationships to map how the AI community connects.

187 tagged Academic

Yann LeCun

@ylecun

ACADEMIC1030 AI 1000 followers8.222 gravity

Professor at NYU & Executive Chairman at AMI Labs. Ex-Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc. ACM Turing Aw...

#16

Chelsea Finn

@chelseabfinn

ACADEMIC818 AI 1000 followers6.151 gravity

Asst Prof of CS & EE @Stanford Co-founder of Physical Intelligence @physical_int PhD from @Berkeley_EECS, EECS BS from @MIT

#18

Pieter Abbeel

@pabbeel

ACADEMIC784 AI 1000 followers6.062 gravity

Berkeley & Amazon

#19

Jürgen Schmidhuber

@SchmidhuberAI

ACADEMIC540 AI 1000 followers5.933 gravity

Introduced basics of: P & T in ChatGPT, very deep learning, meta learning, neural distillation, GANs, etc. Co-authored most-cited AI paper of 20th ...

#22

Kyunghyun Cho

@kchonyc

ACADEMIC745 AI 1000 followers5.875 gravity

a mediocre combination of a mediocre scientist and a mediocre advisor at @nyuniversity (@CILVRatNYU)

#23

Christopher Manning

@chrmanning

ACADEMIC757 AI 1000 followers5.854 gravity

Founder @stanfordnlp & cs224n—Senior Fellow @StanfordHAI—Prof. CS & Linguistics @Stanford—GP @aixventureshq—MTS @moonlake—Australian🇦🇺—Do #NLProc &...

#28

Russ Salakhutdinov

@rsalakhu

ACADEMIC683 AI 1000 followers5.713 gravity

UPMC Professor of Computer Science @ CMU, President Elect ICML Board, Ex-VP of Research @ Meta (Multimodal LLMs, AI Agents), ex-Director of AI at ...

#30

Sergey Levine

@svlevine

ACADEMIC725 AI 1000 followers5.452 gravity

Associate Professor at UC Berkeley Co-founder, Physical Intelligence

#51

Zachary Lipton

@zacharylipton

ACADEMIC678 AI 1000 followers4.849 gravity

Professor: CMU/@acmi_lab, Cofounder: @AbridgeHQ, Creator: @d2l_ai & http://approximatelycorrect.com, Relapsing 🎷

#59

Zoubin Ghahramani

@ZoubinGhahrama1

ACADEMIC555 AI 1000 followers4.714 gravity

VP Research, Google DeepMind, ex-head of Google Brain. Professor at University of Cambridge. Machine Learning Researcher. ex-Chief Scientist & VP o...

#65

Dan Roy

@roydanroy

ACADEMIC561 AI 1000 followers4.577 gravity

@Google DeepMind. On leave, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Former Research Director, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS). Views are my own.

#73

Yee Whye Teh

@yeewhye

ACADEMIC495 AI 1000 followers4.486 gravity

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

#78

Max Welling

@wellingmax

ACADEMIC513 AI 1000 followers4.412 gravity

#81

Ryan Adams

@ryan_p_adams

ACADEMIC493 AI 1000 followers4.383 gravity

Machine Learning Researcher, CS Professor (@PrincetonCS), Dad, Woodworker

#85

Ben Recht

@beenwrekt

ACADEMIC542 AI 1000 followers4.332 gravity

optimization. machine learning. uc berkeley. I blog at https://argmin.substack.com/ The world won't end.

#89

Jacob Andreas

@jacobandreas

ACADEMIC525 AI 1000 followers4.231 gravity

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

#93

Tim Rocktäschel

@_rockt

ACADEMIC541 AI 1000 followers4.198 gravity

Co-Founder @Recursive_SI, Professor of AI @AI_UCL, PI @UCL_DARK, Fellow @ELLISforEurope. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @AIatMeta @CompSciOxford

#94

Zico Kolter

@zicokolter

ACADEMIC530 AI 1000 followers4.192 gravity

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

#97

Ferenc Huszár

@fhuszar

ACADEMIC451 AI 1000 followers4.105 gravity

Founder & Supreme Leader of Technical Staff at Reasonable. Professor on leave from @Cambridge_CL. Alum of @Twitter, Magic Pony, @Balderton

#105

Hal Daumé III

@haldaume3

ACADEMIC474 AI 1000 followers4.034 gravity

http://haldaume3.bsky.social Human-centered AI, NLP & ML. Director @trails_ai. Prof @umdCS, member of @CLIPumd @HCIL_umd, former @MSFTresearch. Fu...

#107

Yejin Choi

@YejinChoinka

ACADEMIC502 AI 1000 followers4.000 gravity

professor at Stanford, researcher at NVIDIA, adventurer at heart

#117

Sanjeev Arora

@prfsanjeevarora

ACADEMIC449 AI 1000 followers3.901 gravity

Director, @PrincetonPLI and Professor @PrincetonCS. Seeks math/conceptual understanding of deep learning and large AI models. Also on the "other" s...

#118

Jeff Clune

@jeffclune

ACADEMIC465 AI 1000 followers3.893 gravity

Co-founder, Recursive. Professor, CS, U. British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. | ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algori...

#121

Neil Lawrence

@lawrennd

ACADEMIC413 AI 1000 followers3.882 gravity

Professor of machine learning at the University of Cambridge. Opinions are my own. Author of "The Atomic Human" Mainly found on @lawrennd.bsky.social

#125

Ethan Mollick

@emollick

ACADEMIC464 AI 1000 followers3.859 gravity

Professor @Wharton studying AI, innovation & startups. Democratizing education using tech Book: https://a.co/d/4VguzZz Substack: https://www.oneuse...

#126

Tengyu Ma

@tengyuma

ACADEMIC467 AI 1000 followers3.858 gravity

Assistant prof. @ Stanford; Chief AI Scientist @ MongoDB; Former Co-founder/CEO of Voyage AI Working on ML, DL, RL, LLMs, and their theory.

#128

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@yoavgo

ACADEMIC441 AI 1000 followers3.841 gravity

#130

Richard Sutton

@RichardSSutton

ACADEMIC516 AI 1000 followers3.826 gravity

Student of mind and nature, libertarian, chess player, cancer survivor. @ Keen, UAlberta, Amii, http://Openmindresearch.org, The Royal Society, Tur...

#131

Natasha Jaques

@natashajaques

ACADEMIC486 AI 1000 followers3.806 gravity

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

#139

Sham Kakade

@ShamKakade6

ACADEMIC395 AI 1000 followers3.731 gravity

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

#140

Jakob Foerster

@j_foerst

ACADEMIC458 AI 1000 followers3.728 gravity

Associate Prof in ML @UniofOxford. Something Something Research Scientist @MetaAI. Something @FLAIR_Ox. Always #teamhuman. Opinions belong to the w...

#170

Yarin

@yaringal

ACADEMIC415 AI 1000 followers3.593 gravity

Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford @OATML_Oxford Group Leader Expert Advisor to AISI "One of the top machine-learning people" - Ti...

#171

Luke Zettlemoyer

@LukeZettlemoyer

ACADEMIC422 AI 1000 followers3.576 gravity

#174

Tri Dao

@tri_dao

ACADEMIC469 AI 1000 followers3.572 gravity

Asst. Prof @PrincetonCS, Chief Scientist @togethercompute. Machine learning & systems.

#177

Yisong Yue

@yisongyue

ACADEMIC419 AI 1000 followers3.551 gravity

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

#191

Graham Neubig

@gneubig

ACADEMIC382 AI 1000 followers3.476 gravity

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

#193

Erik Brynjolfsson

@erikbryn

ACADEMIC327 AI 1000 followers3.470 gravity

Director @DigEconLab Co-founder, @Workhelix @StanfordHAI @SIEPR @Stanford https://www.amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies/dp/0393...

#194

Jason Lee

@jasondeanlee

ACADEMIC416 AI 1000 followers3.468 gravity

Associate Professor CS/stats UC Berkeley. Former Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. ML/AI Researcher working on LLMs and deep learning. PhD at ...

#205

Andrew Gordon Wilson

@andrewgwils

ACADEMIC402 AI 1000 followers3.418 gravity

Machine Learning Professor

#207

Ofir Press

@OfirPress

ACADEMIC454 AI 1000 followers3.410 gravity

I push the AI frontier by building tough benchmarks with amazing people. SWE-bench, SWE-agent, SciCode, AlgoTune. Postdoc @Princeton. PhD @nlpnoah ...

#211

Surya Ganguli

@SuryaGanguli

ACADEMIC339 AI 1000 followers3.393 gravity

Associate Prof of Applied Physics @Stanford, and departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Neurobiology. Venture Partner @General...

#212

Danqi Chen

@danqi_chen

ACADEMIC351 AI 1000 followers3.389 gravity

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

#221

Phillip Isola

@phillip_isola

ACADEMIC385 AI 1000 followers3.354 gravity

Associate Professor in EECS at MIT, trying to understand intelligence.

#228

Melanie Mitchell

@MelMitchell1

ACADEMIC341 AI 1000 followers3.326 gravity

Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Mostly posting on http://bsky.app (at-melaniemitchell). More thoughts at https://aiguide.substack.com.

#248

Csaba Szepesvari

@CsabaSzepesvari

ACADEMIC262 AI 1000 followers3.248 gravity

"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, Band...

#249

Chris J. Maddison

@cjmaddison

ACADEMIC319 AI 1000 followers3.246 gravity

ML faculty @UofT

#255

Dan Jurafsky

@jurafsky

ACADEMIC320 AI 1000 followers3.221 gravity

Professor of linguistics and professor of computer science at Stanford and author of the James Beard award finalist "The Language of Food"

#258

Diyi Yang

@Diyi_Yang

ACADEMIC342 AI 1000 followers3.219 gravity

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

#259

Animesh Garg

@animesh_garg

ACADEMIC346 AI 1000 followers3.213 gravity

Foundation Models for Generalizable Autonomy in Robotics. Reinforcement Learning. Faculty in AI Robotics @GeorgiaTech. Prev @nvidia @UCberkeley @st...

#264

Jure Leskovec

@jure

ACADEMIC303 AI 1000 followers3.200 gravity

Professor of #computerscience @Stanford; Co-founder at http://Kumo.AI #machinelearning #graphs.

#267

Azalia Mirhoseini

@Azaliamirh

ACADEMIC345 AI 1000 followers3.190 gravity

Founder @RicursiveAI, Asst. Prof. of CS at Stanford. Prev: DeepMind, Anthropic, Brain. Co-Creator of MoEs, AlphaChip, Test Time Scaling Laws.

#270

Shimon Whiteson

@shimon8282

ACADEMIC320 AI 1000 followers3.187 gravity

Professor of Computer Science at Oxford.

#271

Joelle Pineau

@jpineau1

ACADEMIC342 AI 1000 followers3.175 gravity

Chief AI Officer, @cohere Professor of Computer Science, @mcgillu Core academic member, @Mila_Quebec Ex-Meta (FAIR team)

#279

Alex Dimakis

@AlexGDimakis

ACADEMIC351 AI 1000 followers3.148 gravity

Professor, UC berkeley | Founder @bespokelabsai |

#281

Robin Hanson

@robinhanson

ACADEMIC246 AI 1000 followers3.140 gravity

Let’s skip witty banter & talk deep Qs. Books: http://ageofem.com http://elephantinthebrain.com Chief Scientist @_futarchy Advisor @MetaDAOProjec...

#285

Judea Pearl

@yudapearl

ACADEMIC328 AI 1000 followers3.127 gravity

Student of causal inference, human reasoning, and history of ideas, all viewed through the sharp lens of artificial intelligence.

#292

Noah A. Smith

@nlpnoah

ACADEMIC268 AI 1000 followers3.108 gravity

NLP&ML researcher. Prof @uwcse @uwnlp & helper @allen_ai @ai2_allennlp. Have not been accepting new followers here for some time, please try a bett...

#293

Michael Bronstein

@mmbronstein

ACADEMIC359 AI 1000 followers3.107 gravity

#DeepMind Professor of #AI @UniofOxford / Director #AITHYRA / Chief Scientist @proximabio / https://michael-bronstein.medium.com (opinions are mine...

#296

Mark Riedl

@mark_riedl

ACADEMIC364 AI 1000 followers3.096 gravity

AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor @GeorgiaTech. Associate Director @MLatGT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him

#302

Francis Bach

@BachFrancis

ACADEMIC292 AI 1000 followers3.084 gravity

Researcher in machine learning

#303

Tom Goldstein

@tomgoldsteincs

ACADEMIC344 AI 1000 followers3.079 gravity

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

#327

Emma Brunskill

@EmmaBrunskill

ACADEMIC262 AI 1000 followers3.035 gravity

Associate professor, Computer Science. Stanford. Stanford's Human Centered AI (HAI) Institute. Opinions expressed are my own.

#328

Bernhard Schölkopf

@bschoelkopf

ACADEMIC262 AI 1000 followers3.032 gravity

#329

Prof. Anima Anandkumar

@AnimaAnandkumar

ACADEMIC338 AI 1000 followers3.031 gravity

AI+Science, Bren Professor @caltech, Time100, Fmr Sr Director of #AI research @nvidia Fmr Principal Scientist @awscloud

#342

Arthur Gretton

@ArthurGretton

ACADEMIC269 AI 1000 followers3.003 gravity

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

#346

Christopher Potts

@ChrisGPotts

ACADEMIC286 AI 1000 followers2.998 gravity

Stanford Professor of Linguistics and, by courtesy, of Computer Science. Member of technical staff @stanfordnlp and @StanfordAILab. Co-founder @ Bi...

#353

David Sontag

@david_sontag

ACADEMIC263 AI 1000 followers2.978 gravity

CEO & Co-founder @layerhealth. Professor, MIT. Research on machine learning in health care. Part of @MIT_CSAIL, @MIT_IMES, @MITEECS, @AIHealthMIT

#357

Pang Wei Koh

@PangWeiKoh

ACADEMIC244 AI 1000 followers2.976 gravity

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

#361

Eric Topol

@EricTopol

ACADEMIC233 AI 1000 followers2.965 gravity

physician-scientist, author of SUPER AGERS https://tinyurl.com/3w76us9a and Ground Truths: http://erictopol.substack.com

#363

Omar Khattab

@lateinteraction

ACADEMIC347 AI 1000 followers2.961 gravity

Asst professor @MIT CSAIL @nlp_mit. Research includes http://ColBERT.ai, http://DSPy.ai (@DSPyOSS), RLMs, and GEPA. Prev: CS PhD @StanfordNLP. Re...

#364

Albert Gu

@_albertgu

ACADEMIC350 AI 1000 followers2.960 gravity

assistant prof @mldcmu. chief scientist @cartesia_ai. leading the ssm revolution.

#370

Kyle Cranmer

@KyleCranmer

ACADEMIC240 AI 1000 followers2.948 gravity

Director Data Science Institute @UWMadison @datascience_uw. EiC @MLSTjournal. Physics, stats/ML/AI, open science. same handle @sigmoid.social and bsky

#374

Yoav Artzi

@yoavartzi

ACADEMIC278 AI 1000 followers2.946 gravity

Research/prof @cs_cornell + @cornell_tech🚡 / http://nlp.cornell.edu / researcher @GoogleDeepMind / asso. faculty director @arxiv / building @COLM_conf

#376

Tal Linzen

@tallinzen

ACADEMIC282 AI 1000 followers2.939 gravity

Professor @nyuling and @NYUDataScience, research scientist @GoogleAI, inventor of the word "bertology"

#380

Elad Hazan

@HazanPrinceton

ACADEMIC242 AI 1000 followers2.935 gravity

machine learning and optimization @PrincetonCS & Google DeepMind Princeton, dad^3

#382

Gautam Kamath

@thegautamkamath

ACADEMIC293 AI 1000 followers2.933 gravity

Assistant Prof of CS @UWaterloo, Faculty @VectorInst, Canada @CIFAR_News AI Chair. Joining @NYU_Courant Fall 2026. Co-EiC @TmlrOrg. I lead @TheSalo...

#395

Abhishek Gupta

@abhishekunique7

ACADEMIC229 AI 1000 followers2.911 gravity

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

#400

Michael Littman

@mlittmancs

ACADEMIC237 AI 1000 followers2.904 gravity

#401

Eugene Vinitsky 🦋

@EugeneVinitsky

ACADEMIC276 AI 1000 followers2.902 gravity

This account only exists so no on else can occupy it. Please contact through other means. Lab website: http://emerge-lab.github.io

#406

Erin Grant

@ermgrant

ACADEMIC239 AI 1000 followers2.898 gravity

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

#409

Sewon Min

@sewon__min

ACADEMIC276 AI 1000 followers2.896 gravity

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

#416

Ludwig Schmidt

@lschmidt3

ACADEMIC236 AI 1000 followers2.885 gravity

Assistant professor at @Stanford and member of the technical staff at @AnthropicAI.

#420

Tatsunori Hashimoto

@tatsu_hashimoto

ACADEMIC270 AI 1000 followers2.882 gravity

Assistant Prof at Stanford CS, member of @stanfordnlp and statsml groups; Formerly at Microsoft / postdoc at Stanford CS / Stats.

#421

Dorsa Sadigh

@DorsaSadigh

ACADEMIC244 AI 1000 followers2.882 gravity

CS Faculty @Stanford, @StanfordAILab, @StanfordHAI Research scientist @GoogleDeepMind PhD and BS from @Berkeley_EECS

#425

Iain Murray

@driainmurray

ACADEMIC217 AI 1000 followers2.875 gravity

Prof Machine Learning and Inference @InfAtEd. Was Amazon Scholar @amazondevscot. Opinions are mine. https://mastodon.social/@imurray and http://imu...

#429

Naomi Saphra

@nsaphra

ACADEMIC276 AI 1000 followers2.873 gravity

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 Ph...

#431

Gabriel Peyré

@gabrielpeyre

ACADEMIC259 AI 1000 followers2.871 gravity

@CNRS researcher at @ENS_ULM. One tweet a day on computational mathematics.

#446

Jiajun Wu

@jiajunwu_cs

ACADEMIC248 AI 1000 followers2.837 gravity

Assistant Professor at @Stanford CS

#454

Angjoo Kanazawa

@akanazawa

ACADEMIC227 AI 1000 followers2.826 gravity

Assistant Professor at @Berkeley_EECS, @berkeley_ai. KAIR, @nerfstudioteam. Amazon Scholar @ FAR. Previously advised @WonderDynamics and @LumaLabsA...

#460

Timothy Gowers @wtgowers

@wtgowers

ACADEMIC224 AI 1000 followers2.819 gravity

Mathematician. Professeur titulaire de la chaire Combinatoire au Collège de France. Also fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.

#464

Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

ACADEMIC232 AI 1000 followers2.817 gravity

Artist and Engineering Prof @UCBerkeley, Co-Founder @AmbiRobotics & @JacobiRobotics. Interests: robots, rockets, redwoods, rebels.

#469

Suchi Saria

@suchisaria

ACADEMIC216 AI 1000 followers2.810 gravity

AI prof/Endowed Chair @JohnsHopkins, Foundr @BayesianHealth, investor 15+ AI startups, ex-Stanford AI, MIT TR35, Sloan, @wef YGL, @darpa AI safety ...

#470

Jason Eisner

@adveisner

ACADEMIC240 AI 1000 followers2.809 gravity

Professor of CS at Johns Hopkins University, ACL Fellow. My tweets speak only for me.

#474

François Fleuret

@francoisfleuret

ACADEMIC274 AI 1000 followers2.798 gravity

Research Scientist @meta (FAIR), Prof. @Unige_en, co-founder @neural_concept_. I like reality.

#479

Charles Isbell

@isbellHFh

ACADEMIC238 AI 1000 followers2.793 gravity

Professor & Chancellor, University of Illinois… but this is my personal account.

#482

Pulkit Agrawal

@pulkitology

ACADEMIC232 AI 1000 followers2.788 gravity

Co-Founder @EkaRobotics, Faculty @MIT

#483

Jelani Nelson

@minilek

ACADEMIC201 AI 1000 followers2.786 gravity

Professor and Department Chair @Berkeley_EECS. Research Scientist (part-time) @GoogleResearch. Founder @addiscoder. Posts are personal views. 🇻🇮🇺🇸🇪🇹

#490

Patrick Hsu

@pdhsu

ACADEMIC258 AI 1000 followers2.778 gravity

@ArcInstitute co-founder, @Stanford professor, @ThriveCapital investor | biology and ML research | 🇨🇦 prev @harvard @broadinstitute, Fast Grants

#496

Honglak Lee

@honglaklee

ACADEMIC221 AI 1000 followers2.772 gravity

Co-Head (Executive VP and Chief Scientist) of LG AI Research; Professor of CSE, U. Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ex-Google Brain; Sloan Research Fellow

#505

Brenden Lake

@LakeBrenden

ACADEMIC256 AI 1000 followers2.764 gravity

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology @ Princeton. Posts are my views only

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