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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.

181 tagged Research Engineer

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

RESEARCH ENGINEER1310 AI 1000 followers10.000 gravity

I like to train large deep neural nets. Previously Director of AI @ Tesla, founding team @ OpenAI, PhD @ Stanford.

Jeff Dean

@JeffDean

RESEARCH ENGINEER1193 AI 1000 followers9.329 gravity

Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind & Google Research. Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigta...

#11

Oriol Vinyals

@OriolVinyalsML

RESEARCH ENGINEER886 AI 1000 followers6.699 gravity

VP of Research & Deep Learning Lead, Google DeepMind. Gemini co-lead. Past: AlphaStar, AlphaFold, AlphaCode, WaveNet, seq2seq, distillation, TF.

#21

John Schulman

@johnschulman2

RESEARCH ENGINEER885 AI 1000 followers5.897 gravity

Recently started @thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music

#29

Noam Brown

@polynoamial

RESEARCH ENGINEER787 AI 1000 followers5.535 gravity

Researching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o3 / o1 / 🍓 reasoning models

#33

Eric Jang

@ericjang11

RESEARCH ENGINEER742 AI 1000 followers5.221 gravity

#41

Percy Liang

@percyliang

RESEARCH ENGINEER712 AI 1000 followers4.997 gravity

professor of computer science @Stanford @stanfordnlp, co-founder of @togethercompute, creator of http://marin.community, co-founder of @simile_ai, ...

#44

Alec Radford

@AlecRad

RESEARCH ENGINEER671 AI 1000 followers4.982 gravity

#46

Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

RESEARCH ENGINEER744 AI 1000 followers4.960 gravity

NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st ...

#49

Mark Chen

@markchen90

RESEARCH ENGINEER596 AI 1000 followers4.889 gravity

Chief Research Officer at @OpenAI. Coach for the USA IOI Team.

#55

Sasha Rush

@srush_nlp

RESEARCH ENGINEER688 AI 1000 followers4.764 gravity

Researcher at Cursor https://www.youtube.com/@srush_nlp

#68

Barret Zoph

@barret_zoph

RESEARCH ENGINEER576 AI 1000 followers4.541 gravity

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

#69

Shane Gu

@shaneguML

RESEARCH ENGINEER617 AI 1000 followers4.535 gravity

Gemini/Veo Thinking, Senior Staff AE @GoogleDeepMind. 🇯🇵-born 🇨🇳🇨🇦. ex: Gemini 1.5-3, GPT-4 @OpenAI, Google Robotics (JP: @shanegJP). Personal opin...

#75

Jakub Pachocki

@merettm

RESEARCH ENGINEER400 AI 1000 followers4.466 gravity

OpenAI

#79

James Bradbury

@jekbradbury

RESEARCH ENGINEER585 AI 1000 followers4.396 gravity

Compute at @AnthropicAI! Previously JAX, TPUs, and LLMs at Google, MetaMind/@SFResearch, @Stanford Linguistics, @Caixin.

#83

Luke Metz

@Luke_Metz

RESEARCH ENGINEER526 AI 1000 followers4.357 gravity

OpenAI Previously: Thinking Machines, Google Brain

#86

John Carmack

@ID_AA_Carmack

RESEARCH ENGINEER541 AI 1000 followers4.311 gravity

AGI at Keen Technologies, former CTO Oculus VR, Founder Id Software and Armadillo Aerospace

#87

Dustin Tran

@dustinvtran

RESEARCH ENGINEER537 AI 1000 followers4.264 gravity

post-training lead at xAI. ex-google

#88

Jerry Tworek

@MillionInt

RESEARCH ENGINEER490 AI 1000 followers4.263 gravity

CEO and co-founder of Core Automation former VP of RL @ OpenAI : reasoning models, o3, o1, GPT4, ChatGPT, Codex, RL for robots cautious AI optimist

#96

rohan anil

@_arohan_

RESEARCH ENGINEER509 AI 1000 followers4.154 gravity

member of technical staff & co-founder of @coreautoai - and continuing to aspire to understand deep learning.

#100

Susan Zhang

@suchenzang

RESEARCH ENGINEER549 AI 1000 followers4.057 gravity

@ Google Deepmind. Past: @MetaAI, @OpenAI, @unitygames, @losalamosnatlab, @Princeton etc. Always hungry for intelligence.

#101

Jack Rae

@jack_w_rae

RESEARCH ENGINEER488 AI 1000 followers4.055 gravity

Distinguished Scientist @ Meta LLMs (e.g. Gopher, Chinchilla, Gemini, Muse) Compression & RL ☯️ Past: Google, OpenAI, Quora

#104

Matthew Johnson

@SingularMattrix

RESEARCH ENGINEER489 AI 1000 followers4.046 gravity

Researcher at Google Brain. I work on JAX (https://github.com/google/jax).

#110

Catherine Olsson

@catherineols

RESEARCH ENGINEER485 AI 1000 followers3.985 gravity

Hanging out with Claude, improving its behavior, and building tools to support that @AnthropicAI 😁 prev: @open_phil @googlebrain @openai (@microco...

#111

Sholto Douglas

@_sholtodouglas

RESEARCH ENGINEER543 AI 1000 followers3.970 gravity

Scaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter

#113

Igor Babuschkin

@ibab

RESEARCH ENGINEER515 AI 1000 followers3.966 gravity

Prev co-founder @xAI, Research & Engineering

#129

Aakanksha Chowdhery

@achowdhery

RESEARCH ENGINEER471 AI 1000 followers3.826 gravity

@Stanford @reflection_ai // Previously @GoogleDeepMind :: PaLM, Gemini // @MSFTResearch, @Princeton // views my own and subject to change

#133

Szymon Sidor

@sidorszymon

RESEARCH ENGINEER166 AI 1000 followers3.789 gravity

Building AGI one line of code at the time.

#138

Aidan Clark

@_aidan_clark_

RESEARCH ENGINEER364 AI 1000 followers3.754 gravity

Qualitative Mathematics @OpenAI Ex: @DeepMind Hae sententiae verbaque mihi soli sunt

#142

Taco Cohen

@TacoCohen

RESEARCH ENGINEER463 AI 1000 followers3.718 gravity

Slop janitor & post-trainologer at Meta / FAIR. Into codegen, RL, equivariance. Spent time at Qualcomm, Scyfer (acquired), UvA, Deepmind, OpenAI.

#156

Nathan Lambert

@natolambert

RESEARCH ENGINEER519 AI 1000 followers3.658 gravity

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

#157

Horace He

@cHHillee

RESEARCH ENGINEER475 AI 1000 followers3.651 gravity

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

#158

David Dohan

@dmdohan

RESEARCH ENGINEER432 AI 1000 followers3.650 gravity

reducing perplexity @openai | past: probabilistic programs, proteins, science & reasoning @ google brain 🧠

#164

Aäron van den Oord

@avdnoord

RESEARCH ENGINEER368 AI 1000 followers3.620 gravity

Lead of the GenMedia team working on Veo, Imagen, Genie, Nano Banana, ... Research Scientist @ DeepMind

#172

Behnam Neyshabur

@bneyshabur

RESEARCH ENGINEER461 AI 1000 followers3.573 gravity

something new 💼 Past: Co-leading AI Scientist effort @AnthropicAI (Discovery team), Gemini @GoogleDeepMind (Co-led Blueshift team) 🎒Traveling & Bac...

#184

Chelsea Sierra Voss

@csvoss

RESEARCH ENGINEER304 AI 1000 followers3.515 gravity

engineeress ✨ Member of Technical Staff @openai // serious play // past @pilothq, @sendwaveapp, @khanacademy, CS/math @MIT, 2x IBO gold

#206

Irwan Bello

@IrwanBello

RESEARCH ENGINEER324 AI 1000 followers3.414 gravity

Supercomputers & Friends, AI & Science. Founding team & Research Lead at @reflection_ai. Past: @OpenAI, Founding team @character_ai, Google Brain

#208

typedfemale

@typedfemale

RESEARCH ENGINEER355 AI 1000 followers3.405 gravity

a really exciting new account "advanced pytorch user" - @cHHillee alt: @typedalt

#209

Joanne Jang

@joannejang

RESEARCH ENGINEER364 AI 1000 followers3.400 gravity

trying to automate myself @coreautoai // prev: model behavior & labs @openai

#218

Noam Shazeer

@NoamShazeer

RESEARCH ENGINEER377 AI 1000 followers3.361 gravity

Engineer

#222

Prafulla Dhariwal

@prafdhar

RESEARCH ENGINEER359 AI 1000 followers3.348 gravity

Technical fellow @OpenAI. Co-creator of GPT-4o, GPT-3, DALL-E 2, Jukebox, Glow, PPO. Previously @MIT '17

#225

David Luan

@jluan

RESEARCH ENGINEER339 AI 1000 followers3.340 gravity

retired!! former cofounder of @adeptailabs, vp engineering @openai and @amazon, and @google LLMs lead. all about type II fun.

#229

Karina

@karinanguyen

RESEARCH ENGINEER379 AI 1000 followers3.324 gravity

building @thoughtfullab, prev. AI research & product @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @maisonagi (side proj)

#230

rapha

@rapha_gl

RESEARCH ENGINEER324 AI 1000 followers3.321 gravity

making models programmable @ openai

#236

Denny Zhou

@denny_zhou

RESEARCH ENGINEER382 AI 1000 followers3.286 gravity

Build LLM to reason

#240

will depue

@willdepue

RESEARCH ENGINEER373 AI 1000 followers3.269 gravity

retired ex @openai (sora 1 & 2, posttraining o3/4o, pretraining moonshots)

#242

Yi Tay

@YiTayML

RESEARCH ENGINEER401 AI 1000 followers3.268 gravity

research scientist @googledeepmind ✨♊, model co-lead/captain of gemini deepthink imo gold medal 🥇, opinions are my own.

#243

Sebastian Raschka

@rasbt

RESEARCH ENGINEER399 AI 1000 followers3.265 gravity

ML/AI research engineer. Ex stats professor. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D) & reasoning (https://m...

#246

Jonathan Frankle

@jefrankle

RESEARCH ENGINEER438 AI 1000 followers3.258 gravity

Chief AI Scientist @databricks via MosaicML. e/brick

#247

Aditya Ramesh

@model_mechanic

RESEARCH ENGINEER359 AI 1000 followers3.252 gravity

VP Robotics @OpenAI

#250

kipply

@kipperrii

RESEARCH ENGINEER297 AI 1000 followers3.245 gravity

"uncanny ability to be mentioned in every slack thread about code that's mysteriously breaking" - claude

#252

Shengjia Zhao

@shengjia_zhao

RESEARCH ENGINEER381 AI 1000 followers3.235 gravity

Chief Scientist @ Meta MSL. Formerly MTS @ OpenAI, PhD @ Stanford. I train models. All opinions my own.

#256

Thang Luong

@lmthang

RESEARCH ENGINEER343 AI 1000 followers3.220 gravity

Director, lead Superhuman Reasoning @GoogleDeepMind. AI IMO Gold. Co-led #Aletheia, #DeepThink, #AlphaGeometry, #Bard (now Gemini) Multimodality, #...

#272

Devi Parikh

@deviparikh

RESEARCH ENGINEER340 AI 1000 followers3.170 gravity

Co-CEO @yutori_ai. https://yutori.com. Previously: Senior Director, GenAI & FAIR at Meta, Associate Professor at Georgia Tech.

#282

Gabriel Synnaeve

@syhw

RESEARCH ENGINEER317 AI 1000 followers3.139 gravity

Nerd & Dad. RL & CodeGen research since before it was cool.

#290

Clément Farabet

@clmt

RESEARCH ENGINEER254 AI 1000 followers3.115 gravity

AI @ Google DeepMind (Gemini, Gemma & Beyond). Ex NVIDIA (self-driving cars, http://rapids.ai), Twitter (founded Cortex), MadBits (founded+sold) 🇺🇸🇫🇷

#310

Rowan Zellers

@rown

RESEARCH ENGINEER345 AI 1000 followers3.059 gravity

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

#311

Yuhuai (Tony) Wu

@Yuhu_ai_

RESEARCH ENGINEER336 AI 1000 followers3.057 gravity

know thyself. co-founder @xai.

#317

Boris Power

@BorisMPower

RESEARCH ENGINEER302 AI 1000 followers3.050 gravity

Head of Applied Research @OpenAI

#326

Bill Peebles

@billpeeb

RESEARCH ENGINEER306 AI 1000 followers3.038 gravity

head of sora @openai 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

#330

Theo Weber

@theophaneweber

RESEARCH ENGINEER284 AI 1000 followers3.030 gravity

Research scientist @ DeepMind; currently working on thinking/reasoning in Gemini.

#331

Rishabh Agarwal

@agarwl_

RESEARCH ENGINEER345 AI 1000 followers3.029 gravity

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

#332

Hyung Won Chung

@hwchung27

RESEARCH ENGINEER323 AI 1000 followers3.024 gravity

AI Research Scientist @Meta Superintelligence Labs. Past: @OpenAI / @Google Brain / PhD @MIT

#334

Mo Bavarian

@mobav0

RESEARCH ENGINEER289 AI 1000 followers3.013 gravity

Scaling up RL at OpenAI 🍓 Optimization and long context research before. Math PhD, MIT.

#337

Aidan McLaughlin

@aidan_mclau

RESEARCH ENGINEER324 AI 1000 followers3.010 gravity

research scientist @openai

#345

Stephen Roller

@stephenroller

RESEARCH ENGINEER259 AI 1000 followers3.000 gravity

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

#348

Dhruv Batra

@DhruvBatra_

RESEARCH ENGINEER295 AI 1000 followers2.986 gravity

Co-founder & Chief Scientist @yutori_ai. Prev: Senior Director leading FAIR Embodied AI @MetaAI and Professor @GeorgiaTech.

#352

Mostafa Dehghani

@m__dehghani

RESEARCH ENGINEER287 AI 1000 followers2.979 gravity

/google_deepmind/gemini/.

#354

Karol Hausman

@hausman_k

RESEARCH ENGINEER300 AI 1000 followers2.977 gravity

@Physical_int

#355

Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D.

@iScienceLuvr

RESEARCH ENGINEER263 AI 1000 followers2.977 gravity

#365

Hongyu Ren

@ren_hongyu

RESEARCH ENGINEER290 AI 1000 followers2.958 gravity

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

#367

Ajay Jain

@ajayj_

RESEARCH ENGINEER275 AI 1000 followers2.952 gravity

Co-founder @genmoai. Co-created denoising diffusion (DDPM), DreamFusion, Dream Fields. Ex Ph.D. @berkeley_ai, @googleai, @facebookai, @nvidiaai, @mit

#371

Adam Coates

@adampaulcoates

RESEARCH ENGINEER253 AI 1000 followers2.947 gravity

Has AI made the world better yet? Let's get on that. Director at Apple. Fmr Stanford PhD, Director Baidu SVAIL, @khoslaventures. #deeplearning #H...

#377

Sherjil Ozair

@sherjilozair

RESEARCH ENGINEER296 AI 1000 followers2.936 gravity

co-founder @ project prometheus | founder @GeneralAgentsCo | previously autopilot @tesla, deep learning @googledeepmind, phd http://mila.quebec, cs...

#379

Scott Gray

@scottgray76

RESEARCH ENGINEER254 AI 1000 followers2.935 gravity

GPU Geek at @OpenAI. I have a long standing interest in neuroscience and its application to machine learning. He/Him.

#384

Yann Dubois

@yanndubs

RESEARCH ENGINEER294 AI 1000 followers2.930 gravity

Posttraining @OpenAI | PhD @StanfordAILab

#387

andy jones

@andy_l_jones

RESEARCH ENGINEER275 AI 1000 followers2.922 gravity

engineering & research at anthropic. i don't check twitter DMs. email me!

#392

Ananya Kumar

@ananyaku

RESEARCH ENGINEER261 AI 1000 followers2.916 gravity

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

#396

Sam Schoenholz

@sschoenholz

RESEARCH ENGINEER271 AI 1000 followers2.907 gravity

@openai previously: @thinkymachines, google brain.

#405

Bryan Catanzaro

@ctnzr

RESEARCH ENGINEER246 AI 1000 followers2.899 gravity

VP, Applied Deep Learning Research @ NVIDIA

#417

Hattie Zhou

@oh_that_hat

RESEARCH ENGINEER290 AI 1000 followers2.883 gravity

I want to understand things deeply and explain them well. Building friendly AI @AnthropicAI Give me anonymous feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/...

#418

Eric

@ericmitchellai

RESEARCH ENGINEER267 AI 1000 followers2.882 gravity

chatgpt posttraining @openai. building personal agi. I like ai and music and some other stuff

#433

niki parmar

@nikiparmar09

RESEARCH ENGINEER271 AI 1000 followers2.870 gravity

Working @Anthropic. Views expressed here are my own.

#438

Isa Fulford

@isafulf

RESEARCH ENGINEER272 AI 1000 followers2.849 gravity

research @openai

#442

Rohan Pandey

@khoomeik

RESEARCH ENGINEER305 AI 1000 followers2.841 gravity

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

#445

Alex Nichol

@unixpickle

RESEARCH ENGINEER232 AI 1000 followers2.839 gravity

Code, AI, and 3D printing. Opinions are mostly my own, sometimes a computer's. Husband of @thesamnichol. Co-creator of DALL-E 2. Researcher @openai.

#452

Andrew Carr 🤸

@andrew_n_carr

RESEARCH ENGINEER309 AI 1000 followers2.830 gravity

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

#465

Songlin Yang

@SonglinYang4

RESEARCH ENGINEER262 AI 1000 followers2.816 gravity

pretraining @thinkymachines. Prev. PhD @MIT_CSAIL. she/her/hers

#467

Alexander Wei

@alexwei_

RESEARCH ENGINEER279 AI 1000 followers2.814 gravity

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

#468

Jacob Austin

@jacobaustin132

RESEARCH ENGINEER250 AI 1000 followers2.813 gravity

I sometimes do AI research. I also play piano and climb. NYC. Previously @GoogleDeepMind, @Google Brain. Opinions my own

#471

Christine McLeavey

@mcleavey

RESEARCH ENGINEER219 AI 1000 followers2.805 gravity

@openai audio team: gpt-4o, jukebox & musenet

#476

Suhail

@Suhail

RESEARCH ENGINEER258 AI 1000 followers2.797 gravity

Founder: @mixpanel Pizzatarian, engineer, music maker

#487

Julian Schrittwieser

@Mononofu

RESEARCH ENGINEER293 AI 1000 followers2.783 gravity

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic | AlphaGo, AlphaZero, MuZero, AlphaCode, AlphaTensor, AlphaProof Gemini RL Prev Principal Research Engineer ...

#492

Junyang Lin

@JustinLin610

RESEARCH ENGINEER290 AI 1000 followers2.775 gravity

❤️ 🍵 ☕️ 🍷 🥃 🍺

#493

Keller Jordan

@kellerjordan0

RESEARCH ENGINEER249 AI 1000 followers2.774 gravity

CIFAR-10 fanatic Pretraining @OpenAI OpCo LLC.

#500

kache

@yacineMTB

RESEARCH ENGINEER257 AI 1000 followers2.768 gravity

reinforcement learning, robots. prev eng @ x, stripe. 6'3 (height) working on a hardware startup with 0 funding because it's funny. subscribe to ...

#502

James Campbell

@jam3scampbell

RESEARCH ENGINEER280 AI 1000 followers2.765 gravity

post training @OpenAI

#510

🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau

@DBahdanau

RESEARCH ENGINEER242 AI 1000 followers2.760 gravity

Team member at @periodiclabs. Adjunct Prof @ McGill. Member of Mila, Quebec AI Institute. Stream of consciousness is my own.

#518

Ilya Kostrikov

@ikostrikov

RESEARCH ENGINEER218 AI 1000 followers2.750 gravity

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

#522

Jiahui Yu

@jhyuxm

RESEARCH ENGINEER244 AI 1000 followers2.748 gravity

Lead Multimodal @Meta Superintelligence Lab. Previously led Perception @OpenAI; co-led Gemini Multimodal @GoogleDeepMind.

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