Artificial intelligence

Andrew Ng

AI educator who co-founded Google Brain and Coursera

Born 1976

Andrew Barto

Co-founder of modern reinforcement learning

Alexandr Wang

Founder of Scale AI and Meta’s chief AI officer

Alex Krizhevsky

Creator of AlexNet, the network that launched the deep-learning boom

Kai-Fu Lee

Taiwanese AI pioneer and investor who led Google China and founded 01.AI

Born 1961

Jürgen Schmidhuber

German AI researcher whose lab co-invented the LSTM neural network

Born 1963

Joseph Weizenbaum

MIT computer scientist who created ELIZA and became a critic of AI

1923 – 2008

Jim Keller

Chip architect behind AMD’s Zen, Apple’s A-series and Tesla’s self-driving chip

Jeff Dean

Google engineer behind MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and Gemini

Born 1968

Tom Siebel

Founder of Siebel Systems and C3.ai

Born 1952

Timnit Gebru

AI ethics researcher who founded the DAIR Institute

Sepp Hochreiter

German computer scientist who co-invented LSTM and xLSTM

Born 1967

Richard S. Sutton

Canadian-American scientist who founded modern reinforcement learning

Noam Shazeer

Co-author of the transformer paper and co-founder of Character.AI

Ilya Sutskever

Deep-learning researcher who co-founded OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence

Born 1986

Ian Goodfellow

Inventor of generative adversarial networks (GANs)

Frank Rosenblatt

Psychologist who invented the perceptron, an early learning neural network

1928 – 1971

Edward Feigenbaum

Stanford scientist known as the father of expert systems

Born 1936

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder of DeepMind and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold

Born 1976

David Silver

British researcher who led AlphaGo and AlphaZero

Arvind Krishna

Indian-American chairman and CEO of IBM

Andrej Karpathy

AI researcher and educator who led Tesla’s Autopilot vision and co-founded OpenAI

Born 1986

Allen Newell

AI and cognitive-science pioneer who co-created the first reasoning programs

1927 – 1992

Adam Cheyer

Co-founder of Siri and Viv Labs