Experts
Andrew Ng
Founder and CEO of Landing AI, Founder of deeplearning.ai
Andrew Ng is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who was born
on April 18, 1976, in London, UK. He earned his undergraduate
degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and
later acquired a Master's from MIT, followed by a Ph.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley. Ng is best known for his significant
contributions to the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence
(AI). He co-founded Google Brain, a deep learning project at Google,
and later joined Baidu as Chief Scientist to spearhead its AI
initiatives. He is also the co-founder of Coursera, an online education
platform. Interestingly, Ng was one of the earliest advocates of the
modern MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) model and has an
influential course on machine learning that has been taken by millions
worldwide. He has published over 100 research papers in machine
learning, robotics, and other related areas, making him one of the
most cited authors in these fields.
Demis Hassabis
Co-founder and CEO of Deep Mind
Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher,
neuroscientist, video game designer, entrepreneur, and polymath,
born on July 27, 1976, in London. He attended the University of
Cambridge, where he received a Double First in Computer Science.
Subsequently, he earned a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from
University College London. Hassabis is best known as the co-founder
and CEO of DeepMind, an AI research lab acquired by Google in
2014. The lab achieved global recognition for developing AlphaGo, a
computer program that defeated the world champion Go player,
marking a significant milestone in AI research. Demis Hassabis has a
wide range of interests and accomplishments; he was a chess
prodigy and even dabbled in video game design before fully diving
into AI and neuroscience. He has received numerous awards,
including being named in the Time 100 list of most influential people,
and has published research in high-impact journals, solidifying his
reputation as a leading figure in artificial intelligence.
Palmer Luckey
CEO Anduril Ind.
Palmer Luckey is an American entrepreneur born on September 19,
1992, in Long Beach, California. He is primarily self-taught and did
not complete a traditional college degree, dropping out from the
Journalism program at California State University. He gained
prominence as the founder of Oculus VR, a company specializing in
virtual reality hardware and software products. Oculus is best known
for developing the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that gained
significant attention and investment. Facebook acquired Oculus VR in
2014 for approximately $2 billion, catapulting Luckey into the spotlight
as a significant player in the tech industry. Aside from his work in
virtual reality, Luckey also founded Anduril Industries, a tech company
focused on developing advanced defense technology. He has a
passion for tinkering with electronics from a young age and using the
money he earned from repairing iPhones to fund the initial
development of the Oculus Rift. His work has made a considerable
impact on both the virtual reality and defense sectors.
Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor, born on April 22, 1985, in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Stanford University but dropped out after just a few years to pursue his entrepreneurial interests. Altman first gained recognition as the co-founder of Loopt, a location-based social networking company. He is also known for his role as the president of Y Combinator. Under his leadership, Y Combinator expanded its reach and influence significantly.
In 2019, Altman took on the role of co-chairman of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research lab. He is now the CEO of OpenAI and leading the field of deploying safe AI. He has been an influential voice in the tech community, advocating for responsible AI development and broader access to economic opportunity. He is outspoken on topics like universal basic income and the future of technology.
Emad Mostaque
Founder and Former CEO of Stablilty AI - Makers of Stable Diffusion
Emad Mostaque, aged 40, is an Oxford graduate with a noteworthy career in the finance sector, having spent a decade working for hedge funds in the UK. Diagnosed with Asperger's, his unique perspective has contributed to his professional success. Mostaque is highly regarded for his insights into macroeconomics, geopolitics, and markets. In addition to his career in hedge funds, he is also known for his role as the CEO of Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion.
Emad left Stability AI as a CEO and the seat of the board of directors at Stability to pursue decentralized AI. This is a good video showing his thoughts (2.5 hours long).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se91Pn3xxSs
Peter Diamandis
ENTREPRENEUR
Peter H. Diamandis is an American entrepreneur, engineer, and author, born on May 20, 1961, in The Bronx, New York. He holds degrees in Molecular Genetics and Aerospace Engineering from MIT, as well as an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Diamandis is perhaps best known for founding the X Prize Foundation in 1994. The Ansari X Prize for suborbital space travel was one of the foundation's most publicized competitions, ultimately won by SpaceShipOne in 2004. Diamandis is also the co-founder of several other organizations and companies, including Singularity University, Human Longevity Inc., and Planetary Resources, among others. His work primarily focuses on the utilization of exponential technologies and crowd-sourced innovation to address humanity's grand challenges. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work, including the Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization. Diamandis is also a prolific author and speaker, advocating for a future shaped by innovation and bold thinking.
Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist at Meta (Facebook)
Yann is the Chief AI Scientist for Facebook AI Research (FAIR), joining Facebook in December 2013. He is also a Silver Professor at New York University on a part-time basis, mainly affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science, and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of AAAI, the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award, the 2015 IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Distinguished Researcher Award, the 2016 Lovie Award for Lifetime Achievement, the University of Pennsylvania Pender Award, and received honorary doctorates from IPN, Mexico and EPFL. He is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award (with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio) for "conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing."
Ian Goodfellow
Machine Learning Reseach Scientist
Ian Goodfellow is a prominent figure in the field of machine learning
and artificial intelligence, particularly known for his work on
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). He introduced the concept
of GANs in 2014, a groundbreaking framework that allows for the
generation of complex data distributions, such as images, by training
two neural networks in a competitive setup. This has had a profound impact on various applications, including image synthesis, data augmentation, and unsupervised learning. Goodfellow has also contributed to other areas of deep learning, such as semi-supervised learning and adversarial training. He earned his Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal and has held positions at companies like Google, OpenAI, and Apple. Currently, He is a research scientist at DeepMind. His work has been recognized with numerous awards and he is often invited to speak at major conferences, making him a
key influencer in the advancement of modern AI technologies.
Mira Murati
CTO of OpenAI
Mira Murati (born 1988) is an Albanian mechanical engineer,
researcher and business executive. She is currently the chief
technology officer of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research
company that develops ChatGPT.
At the age of 16, she left Albania to attend and graduate from
Pearson College UWC. Later, she graduated from Thayer School of
Engineering at Dartmouth College in 2012 with a Bachelor of
Engineering degree in mechanical engineering.
Murati started her career as an intern at Goldman Sachs in 2011, and
worked at Zodiac Aerospace from 2012 to 2013. She spent three
years at Tesla as a senior product manager of Model X before joining
Leap Motion. She then joined OpenAI in 2018, later becoming its
chief technology officer, where she leads the company's work on
ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Codex. Her responsibilities include oversight of
the company's research, product and safety teams. She is an
advocate for the regulation of AI.
Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science Stanford University
Fei-Fei Li, a luminary in AI and computer
science, has contributed immensely to
cognitively inspired AI, deep learning, and
computer vision through her roles at Stanford
and Google, with significant works such as
ImageNet, while championing diversity and
inclusion in AI through her non-profit, AI4ALL.
Ilya Sutskever
Former Chief Scientist of OpenAI
Ilya Sutskever has had a lasting impact on
machine learning through his research. Before
OpenAI, he worked at Google Brain and
completed his Ph.D. at the University of
Toronto. Known for developing sequence-to-sequence models, Sutskever is a highly
influential figure in the AI community, with
numerous awards and high-profile publications
to his name. He left OpenAI in May
2024 to work on new projects.
Andrej Karpathy
Former Senior Director of AI at Tesla
Andrej Karpathy, former head of Tesla's
Autopilot AI, has made notable contributions to
deep learning and computer vision at OpenAI,
Google, and Stanford, and maintains a
significant influence in the AI community
through his academic teaching, blogging, and
curation of the Arxiv machine learning
repository. He joined OpenAI in 2023 again and left in 2024. He currently works on educational projects.
Greg Brockman
Co-founder of OpenAI
Greg Brockman, CTO and co-founder of
OpenAI, previously served as Stripe's CTO. He
is a leading voice in AI ethics and is known for
shaping OpenAI's responsible AI development
charter. His influence extends across both
technical and ethical aspects of AI, making him
a key figure in the field.
Dawn Song
Professor University of California, Berkeley
Dawn Song is a computer science professor,
recognized for her contributions to cybersecurity
and AI. She is a faculty member at the
University of California, Berkeley, in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences for more than 16 years. She
has received numerous awards and honors for
her research. She is the founder of Oasis Labs.
Pieter Abbeel
Director of Machine Learning at Apple
Pieter Abbeel is an influential figure in the field
of machine learning, robotics, and AI. Pieter
Abbeel received his Ph.D. from Stanford
University and has been affiliated with the
University of California, Berkeley. He is a
co-founder of Gradescope and Covariant.ai.He
worked as a research scientist at OpenAI and is
an investment partner at AIX Ventures.
Yoshua Bengio
Deep Learning leading expert
Yoshua Bengio is a Full Professor (30+ years) in
the Department of Computer Science and
Operations Research at Université de Montreal,
as well as the Founder and Scientific Director
of Mila and the Scientific Director of IVADO. He
is the recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award
with Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun, known as
the Nobel Prize of computing.
Jeremy Howard
Founding Researcher at fast.ai
Jeremy Howard, an entrepreneur and founding
researcher at fast.ai, has significantly
contributed to making deep learning more
accessible, and notably founded Enlitic, the first company to apply deep learning to
medicine, improving diagnostic accuracy and
speed; he has also played key roles at
McKinsey & Company, FastMail, and Kaggle.
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, a Carnegie Mellon
professor and former Director of AI Research
at Apple, is known for advancing statistical
machine learning, deep learning, and
large-scale optimization, earning numerous
accolades for his work.
Yuanqing Lin
CEO & Founder of Aibee
Yuanqing Lin is a deep learning expert based
in China. He got his PhD from University of
Pennsylvania. He has worked with NEC
laboratories America. He was the head of
research at Baidu. Since 2017, he has been
the founder and CEO of Aibee where he is
working on inegration of AI with robotics.
Geoffrey Hinton
Computer Science Professor at University of Toronto
Geoffrey Hinton, a leading cognitive
psychologist and computer scientist, has
revolutionized artificial neural networks and
deep learning, working with Google Brain and
the University of Toronto, and co-developed the
influential AlexNet, earning him the Turing
Award title.
Alex Smola
Director, Amazon Web Services
Alex Smola, Director of Machine Learning at
Amazon Web Services, focuses on deep
learning, algorithm scalability, and statistical
modelling with over 200 authored papers. With
a history of working with tech giants like
Google and Yahoo, he helps build AI and
Machine Learning tools for Amazon and seeks
new talent in the field.
Rana el Kaliouby
CEO and Co-Founder of Affectiva
Rana el Kaliouby is the CEO of Affectiva,
where she leads AI development focusing on
emotional intelligence. She is an alumna of
MIT and Cambridge University, and promotes
ethical AI practices.
Daphne Koller
Co-Founder of Coursera, Founder and CEO of insitro.
Daphne Koller is a Stanford Professor and
co-founder of Coursera, a pioneering MOOC
platform. She applies AI in biomedical sciences
and was recognized as one of Time
magazine’s 100 most influential people in
2012. She later joined Calico as chief
computing officer and founded a drug
discovery startup, Insitro, in 2018.
Kai-Fu Lee
CEO of Yi-01.AI
Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese businessman, computer scientist, investor, and writer. He is currently based in Beijing, China. did his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University and has been part of Google, Apple and Microsoft. He is the author of several books including "AI Superpowers" and "AI 2041".
Jonathan Mayer
Cheif AI Officer of US Justice Department
Jonathan Mayer works on intra-departmental and cross-agency efforts on AI and adjacent issues. He leads the Justice Department’s newly established Emerging Technology Board. He is also an assistant professor at Princeton University. Mayer holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.