David Brandfonbrener @brandfonbrener.bsky.social Research scientist at Meta on the llama team
Thinking about language models
Past: PhD at NYU, fellow at Harvard’s Kempner Institute
Jeff Smith @jeffsmith.tech Building C Proof: https://cproof.ai/ Researching and writing:
https://www.jeffsmith.tech/
Yoshinari Fujinuma @akkikiki.bsky.social Member of Technical Staff@Cantina Labs (NYC);
CS PhD @CUBoulder;
Posts are my own;
Website: https://akkikiki.github.io/
Substack: http://substack.com/@akkikiki
Lived: 🇹🇭🇯🇵🇫🇷🇺🇸
Posts: JA/EN
Amanda M. Buch, Ph.D. @amandambuch.bsky.social Neuroscientist, AI/ML Engineer & Classical Visual Artist | Comp. Psychiatry & Neurodev. 🧠✨🎨
SFARI Fellows-to-Faculty | Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Leading Edge Fellow | NASEM/Ford Fellow
Weill Cornell Medicine & Columbia University
www.amandabuch.com
Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social https://www.vita-group.space/ 👨🏫 UT Austin ML Professor (on leave)
https://www.xtxmarkets.com/ 🏦 XTX Markets Research Director (NYC AI Lab)
Superpower is trying everything 🪅
Newest focus: training next-generation super intelligence - Preview above 👶
Kim Stachenfeld, PhD @neurokim.bsky.social Neuro + AI Research Scientist at DeepMind; Affiliate Professor at Columbia Center for Theoretical Neuroscience.
Likes studying learning+memory, hippocampi, and other things brains have and do, too.
she/her.
Carl Vondrick @cvondrick.bsky.social Professor at Columbia. Computer Vision and Machine Learning 
Arya McCarthy @aryamccarthy.bsky.social nlp • senior rs @ google • ex google, fb, duolingo, scaled cognition w/Dan Klein • phd johns hopkins • translation • morphology • actual computational linguistics
Philip Bontrager @pbontrager.bsky.social AI researcher & engineer @Meta working on @PyTorch torchtune in NYC; interests in generative models, RL, and evolutionary strategies
💻 https://github.com/pbontrager 📝 https://tinyurl.com/philips-papers
Jacob Portes @jacobianneuro.bsky.social Research Scientist @MosaicMLxDatabricks. I like it when neuroscience inspires AI 🧠+🖥️
Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social Musician, math lover, cook, dancer, 🏳️🌈, and an ass prof of Computer Science at New York University
Brandon Amos @bdamos.bsky.social 🧙🏻♀️ scientist at Meta NYC | http://bamos.github.io
Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains technomancer, nyc. 5'6"
👁️🏳️⚧️ can be trusted with knowledge
writings @ https://strange.domains
Mahi Shafiullah @notmahi.bsky.social Building generally intelligent robots that *just work* everywhere, out of the box, at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) and Meta FAIR.
Previously at NYU Courant, MIT and visiting researcher at Meta AI.
https://mahis.life/
Joan Bruna @joanbruna.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, Data Science and Mathematics (aff), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Data Science, New York University. Visiting Scholar at Flatiron Institute. 
Jorge Mendez-Mendez @jmendezm.bsky.social Embodied lifelong learning (compositionality, RL, TAMP, robotics). Assistant Professor at Stony Brook ECE. Postdoc at MIT CSAIL, PhD from GRASP lab at Penn.
https://jorge-a-mendez.github.io
Michael Galkin @mgalkin.bsky.social Research Scientist @ Google. Prev: Intel, Postdoc @mila-quebec.bsky.social & McGill.
GraphML, GNNs, Geometric DL, Knowledge Graphs.
Grandmaster of 80's music (according to Spotify)
Shivam Raval @sraval.bsky.social Physics, Visualization and AI PhD @ Harvard | Embedding visualization and LLM interpretability | Love pretty visuals, math, physics and pets | Currently into manifolds
Wanna meet and chat? Book a meeting here: https://zcal.co/shivam-raval
Yann LeCun @yann-lecun.bsky.social Professor a NYU; Executive Chairman at AMI Labs..
Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc.
ACM Turing Award Laureate.
http://yann.lecun.com
Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social VP and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research NYC. AI evaluation and measurement, responsible AI, computational social science, machine learning. She/her.
One photo a day since January 2018: https://www.instagram.com/logisticaggression/
Yufang Hou @yufanghou.bsky.social Professor for Natural Language Processing at IT:U - Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria; research scientist at IBM Research. Views are my own.
Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com Quantum factotum @ IBM.
https://arxiv.org/a/bishop_l_1.html | https://research.ibm.com/people/lev-bishop | https://github.com/levbishop
Mikhail Yurochkin @m-yurochkin.bsky.social Research manager. Statistical Large Language Modeling, MIT-IBM AI Lab, IBM Research. Stats PhD @UMich.
Samantha @samantha.wiki 🌐 https://samantha.wiki
🏢 IBM Quantum
🔧 Probably tinkering
🔥 We can just do things
Tim Bonnemann @planspark.bsky.social Community architect/builder/special ops. Founder and chief vibe coder (stealth). San José, CA. Wannabe trail runner. German native. Vive l’Europe! Skeets my own, etc. #opensource #community #criminaljustice #learningspanish
Matteo Manica @matteo-manica.bsky.social Research Scientist at @IBMResearch | Interested in AI and machine learning applications to science | Views are my own
Veronika Thost @vthost.bsky.social Researcher @IBMResearch @MITIBMLab #GraphLearning #LLMs
Ben Hoover @bhoov.bsky.social PhD student@GA Tech; Research Engineer @IBM Research. Thinking about Associative Memory, Hopfield Networks, and AI.
Hyo Jin (Gina) Do @dohyojin.bsky.social Research Scientist @ IBM Research, Cambridge (MA), US
Burkhard Ringlein @0xcaffee.bsky.social AI systems researcher @ IBM Research | loves #OpenSource | Critical Rationalist | #Nerd | #SciFi | all views are my own | RT ≠ approval | https://0xcaffee.blog
Kush Varshney कुश वार्ष्णेय @krvarshney.bsky.social I wrote a book.
Free pdf: http://trustworthymachinelearning.com
Paperback: http://amazon.com/dp/B09SL5GPCD
Posts are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM.
Gokul Swamy @gokul.dev PhD student at @cmurobotics.bsky.social working on efficient algorithms for interactive learning (e.g. imitation / RL / RLHF). no model is an island. prefers email. https://gokul.dev/. on the job market!
Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, interested in multiagent reinforcement learning, game theory, games, and search/planning.
Lover of Linux 🐧, coffee ☕, and retro gaming. Big fan of open-source. #gohabsgo 🇨🇦
For more info: https://linktr.ee/sharky6000
Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @rasbt.bsky.social ML/AI researcher & former stats professor turned LLM research engineer. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D) & reasoning (https://mng.bz/Nwr7).
Also blogging about AI research at magazine.sebastianraschka.com.
Valentina Pyatkin @valentinapy.bsky.social Postdoc in AI at the Allen Institute for AI & the University of Washington.
🌐 https://valentinapy.github.io
Miguel Alonso Jr. @miguelalonsojr.bsky.social Building generally intelligent agents - ML, RL, Robotics
Lewis Tunstall @lewtun.bsky.social 🤗 LLM whisperer @huggingface
📖 Co-author of "NLP with Transformers" book
💥 Ex-particle physicist
🤘 Occasional guitarist
🇦🇺 in 🇨🇭
Arthur Câmara @abcamara.com Applied #IR & #NLP Research @zeta-alpha.bsky.social, making search good.
CS PhD @tudelft. Former @naverlabseurope.bsky.social, @bloomberg.com
CNF✈️AMS
Suzan Verberne @suzanv.bsky.social 1980 | Professor of Natural Language Processing, @LIACS @UniLeiden | Lives in #Nijmegen | Mother of 2 | 👩🏻💻👩🏻🏫🤹♀️🌱 🎼
Maria Khalusova @mariak.bsky.social Always growing, she/her, RAG builder, LLM whisperer, tech generalist
@ekanou.bsky.social @ekanou.bsky.social 
@roxpetcu.bsky.social @roxpetcu.bsky.social Mechanistic Interpretability for Retrieval and Reasoning. PhD student at IRLab Amsterdam 🌧️
Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social Zeta Alpha: A smarter way to discover and organize knowledge in AI and beyond. R&D in Neural Search. Papers and Trends in AI. Enjoy Discovery!
Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
leonie @iamleonie.bsky.social I do Machine Learning at Weaviate and write about it on the internet.
Orion Weller @orionweller.bsky.social PhD Student at Johns Hopkins University. Previously: Allen Institute for AI, Apple, Samaya AI. Research for #NLProc #IR
Antoine Chaffin @nohtow.bsky.social 27, French CS Engineer 💻, PhD in ML 🎓🤖 — Guiding generative models for better synthetic data and building multimodal representations @LightOn
Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com Sentence Transformers, SetFit & NLTK maintainer
Machine Learning Engineer at 🤗 Hugging Face
Sewon Min @sewonm.bsky.social UC Berkeley/BAIR, AI2 || Prev: UWNLP, Meta/FAIR || sewonmin.com
Vaibhav @vaibhavadlakha.bsky.social PhD candidate @Mila and @McGill
Interested in interplay of knowledge and language
Love being outdoors!
Xing Han Lu @xhluca.bsky.social 👨🍳 Web Agents @mila-quebec.bsky.social
🎒 @mcgill-nlp.bsky.social
Parishad BehnamGhader @parishadbehnam.bsky.social PhD student at McGill University and Mila — Quebec AI Institute
Siva Reddy @sivareddyg.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Mila-Quebec.bsky.social
Co-Director @McGill-NLP.bsky.social
Researcher @ServiceNow.bsky.social
Alumni: @StanfordNLP.bsky.social, EdinburghNLP
Natural Language Processor #NLProc
Marius Mosbach @mariusmosbach.bsky.social #NLP Postdoc at Mila - Quebec AI Institute & McGill University
mariusmosbach.com
Doug Turnbull @softwaredoug.bsky.social Search at Reddit, formerly Shopify and OpenSource Connections. Helped write Relevant Search / AI Powered Search
http://softwaredoug.com
Eugene Yan @eugeneyan.com RecSys, AI, Engineering; Principal Applied Scientist @ Amazon. Led ML @ Alibaba, Lazada, Healthtech Series A. Writing @ eugeneyan.com, aiteratelabs.com.
Dinos Papakostas @din0s.me 🧠 neural IR 📋 model evals 🏋️ lifting weights
Incredibly optimistic about the future!
𝕏: din0s_ / din0s.me
@n0riskn0r3ward.bsky.social @n0riskn0r3ward.bsky.social 
Yoshitomo Matsubara @yoshitomo-matsubara.net Sr. Research Scientist at Yahoo! / ML OSS developer
PhD in Computer Science at UC Irvine
Research: ML, NLP, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval
EiC: TMLR
Technical Chair: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, WACV
Open Source/Science matters
https://yoshitomo-matsubara.net
Glasgow IR Group @irglasgow.bsky.social Glasgow Information Retrieval Group at the University of Glasgow
Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social PhD researcher (Recommender Systems) @TerrierTeam, University of Glasgow.
Ex. Senior Software Engineer @Amazon
The opinions are mine.
@macavaney.bsky.social @macavaney.bsky.social 
Hossein (Saeed) Rahmani @rahmanidashti.bsky.social PhD at UCL
David Graus @graus.nu Assistant Professor in AI (Information Retrieval and NLP) at ILLC, @uva.nl & ICAI @opengov.nl Lab Manager | PhD from @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social | Treasurer @setuputrecht.bsky.social | Commissie Persoonsgegevens Amsterdam | @aiog.net | @zwaailicht.nl
@craigmacdonald.bsky.social @craigmacdonald.bsky.social 
andriy @andriymulyar.bsky.social letting humans touch latent space at nomic
Leo Boytsov @srchvrs.bsky.social Machine learning scientist and engineer speaking πtorch & C++ (ph-D CMU) working on (un)natural language processing, speaking πtorch & C++. Opinions sampled from MY OWN 100T param LM.
Omar Khattab @lateinteraction.bsky.social Incoming asst professor at MIT EECS, Fall 2025. Research scientist at Databricks. CS PhD @StanfordNLP.bsky.social. Author of ColBERT.ai & DSPy.ai.
Charlie Clarke @claclarke.bsky.social Here for the IR laughs and the NLP fun
Yifei Yuan @yfyuan01.bsky.social Postdoc at Swiss Data Science Center, ETH & guest researcher @coastalcph | previous @CUHK Text Mining Group, working on NLP & IR
Jack McKechnie @jackmckechnie.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow.
Mounia Lalmas @mounialalmas.bsky.social Research @ Spotify
https://mounia-lalmas.blog/mounia-lalmas/
Thomas Jaenich @tjaenich.bsky.social PhD student @uogterrierteam.bsky.social, University of Glasgow.
Ferdinand Schlatt @fschlatt.bsky.social PhD Student, efficient and effective neural IR models 🧠🔎
Lukas Gienapp @lgnp.bsky.social AI engineer @ Seltz; ML/IR research @ hessianAI / ScaDS.AI.
Maik Fröbe @maik-froebe.bsky.social PhD-Student in the webis.de group. Interested in IR and NLP.
Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x2.
🏡 https://md.ekstrandom.net
🧪 https://inertial.science
Frank T. Hopfgartner @hopfgartner.bsky.social Researcher interested in information retrieval, recommender systems, data science. General chair of ACM #cikm2023 and ACM #chiir2024
Fernando Diaz @841io.bsky.social Associate Professor, CMU. Researcher, Google. Evaluation and design of information retrieval and recommendation systems, including their societal impacts.
Ralf Schenkel @ralfschenkel.bsky.social Professor at Trier University, interested in databases, information retrieval, semantic web, bibliographic information systems.
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social Information Retrieval Researcher ✊🏽🍉🕊️ | Pronouns: He/him
Homepage: https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/
Martin Potthast @martin-potthast.com Professor at the University of Kassel, https://hessian.AI, and https://ScaDS.AI. Member of @webis.de
Research in information retrieval #IR, natural language processing #NLP, and artificial intelligence.
Damiano Spina @damianospina.com PhD in Computer Science. Information Retrieval, Human-AI Cooperation, Evaluation.
@rmitcomputing.bsky.social | @admscentre.org.au | @internetobservatory.org.au
🤸🏼♂️Contramestre Camaleão, Capoeira ACDP.
🪘Percussionist @ Wombatuque
📍Naarm, AU
David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social Information retrieval, recommender systems and generative modelling. PhD Candidate at IRLab Amsterdam, supervised by Maarten de Rijke & Harrie Oosterhuis.
Remzi Celebi @rcelebi.bsky.social Working on #knowledgegraphs #LLMs #datacuration #bioinformatics #neurosymbolicAI #dataquality Assistant Professor at Maastricht University
Abubakar Abid @abidlabs.hf.co Democratizing machine learning through Gradio, acquired by Hugging Face 🤗
Pedro Madruga @pedromadruga.com I build AI teams and ship AI products • I write about it at pedromadruga.com/neesletter
In 🇩🇰 since 2012.
Opinions are my own.
Neal Parikh @nparikh.org https://nparikh.org
Ahmed Alaa @amalaa.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley and UCSF.
Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare. https://alaalab.berkeley.edu/ 
Eunsol Choi @eunsol.bsky.social assistant professor in computer science / data science at NYU. studying natural language processing and machine learning. 
Dylan Foster 🐢 @djfoster.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor in EECS and Statistics at UC Berkeley.
Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research NE/NYC. Previously @ MIT, Cornell.
AI + RL Foundations. RL Theory Lecture Notes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16730
http://dylanfoster.net
Omar Shaikh @oshaikh.bsky.social Ph.D. Student at Stanford HCI/NLP
oshaikh.com
interested in: ice cream, drinking coffee / chai, complaining, (conversational) grounding, human-ai interaction
Rose E Wang @rewang.bsky.social https://cs.stanford.edu/~rewang
AI & Education ✨ On academic+industry job market. CS PhD @stanfordnlp
prev: MIT 2020, Google Brain, Google Brain Robotics,
@allen_ai
Graham Neubig @gneubig.bsky.social Associate professor at CMU, studying natural language processing and machine learning. Co-founder All Hands AI
Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social Information and updates about RLC 2026 at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from August 15 to 18.
https://rl-conference.cc
Daniel Vila @dvilasuero.hf.co Everything datasets and human feedback for AI at Hugging Face.
Prev: co-founder and CEO of Argilla (acquired by Hugging Face)
@asaf-yehudai.bsky.social @asaf-yehudai.bsky.social 
Harsha Kokel @kokel.bsky.social AI and Sequential Decision Making @ IBM Research, San Jose.
New mom.
Kate Blair (she/her) @kayellbe.bsky.social Making disruptive tech useful @ IBM Research
Views are very much my own