Marco Cuturi @marcocuturi.bsky.social machine learning researcher @ Apple machine learning research 
Mathieu Alain @miniapeur.bsky.social Gradient surfer at UCL. FR, EN, also trying ES. ๐น๐ผ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ด๐ซ๐ท๐ช๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฆ. Also on Twitter.
Csaba Szepesvari @skiandsolve.bsky.social โท๏ธ ML Theorist carving equations and mountain trails | ๐ดโโ๏ธ Biker, Climber, Adventurer | ๐ง Reinforcement Learning: Always seeking higher peaks, steeper walls and better policies.
https://ualberta.ca/~szepesva
Xiaoxuan @xiaoxuanlei.bsky.social CompNeuro & AI โค๏ธ
FutureToBeBlackBoxBreaker๐ป
PhD candidate @McGill et @Mila
Deniz Oktay @denizzokt.bsky.social ๐ || ESM3 || Princeton PhD || MIT BS/MEng || former ai resident @google, intern @nvidia || Bay Area native
Brett Larsen @brettlarsen.bsky.social Research Scientist @ Databricks Mosaic Research
Efficient AI + math of data science
bwlarsen.github.io
Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social https://www.vita-group.space/ ๐จโ๐ซ UT Austin ML Professor (on leave)
https://www.xtxmarkets.com/ ๐ฆ XTX Markets Research Director (NYC AI Lab)
Superpower is trying everything ๐ช
Newest focus: training next-generation super intelligence - Preview above ๐ถ
Neal Parikh @nparikh.org https://nparikh.org
Konstantin Mishchenko @konstmish.bsky.social Research Scientist at Meta Paris
Code generation, math, optimization
Aurelien Lucchi @alucchi.bsky.social Researcher in optimization and theoretical machine learning. Assistant professor at the University of Basel. Past: EPFL, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) ๐จ๐ญ
Sham Kakade @shamkakade.bsky.social Harvard Professor.
ML and AI.
Co-director of the Kempner Institute.
https://shamulent.github.io
Pierre Marion @pierremarion.bsky.social Research Faculty at Inria, working on the theory of deep learning and AI for maths. NeurIPS 2026 Satellite Chair for Paris. Previously Polytechnique, Sorbonne Universitรฉ, EPFL.
Daniel Csillag @dccsillag.xyz Applied mathematician working on machine learning, statistics and compilers. Currently doing research at FGV EMAp.
dccsillag.xyz
Md Rifat Arefin @rarefin.bsky.social PhD Candidate Mila/University of Montreal | Intern at Amazon | Ex. ServiceNow, Recursion, UpStride | Researching to understand how Deep Learning works
https://rarefin.github.io
Peter Richtarik @richtarik.bsky.social Professor of CS and Math @ KAUST. Interested in Optimization for Machine Learning. Federated learning guru. Likes ๐๐๏ธโโ๏ธ๐พ๐โท๏ธโธ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐คฟ๐น๐ธโ๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ทโ๏ธ๐๐
๐ฅโ๏ธ
Thiago Serra @thserra.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Iowa, formerly at Bucknell University, mathematical optimizer with an #orms PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, curious about scaling up constraint learning, proud father of two
Henry Gouk @handle.invalid Assistant Professor (Lecturer) and RAEng Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ. Working on Verifiable AI.
henrygouk.com
Andrew Saxe @saxelab.bsky.social Professor at the Gatsby Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, trying to figure out how we learn
Eran Malach @emalach.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Kempner Institute, Harvard University
Theory of Deep Learning / Learning of Deep Theory
Gintare Karolina Dziugaite @gkdziugaite.bsky.social Sr Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, Toronto. Member, Mila. Adjunct, McGill CS. PhD Machine Learning & MASt Applied Math (Cambridge), BSc Math (Warwick). gkdz.org 
Ananya Kumar @ananyak.bsky.social Research scientist at OpenAI working on reasoning and RL. Previously PhD student at Stanford University working with Percy Liang and Tengyu Ma.
Vaishnavh Nagarajan @vaishnavh.bsky.social Foundations of AI. I like simple and minimal examples and creative ideas. I also like thinking about the next token ๐งฎ๐งธ
Google | PhD, CMU |
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15266 | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06963
vaishnavh.github.io
Martin Jaggi @mjaggi.bsky.social Prof at EPFL
AI โข Climbing
Robert Nowak @rdnowak.bsky.social Director of the Center for the Advancement of Progress
Murat A. Erdogdu @erdog.bsky.social Professor at University of Toronto. Research on machine learning, optimization, and statistics.
Samet Oymak @oymak.bsky.social EECS Prof @UMich, Research on the Foundations of ML+RL+LLM
https://sota.engin.umich.edu/
Lรฉnaรฏc Chizat @lenaicchizat.bsky.social Researcher in computational mathematics
Theory of deep learning, optimal transport, optimization
NUS
@simon-du.bsky.social @simon-du.bsky.social 
Sanjeev Arora @profsanjeevarora.bsky.social Director, Princeton Language and Intelligence. Professor of CS.
Andrej Risteski @andrejristeski.bsky.social Machine learning researcher. Professor in ML department at CMU. 
Surbhi Goel @surbhigoel.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Penn CIS | Postdoc at Microsoft Research | PhD from UT Austin CS | Co-founder LeT-All
@kyunghyuncho.bsky.social @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social a mediocre combination of a mediocre AI scientist, a mediocre physicist, a mediocre chemist, a mediocre manager and a mediocre professor.
see more at https://kyunghyuncho.me/
Volkan Cevher @cevherlions.bsky.social Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, EPFL.
Amazon Scholar (AGI Foundations). IEEE Fellow. ELLIS Fellow.
Dimitris Papailiopoulos @dimitrisp.bsky.social Researcher @MSFTResearch; Prof @UWMadison (on leave); learning in context; thinking about reasoning; babas of Inez Lily.
https://papail.io
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi @mahdisoltan.bsky.social work on theoretical foundations of AI, MLLM reliability/Eval, optimization, high dimensional probability/statistics, AI for science/healthcare; director of center on AIF4S @USC ๐ฒ๐๏ธ๐ฅพ๐โโ๏ธ
Hossein Mobahi @thegradient.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. I โ Optimization โฉ Machine Learning. Fan of IronMaiden๐ค.Here to discuss research ๐ค
Francis Bach @bachfrancis.bsky.social Researcher in machine learning
Ahmad Beirami @abeirami.bsky.social stealth // Gemini RL+inference @ Google DeepMind // Conversational AI @ Meta // RL Agents @ EA // ML+Information Theory @ MIT+Harvard+Duke // Georgia Tech PhD
๐{NYC, SFO, YYZ}
๐ https://beirami.github.io/
Sebastien Bubeck @sbubeck.bsky.social I work on AI at OpenAI.
Former VP AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.
Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social Professor, Stanford University, Statistics and Mathematics. Opinions are my own.
Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social Machine Learning Professor
https://cims.nyu.edu/~andrewgw
Alex Dimakis @alexdimakis.bsky.social UC Berkeley Professor working on AI. Co-Director: National AI Institute on the Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML). http://BespokeLabs.ai cofounder
Preetum Nakkiran @preetumnakkiran.bsky.social ML Research @ Apple.
Understanding deep learning (generalization, calibration, diffusion, etc).
preetum.nakkiran.org
Yasaman Bahri @yasamanbb.bsky.social Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind. AI + physics. Prev Ph.D. @ UC Berkeley.
https://sites.google.com/view/yasamanbahri/home/
Jonathan Frankle @jfrankle.com Chief AI Scientist at Databricks. Founding team at MosaicML. MIT/Princeton alum. Lottery ticket enthusiast. Working on data intelligence.
Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social AI professor at Caltech. General Chair ICLR 2025.
http://www.yisongyue.com
Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social Mother, wife, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Berivan Isik @berivanisik.bsky.social Research scientist at Google DeepMind. PhD from Stanford. GenAI, Gemini data & evaluation.
https://sites.google.com/view/berivanisik- D David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social
Qiyang Li @qcli.bsky.social PhD student @ UC Berkeley
Jason Lee @jasondeanlee.bsky.social Associate Professor at Princeton
Machine Learning Researcher
Willie Neiswanger @willieneis.bsky.social Assistant Professor in CS + AI at USC. Previously at Stanford, CMU. Machine Learning, Decision Making, AI-for-Science, Generative AI, ML Systems, LLMs.
https://willieneis.github.io
Mufan Li @mufan-li.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UWaterloo Statistics and @VectorInst | Prev: Postdoc @Princeton PhD @UofTStatSci
https://mufan-li.github.io/
NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social San Diego Dec 2-7, 25 and Mexico City Nov 30-Dec 5, 25. Comments to this account are not monitored. Please send feedback to townhall@neurips.cc.
Kenneth Stanley @kennethstanley.bsky.social SVP of Open-Endedness at Lila Sciences. In the past: Maven CEO, Lead at OpenAI, head of basic/core research at Uber AI, professor at UCF.
Stuff I helped invent: NEAT, CPPNs, HyperNEAT, novelty search, POET, Picbreeder.
Book: Why Greatness Cannot Be Plann
Ryan Greene @ryangr.bsky.social greene.sh โ ex @OpenAI
David Dohan @dmdohan.bsky.social Reducing perplexity
Steven Heidel @stevenheidel.com API @OpenAI | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ he/him
Durk Kingma @dpkingma.bsky.social Research scientist at Anthropic. Prev. Google Brain/DeepMind, founding team OpenAI. Computer scientist; inventor of the VAE, Adam optimizer, and other methods. ML PhD. Website: dpkingma.com
Dumitru Erhan @dumitruerhan.bsky.social Research Director @GoogleDeepMind. Co-lead of Veo, working on generative models of video and their fun applications.
Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org Professor at Stanford. Psychology/Neuroscience/Data Science/AI. Books include: The New Mind Readers, Handbook of fMRI Data Analysis, Hard to Break, Statistical Thinking, and Better Code, Better Science
https://poldrack.github.io/
Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. https://www.nicolecrust.com. Science advocate. Prof (UPenn Psych) - Author: Elusive Cures. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
Laura @lauraruis.bsky.social PhD supervised by Tim Rocktรคschel and Ed Grefenstette, part time at Cohere. Language and LLMs. Spent time at FAIR, Google, and NYU (with Brenden Lake). She/her.
Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social 
Jonathan Lorraine @jonlorraine.bsky.social Research scientist @NVIDIA | PhD in machine learning @UofT. Previously @Google / @MetaAI. Opinions are my own. ๐ค ๐ป โ๏ธ
Joel Lehman @joelbot3000.bsky.social ML researcher, co-author Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Creative+safe AI, AI+human flourishing, philosophy; prev OpenAI / Uber AI / Geometric Intelligence
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Rowan Zellers @rowan.bsky.social ai research @ thinking machines . realtime video+voice. i like trains and bikes. sometimes I climb rocks and throw pottery.
Christina Kim @christina.bsky.social research @openai
Tom Everitt @tom4everitt.bsky.social AGI safety researcher at Google DeepMind, leading causalincentives.com
Personal website: tomeveritt.se
arxiv math.OC @arxiv-math-oc.bsky.social source: export.arxiv.org/rss/math.OC
maintainer:
@tmaehara.bsky.social
Yaroslav Ganin @yganin.bsky.social researcher @openai, co-founded udio, formerly: deepmind, phd @mila
Aidan Clark @aidanclark.bsky.social I train models @ OpenAI.
Previously Research at DeepMind.
Hae sententiae verbaque mihi soli sunt.- B Babak Taati @babaktaati.bsky.social Senior Scientist at the Kite Research Institute | Toronto Rehab - University Health Network. Associate Professor, Affiliated Scientist in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (cross appointed at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering)
Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social 
Jeff Clune @jeffclune.com Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. Senior Advisor, DeepMind. ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs), open-endedness. 
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Dean W. Ball @deanwb.bsky.social
https://hyperdimensional.co
Eugene Vinitsky ๐ @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Natasha Jaques @natashajaques.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW and Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Social Reinforcement Learning in multi-agent and human-AI interactions. PhD from MIT. Check out https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/ and https://natashajaques.ai/.
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Zachary Lipton @zacharylipton.bsky.social Cofounder & CTO @ Abridge, Raj Reddy Associate Prof of ML @ CMU, occasional writer, relapsing ๐ท, creator of d2l.ai & approximatelycorrect.com
Michael Bronstein @mmbronstein.bsky.social DeepMind Professor of AI @Oxford
Scientific Director @Aithyra
Chief Scientist @ProximaBio
ML Lead @ProjectCETI
geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, generative models, molecular design, proteins, bio AI, ๐ ๐ถ
Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr.bsky.social Seรฑor swesearcher @ Google DeepMind, adjunct prof at Universitรฉ de Montrรฉal and Mila. Musician. From ๐ช๐จ living in ๐จ๐ฆ.
https://psc-g.github.io/
Leshem (Legend) Choshen @EMNLP @lchoshen.bsky.social ๐ฅ LLMs together (co-created model merging, BabyLM, textArena.ai)
๐ฅ Spreading science over hype in #ML & #NLP
Proud shareLM๐ฌ Donor
@IBMResearch & @MIT_CSAIL- D David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social Interpretable Deep Networks. http://baulab.info/ @davidbau
Lawrence Chen @lawrencechen.bsky.social action.new
manaflow.com
Tim Rocktรคschel @handle.invalid Director and Open-Endedness Team Lead Google DeepMind (GDM). Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University College London (UCL), and PI of @ucldark.com. Fellow, European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).
Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org Philosopher working on AI alignment, governance and adaptation
Lab: https://mintresearch.org
Self: https://sethlazar.org
Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
Clรฉment Canonne @ccanonne.github.io Senior Lecturer #USydCompSci at the University of Sydney. Postdocs IBM Research and Stanford; PhD at Columbia. Converts โ into puns: sometimes theorems. He/him.
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/- T Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social Safe and robust AI/ML, computational sustainability. Former President AAAI and IMLS. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Oregon State University. https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~tgd/
Mark van der Wilk @mvdw.bsky.social Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Oxford.
Interested in automatic inductive bias selection using Bayesian tools.
Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social Researcher at Google and CIFAR Fellow, working on the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience in Montrรฉal (academic affiliations: @mcgill.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social).- C Andrew Critch @critch.bsky.social Human being. Trying to do good. CEO @ Encultured AI. AI Researcher @ UC Berkeley. Listed bday is approximate ;)
Soumith Chintala @soumithchintala.bsky.social Cofounded and lead PyTorch at Meta. Also dabble in robotics at NYU.
AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.
http://soumith.ch
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
Joscha Bach @joscha.bsky.social 
Sarah Wiegreffe @sarah-nlp.bsky.social Research in NLP (mostly LM interpretability & explainability).
Assistant prof at UMD CS + CLIP.
Previously @ai2.bsky.social @uwnlp.bsky.social
Views my own.
sarahwie.github.io