Ryan O'Donnell @booleananalysis.bsky.social 
Hattie @hattie.bsky.social Building a friend
Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. 
Ben Edelman @benedelman.bsky.social Thinking about how/why AI works/doesn't, and how to make it go well for us.
Currently: AI Agent Security @ US AI Safety Institute
benjaminedelman.com
Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social 
Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack: https://realizable.substack.com
@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/
Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social Machine Learning Professor
https://cims.nyu.edu/~andrewgw
Andrej Risteski @andrejristeski.bsky.social Machine learning researcher. Professor in ML department at CMU. 
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 🚲🏔️🥾🏊♂️
Volkan Cevher @cevherlions.bsky.social Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, EPFL.
Amazon Scholar (AGI Foundations). IEEE Fellow. ELLIS Fellow.
@simon-du.bsky.social @simon-du.bsky.social 
Martin Jaggi @mjaggi.bsky.social Prof at EPFL
AI • 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.
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 🧮🧸
Google | PhD, CMU |
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15266 | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06963
vaishnavh.github.io
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.
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 
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 Université, EPFL.
Daniel Csillag @dccsillag.xyz Applied mathematician working on machine learning, statistics and compilers. Currently doing research at FGV EMAp.
dccsillag.xyz
Peter Richtarik @richtarik.bsky.social Professor of CS and Math @ KAUST. Interested in Optimization for Machine Learning. Federated learning guru. Likes 🏓🏋️♂️🎾🏐⛷️⛸️🧘♂️🤿🎹🎸✈️🏔️📷☀️🐈🍅🥚☕️
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
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
Andrew Saxe @saxelab.bsky.social Professor at the Gatsby Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, trying to figure out how we learn
Henry Gouk @handle.invalid Assistant Professor (Lecturer) and RAEng Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh 🏴. Working on Verifiable AI.
henrygouk.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 👶
Krishna Balasubramanian @krizna.bsky.social https://sites.google.com/view/kriznakumar/ Associate professor at @ucdavis
#machinelearning #deeplearning #probability #statistics #optimization #sampling 
Benedikt Kolbeinsson @benedikt.phd Researcher | PhD in ML/CV from Imperial
benedikt.phd
Omead Pooladzandi ✈️ NeurIPS'24 @hessianfree.bsky.social Optimization Generative Modeling @Caltech, PhD @UCLA. ex Research Scientist Intern @AIatMeta (opinions are my own) why is jax so difficult
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
📍{NYC, SFO, YYZ}
🔗 https://beirami.github.io/
Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social AI professor at Caltech. General Chair ICLR 2025.
http://www.yisongyue.com
Quanquan Gu @quanquangu.bsky.social Professor @UCLA, Research Scientist @ByteDance | Recent work: SPIN, SPPO, DPLM 1/2, GPM, MARS | Opinions are my own
Samet Oymak @oymak.bsky.social EECS Prof @UMich, Research on the Foundations of ML+RL+LLM
https://sota.engin.umich.edu/
Lénaïc Chizat @lenaicchizat.bsky.social Researcher in computational mathematics
Theory of deep learning, optimal transport, optimization
NUS
Francis Bach @bachfrancis.bsky.social Researcher in machine learning
Yasaman Bahri @yasamanbb.bsky.social Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind. AI + physics. Prev Ph.D. @ UC Berkeley.
https://sites.google.com/view/yasamanbahri/home/
Surbhi Goel @surbhigoel.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Penn CIS | Postdoc at Microsoft Research | PhD from UT Austin CS | Co-founder LeT-All
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
Hossein Mobahi @thegradient.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. I ∈ Optimization ∩ Machine Learning. Fan of IronMaiden🤘.Here to discuss research 🤓
Preetum Nakkiran @preetumnakkiran.bsky.social ML Research @ Apple.
Understanding deep learning (generalization, calibration, diffusion, etc).
preetum.nakkiran.org
Sanjeev Arora @profsanjeevarora.bsky.social Director, Princeton Language and Intelligence. Professor of CS.
Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social Professor, Stanford University, Statistics and Mathematics. Opinions are my own.
Dimitris Papailiopoulos @dimitrisp.bsky.social Researcher @MSFTResearch; Prof @UWMadison (on leave); learning in context; thinking about reasoning; babas of Inez Lily.
https://papail.io
Zico Kolter @zicokolter.bsky.social Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon. Board member OpenAI. Chief Technical Advisor Gray Swan AI. Chief Expert Bosch Research.
Surya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford | Venture Partner a16z | Research in AI, Neuroscience, Physics
Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein
Jason Lee @jasondeanlee.bsky.social Associate Professor at Princeton
Machine Learning Researcher
Sebastien Bubeck @sbubeck.bsky.social I work on AI at OpenAI.
Former VP AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.
Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io Senior Lecturer #USydCompSci at the University of Sydney. Postdocs IBM Research and Stanford; PhD at Columbia. Converts ☕ into puns: sometimes theorems. He/him.
Yarin @yaringal.bsky.social Associate Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford;
OATML Group Leader;
Director of Research at the UK government's AI Safety Institute (formerly UK Taskforce on Frontier AI)
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
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, 🐎 🎶
Ekdeep Singh @ ICML @ekdeepl.bsky.social Postdoc at CBS, Harvard University
(New around here)
Ilenna Jones @ilennaj.bsky.social | Cellular/Molecular-turned-Computational Neuroscientist |
| What do neurons even do?? | Neural Computation with Dendrites |
| Biophysical Optimization | AI <-> Neuro |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Kempner Institute |
| www.ilenna.com- D David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social Interpretable Deep Networks. http://baulab.info/ @davidbau
Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social Asst Prof at Johns Hopkins Cognitive Science • Director of the Group for Language and Intelligence (glint) ✨• Interested in all things language, cognition, and AI
jennhu.github.io
Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
https://gershmanlab.com/
Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
Leshem (Legend) Choshen @EMNLP @lchoshen.bsky.social 🥇 LLMs together (co-created model merging, BabyLM, textArena.ai)
🥈 Spreading science over hype in #ML & #NLP
Proud shareLM💬 Donor
@IBMResearch & @MIT_CSAIL
Sasha Rush @srushnlp.bsky.social Professor, Programmer in NYC.
Cornell, Hugging Face 🤗
Tal Linzen @tallinzen.bsky.social NYU professor, Google research scientist. Good at LaTeX.
Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat.bsky.social AI safety at Anthropic, on leave from a faculty job at NYU.
Views not employers'.
I think you should join Giving What We Can.
cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman
Jonathan Frankle @jfrankle.com Chief AI Scientist at Databricks. Founding team at MosaicML. MIT/Princeton alum. Lottery ticket enthusiast. Working on data intelligence.
Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com Assistant Prof of CS at NYU Courant. Co-EiC of TMLR. My group is The Salon. Privacy, robustness, machine learning.
http://www.gautamkamath.com
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. 
Dan Roy @roydanroy.bsky.social Research Director, Founding Faculty, Canada CIFAR AI Chair @VectorInst.
Full Prof @UofT - Statistics and Computer Sci. (x-appt) danroy.org
I study assumption-free prediction and decision making under uncertainty, with inference emerging from optimality.
Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social I make sure that OpenAI et al. aren't the only people who are able to study large scale AI systems.
roon @tszzl.bsky.social 
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein @jascha.sohldickstein.com Recently a principal scientist at Google DeepMind. Joining Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamical systems.
David Pfau @davidpfau.com So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me.
Views my own, unfortunately.
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana.ai Researcher (OpenAI. Ex: DeepMind, Brain, RWTH Aachen), Gamer, Hacker, Belgian.
Anon feedback: https://admonymous.co/giffmana
📍 Zürich, Suisse 🔗 http://lucasb.eyer.be
Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social Associate Professor in EECS at MIT. Neural nets, generative models, representation learning, computer vision, robotics, cog sci, AI.
https://web.mit.edu/phillipi/
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Zachary Lipton @zacharylipton.bsky.social Cofounder & CTO @ Abridge, Raj Reddy Associate Prof of ML @ CMU, occasional writer, relapsing 🎷, creator of d2l.ai & approximatelycorrect.com
François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org Research Scientist Meta/FAIR, Prof. University of Geneva, co-founder Neural Concept SA. I like reality.
https://fleuret.org
Isabel Papadimitriou @isabelpapad.bsky.social (jolly good) Fellow at the Kempner Institute @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social, incoming assistant professor at UBC Linguistics (and by courtesy CS, Sept 2025). PhD @stanfordnlp.bsky.social with the lovely @jurafsky.bsky.social
isabelpapad.com
Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. ML/NLP professor.
nsaphra.net
@aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social 
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
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