Zhao Tongyang
Zhao Tongyang is a Chinese roboticist, founder and chief executive of EngineAI, with a multi-venture trajectory spanning IoT, quadruped robotics, XPeng Robotics, and humanoids.
AI People
Profiles of the people leading the AI labs. Founders, chief scientists, and researchers whose career arcs shape where the field goes next.
Will Jackson
Will Jackson is a British engineer and designer, founder of Engineered Arts, the Falmouth, Cornwall-based humanoid robotics company that builds the Ameca and RoboThespian expressive humanoid platforms.
Wang Xingxing
Wang Xingxing is a Chinese roboticist, founder and chief executive of Unitree Robotics, and the leading figure of China's humanoid-robotics export generation.
Suzanne Gildert
Suzanne Gildert is a British experimental physicist, co-founder of Sanctuary AI and Kindred, and founder and CEO of the quantum-AI startup Nirvanic Consciousness Technologies.
Steve O'Dea
Steve O'Dea is the chief operating officer of Apptronik, the Austin-based humanoid-robotics company building the Apollo bipedal robot.
Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Shai Shalev-Shwartz is an Israeli computer scientist, Hebrew University professor, chief technology officer of Mobileye, and co-founder of Mentee Robotics and AAI.
Peng Zhihui
Peng Zhihui is a Chinese roboticist, founder and chief technology officer of Agibot, former Huawei Genius Youth recruit, and the Bilibili creator known as Zhihui Jun.
Peggy Johnson
Peggy Johnson is an American technology executive and the chief executive officer of Agility Robotics, the Oregon-based humanoid-robotics company, since March 2024.
Olivia Norton
Olivia Norton is a Canadian computer engineer, co-founder and Chief Technology and Product Officer of Sanctuary AI, and the engineering principal behind the Phoenix humanoid platform.
Oh Jun-ho
Oh Jun-ho is a South Korean mechanical engineer, longtime KAIST professor, inventor of the HUBO humanoid robot lineage, and co-founder and chief technology officer of Rainbow Robotics.
Nick Paine
Nick Paine is an American roboticist, co-founder and chief technology officer of Apptronik, and the developer of the UT Series Elastic Actuator adopted by NASA-JSC and other humanoid programs.
Mikhail Jones
Mikhail Jones is an American roboticist and co-founder of Agility Robotics, where he serves as vice president of software engineering and leads the company's control-software development.
Luis Sentis
Luis Sentis is a Spanish-American roboticist, professor at UT Austin and director of the Human Centered Robotics Lab, and a co-founder and scientific advisor of Apptronik.
Lior Wolf
Lior Wolf is an Israeli computer scientist, professor at Tel Aviv University, and co-founder and chief executive of Mentee Robotics, the AI-first humanoid-robotics company.
Lei Jun
Lei Jun is a Chinese technology entrepreneur, founder, chairman and chief executive of Xiaomi Corporation, the consumer-electronics, EV, and robotics company he established in April 2010.
Lee Jung-ho
Lee Jung-ho is a South Korean robotics engineer, co-founder and chief executive officer of Rainbow Robotics, the KOSDAQ-listed humanoid-robotics company spun out from the KAIST HUBO Lab.
Jonathan Hurst
Jonathan Hurst is an American roboticist, professor of robotics at Oregon State University, and co-founder and chief robot officer of Agility Robotics.
Jeff Cardenas
Jeff Cardenas is an American technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apptronik, the Austin-based humanoid-robotics company.
James Zhou
James Zhou is a Chinese robotics entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of UBTECH Robotics, the first humanoid-robotics company to complete a major public listing.
He Xiaopeng
He Xiaopeng is a Chinese entrepreneur, co-founder and chairman of XPeng Motors, and previously co-founder of UCWeb, the mobile browser company acquired by Alibaba in 2014.
Geordie Rose
Geordie Rose is a Canadian theoretical physicist, co-founder of D-Wave Systems and Kindred, and co-founder and former CEO of Sanctuary AI.
David Reger
David Reger is a German technology entrepreneur, founder and chief executive officer of Neura Robotics, the Metzingen-based humanoid and cognitive cobotics company he started in 2019.
Damion Shelton
Damion Shelton is an American roboticist and entrepreneur, co-founder of Agility Robotics, and the company's chief executive officer from 2015 to 2024.
Alex Gu
Alex Gu is a Chinese roboticist, founder and chief executive of Fourier Intelligence, the Shanghai rehabilitation-and-humanoid-robotics company with a strategic relationship to Saudi sovereign capital.
Ajay Agrawal
Ajay Agrawal is a Canadian economist, University of Toronto Rotman professor, founder of the Creative Destruction Lab, and co-founder of Sanctuary AI and Kindred.
Aindrea Campbell
Aindrea Campbell is an American manufacturing-operations executive and chief operating officer of Agility Robotics, the Oregon-based humanoid-robotics company, since January 2023.
Aravind Srinivas
Aravind Srinivas is an Indian-American computer scientist and co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, the conversational answer-engine startup.
Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is a French-born Canadian computer scientist, full professor at the Université de Montréal
Tudor Achim
Tudor Achim is a Romanian-American computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Harmonic
Niki Parmar
Niki Parmar is an Indian computer scientist, a co-author of the 2017 Google Brain transformer paper, a co-founder of Adept AI and Essential AI
Laurent Sifre
Laurent Sifre is a French computer scientist, co-founder and chief technology officer of H, and a co-author of the AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero papers at…
Ken Ono
Ken Ono is an American number theorist, Founding Mathematician at Axiom Math, and a senior researcher on partition theory, modular forms
Karl Tuyls
Karl Tuyls is a Belgian computer scientist and former Research Director at Google DeepMind, where he led the Game Theory and Multi-Agent Team; co-founder…
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive scientist, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto
François Chollet
François Chollet is a French software engineer and AI researcher, creator of the Keras deep learning framework, author of the ARC-AGI benchmark
Eric Zelikman
Eric Zelikman is an American computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Humans&, the human-centric AI lab
David Baker
David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist, director of the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design
Daan Wierstra
Daan Wierstra is a Dutch computer scientist and the first research scientist hired at DeepMind, a co-author of the DDPG continuous-control paper
Charles Kantor
Charles Kantor is a French AI entrepreneur and former chief executive officer of H, the Paris agentic-AI company he co-founded in 2024 and led through the…
Brayden Levangie
Brayden Levangie is an American AI engineer and founder of Levangie Labs, the small research company developing the Cognitive Agentic Framework
Carina Hong
Carina Hong is a Chinese-American mathematician, founder and chief executive officer of Axiom Math, a Rhodes Scholar, MIT graduate
Ashish Vaswani
Ashish Vaswani is an Indian computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Essential AI
Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev is a Bulgarian-American entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive officer of Robinhood Markets
Sara Hooker
Sara Hooker is an Irish computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Adaption Labs, prior vice president of research at Cohere where she…
Naveen Rao
Naveen Rao is an American computer architect and neuroscientist, founder and chief executive officer of Unconventional AI
Mike Knoop
Mike Knoop is an American entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive officer of AI research lab Ndea, co-founder of workflow-automation company Zapier
Max Welling
Max Welling is a Dutch machine-learning researcher, co-founder and chief technology officer of CuspAI
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Marc Tessier-Lavigne is a Canadian-American neuroscientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Xaira Therapeutics
Jerry Tworek
Jerry Tworek is a Polish AI researcher, co-founder and chief executive officer of Core Automation, and the prior vice president of research at OpenAI…
Amnon Shashua
Amnon Shashua is an Israeli computer scientist, founder and chief executive of Mobileye, co-founder of AI21 Labs, OrCam, Mentee Robotics, and AAI
Brett Adcock
Brett Adcock is an American serial technology entrepreneur, founder and chief executive officer of humanoid-robotics company Figure AI
Zhu Wenjia
Zhu Wenjia is a Chinese technology executive, head of model applications at ByteDance Seed, and the engineer who built ByteDance's first…
Zhou Bowen
Zhou Bowen is a Chinese computer scientist, director and chief scientist of Shanghai AI Laboratory since July 2024
Zhang Peng
Zhang Peng is a Chinese computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Z.AI (formerly Zhipu AI), a Tsinghua University doctoral graduate
Zhang Hongjiang
Zhang Hongjiang is a Chinese-American computer scientist and technology executive, founding chairman of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
Yang Zhilin
Yang Zhilin is a Chinese computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Moonshot AI, and a co-author of the Transformer-XL and XLNet…
Yan Junjie
Yan Junjie is a Chinese computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of MiniMax, and a former vice president at SenseTime who pivoted from…
Wu Yonghui
Wu Yonghui is a Chinese-American computer scientist, head of foundational research at ByteDance Seed since February 2025
Wang Haifeng
Wang Haifeng is a Chinese computer scientist, chief technology officer of Baidu, and head of the company's AI Group
Tian Qi
Tian Qi is a Chinese-American computer scientist, chief scientist for AI at Huawei Cloud and Huawei's Consumer Business Group
Tang Jie
Tang Jie is a Chinese computer scientist, professor at Tsinghua University, and co-founder and chief scientist of Z.AI (formerly Zhipu AI)
Robin Li
Robin Li (Li Yanhong) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Baidu
Lin Junyang
Lin Junyang is a Chinese computer scientist and the former tech lead of the Qwen team at Alibaba, where he steered the open-weights Qwen line from a side…
Lin Dahua
Lin Dahua is a Chinese computer scientist, lead scientist of Shanghai AI Laboratory, director of the Institute of AI and Interdisciplinary Research at the…
Jingren Zhou
Jingren Zhou is a Chinese computer scientist, vice president of Alibaba Group, chief technology officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence
Jiang Daxin
Jiang Daxin is a Chinese computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of StepFun, and a former Microsoft Global Vice President and Chief…
James Bradbury
James Bradbury is Head of Compute at Anthropic and a co-creator of the JAX numerical-computing library, previously a research engineer on JAX, TPUs
Mark Chen
Mark Chen is the Chief Research Officer of OpenAI, the lead researcher behind DALL-E, Codex, and the visual perception capabilities of GPT-4
Jakub Pachocki
Jakub Pachocki is the Chief Scientist of OpenAI, lead of the GPT-4 pretraining and OpenAI Five reinforcement-learning programs
Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and AI investor, co-founder and former chief executive of Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Sebastian De Ro
Sebastian De Ro is an Austrian software engineer and the co-founder and chief technology officer of Magic
Russ Salakhutdinov
Russ Salakhutdinov is a Canadian machine-learning researcher, UPMC Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Chief Scientist of Magic
Moshe Shalev
Moshe Shalev is an Israeli technology executive and the co-founder and chief product officer of Decart
Johannes Hagemann
Johannes Hagemann is a German artificial intelligence engineer and the co-founder and chief technology officer of Prime Intellect
Eiso Kant
Eiso Kant is a Dutch software entrepreneur, the co-founder and chief technology officer of poolside, and a former founder of source{d} and Athenian who…
Geoffrey von Maltzahn
Geoffrey von Maltzahn is an American biological engineer and serial biotechnology entrepreneur who co-founded Lila Sciences, Generate Biomedicines
Ekin Dogus Cubuk
Ekin Dogus Cubuk is a Turkish-American physicist and machine-learning researcher, the co-founder of Periodic Labs and a former research lead for…
Andrew White
Andrew White is an American chemical engineer, the co-founder and head of science of FutureHouse, the San Francisco AI-for-science nonprofit
Daniel Balsam
Daniel Balsam is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Goodfire, the San Francisco mechanistic-interpretability company; previously the founding…
Laurent Massoulié
Laurent Massoulié is a French computer scientist and Senior Research Director at Inria, known for foundational work on bandwidth sharing
Patrick Pérez
Patrick Pérez is a French computer scientist and the Chief Executive Officer of Kyutai, with three decades of computer-vision and machine-learning…
Hervé Jegou
Hervé Jegou is a French computer scientist, co-author on Product Quantization, the FAISS similarity-search library, and the DeiT, DINO
Edouard Grave
Edouard Grave is a French AI researcher, Chief Language Officer at Kyutai, and a co-author on the fastText library, the original LLaMA paper, and Moshi.
Christoph Lassner
Christoph Lassner is a German computer scientist working at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and computer graphics
Ben Mildenhall
Ben Mildenhall is an American computer scientist, a co-founder of World Labs, and the lead author of the 2020 NeRF paper
Justin Johnson
Justin Johnson is an American computer scientist and computer-vision researcher, an associate professor at the University of Michigan
Dean Leitersdorf
Dean Leitersdorf is an Israeli artificial intelligence entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Decart
Vincent Weisser
Vincent Weisser is a German artificial intelligence and decentralized-science entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Prime…
Eric Steinberger
Eric Steinberger is an Austrian artificial intelligence researcher and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Magic
Sam Rodriques
Sam Rodriques is an American physicist and bioengineer, the co-founder and chief executive officer of FutureHouse
Liam Fedus
Liam Fedus is an American computer scientist, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Periodic Labs and a former vice president of research for…
Jason Warner
Jason Warner is an American software engineer, the co-founder and chief executive officer of poolside
Ioannis Antonoglou
Ioannis Antonoglou is a Greek computer scientist, co-founder, president, and chief technology officer of Reflection AI
Misha Laskin
Misha Laskin is a Russian-born computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Reflection AI
Alexander Amini
Alexander Amini is an American computer scientist, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Liquid AI, a research scientist at MIT CSAIL
Mathias Lechner
Mathias Lechner is an Austrian computer scientist, co-founder and chief technology officer of Liquid AI
Ramin Hasani
Ramin Hasani is a Persian-Austrian computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Liquid AI
Daniela Rus
Daniela Rus is a Romanian-American computer scientist, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Laurent Solly
Laurent Solly is a French executive, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of AMI Labs, and former Vice President for Europe at Meta who spent twelve…
Michael Rabbat
Michael Rabbat is a Canadian-American electrical engineer, co-founder and Vice President of World Models at AMI Labs
Pascale Fung
Pascale Fung is a Chinese-American natural-language processing and speech researcher, co-founder and Chief Research and Innovation Officer of AMI Labs
Saining Xie
Saining Xie is a computer-vision researcher, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of AMI Labs, and an assistant professor of computer science at New York…
Alexandre LeBrun
Alexandre LeBrun is a French entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive officer of AMI (Advanced Machine Intelligence)
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu is a Chinese-Canadian machine-learning researcher known for neural theorem proving, autoformalization, and AlphaGeometry
Christian Szegedy
Christian Szegedy is a Hungarian mathematician and machine-learning researcher, founder of Math Inc, first author of the GoogLeNet Inception paper and the…
Jimmy Ba
Jimmy Ba is a Canadian machine-learning researcher, associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, co-author of the Adam optimizer
Greg Yang
Greg Yang is a Chinese-American mathematician and AI researcher, founding team member of xAI since March 2023
Igor Babuschkin
Igor Babuschkin is a German-Russian AI engineer, co-founder and former engineering lead of xAI from 2023 to 2025, and founder of Babuschkin Ventures
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the founder and chief executive officer of xAI, chief executive officer of Tesla, founder and chief executive of SpaceX
Tom McGrath
Tom McGrath is the co-founder and chief scientist of Goodfire, the San Francisco mechanistic-interpretability company; previously a senior research…
Eric Ho
Eric Ho is the co-founder and chief executive of Goodfire, the San Francisco mechanistic-interpretability company; previously co-founder, president
Koray Kavukcuoglu
Koray Kavukcuoglu is the Chief Technology Officer of Google DeepMind and the first Chief AI Architect at Google
Lila Ibrahim
Lila Ibrahim is the Chief AI Readiness Officer of Google DeepMind, and was the lab's first chief operating officer from 2018 to 2026; previously president…
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy is co-founder and president of Safe Superintelligence Inc., the pre-product AI research company started in June 2024 with Ilya Sutskever
Lilian Weng
Lilian Weng is a co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, formerly Vice President of Research, Safety Systems at OpenAI
Barret Zoph
Barret Zoph is an American AI researcher, lead author of the foundational Neural Architecture Search paper
Nick Frosst
Nick Frosst is a Canadian computer scientist and musician, a co-founder of Cohere and of the Cohere Labs open-research division
Ivan Zhang
Ivan Zhang is a Canadian software engineer, co-founder of Cohere, and a longtime collaborator of Aidan Gomez through the FOR.AI independent research group…
Timothée Lacroix
Timothée Lacroix is a French computer scientist, co-founder and chief technology officer of Mistral AI
Guillaume Lample
Guillaume Lample is a French AI researcher, co-founder and chief science officer of Mistral AI, and last author of the original LLaMA paper at Meta AI…
Sam McCandlish
Sam McCandlish is a theoretical physicist, co-founder and Chief Architect of Anthropic, the AI safety company that develops the Claude family of…
Jack Clark
Jack Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic, the AI safety company that develops the Claude family of large-language models
Jared Kaplan
Jared Kaplan is a theoretical physicist, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Anthropic, and the lead author of the 2020 scaling-laws paper that…
Tom Brown
Tom Brown is a co-founder and Chief Compute Officer of Anthropic, the AI safety company that develops the Claude family of large-language models…
Shane Legg
Shane Legg is a New Zealand-born computer scientist, co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist of Google DeepMind, and the researcher who, with Marcus Hutter
John Jumper
John Jumper is an American chemist and research lead on the AlphaFold protein-structure-prediction program at Google DeepMind
Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT and the GPT model family; previously the first Chief Technology Officer…
Jeff Clune
Jeff Clune is an American computer scientist, professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute
Vik Bajaj
Vik Bajaj is an American physical chemist and biotechnology executive who co-founded Verily, GRAIL, and Xaira Therapeutics
Chris Olah
Chris Olah is a Canadian machine-learning researcher and co-founder of Anthropic, where he leads the interpretability research program; previously head of…
John Schulman
John Schulman is an American computer scientist, co-founder of OpenAI, lead author of the Trust Region Policy Optimization and Proximal Policy…
Karan Malhotra
Karan Malhotra is an American artificial-intelligence researcher and co-founder of Nous Research, where he serves as Head of Behavior on the Hermes…
Arthur Mensch
Arthur Mensch is a French computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Mistral AI, and a co-author of the 2022 Chinchilla paper at Google…
Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese-born computer scientist, founder and chief executive of 01.AI, founding chair of Sinovation Ventures
Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez is a British-Canadian computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cohere
Liang Wenfeng
Liang Wenfeng is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder and chief executive officer of DeepSeek, and co-founder of the High-Flyer quantitative hedge fund whose…
Tim Rocktäschel
Tim Rocktäschel is a German-British AI researcher, founder and chief executive of Recursive Superintelligence
David Silver
David Silver is a British computer scientist, founder and chief executive of Ineffable Intelligence, and former vice president of reinforcement-learning…
Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Safe Superintelligence Inc. and the former chief scientist of OpenAI; co-author of the…
Mira Murati
Mira Murati is the founder and chief executive officer of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI research and product company she launched in 2025; previously…
Daniela Amodei
Daniela Amodei is the president and a co-founder of Anthropic, the AI safety company that develops the Claude model family; previously vice president of…
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is the chief executive officer and a co-founder of Anthropic, the AI safety company developing the Claude model family; previously vice…
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is a French-American computer scientist, Silver Professor at New York University, executive chairman of AMI (which he co-founded in November…
Sam Altman
Sam Altman is the chief executive officer and a co-founder of OpenAI and a prolific personal investor in AI, energy, and software companies
Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-American computer scientist, Sequoia Capital Professor of CS at Stanford, co-director of Stanford HAI, and CEO of World Labs
Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a British computer scientist, co-founder and chief executive officer of Google DeepMind
Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is the founder and CEO of Eureka Labs, an AI-native education startup, and a former research scientist at OpenAI and director of AI and…
Profiles of the people leading the AI labs covered in the Atlas: founders, chief scientists, and researcher-investors whose career arcs and capital flows shape where the field goes next. Each profile is a Wikipedia-style reference plus the kind of context the Atlas data alone cannot capture: board seats, AI-related investments, and direct ties to other people in this directory.
