Curated category
Machine learning researchers
- Jan LeikeJan Leike began his academic journey at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He earned an undergraduate degree there before moving to Australia.
- Yoshua BengioYoshua Bengio became, in November 2025, the first AI researcher to pass one million citations on Google Scholar. He was already the most-cited computer…
- Demis HassabisDemis Hassabis was born Dimitrios Hassapis on the 27th of July 1976, and his very surname carries a story. The original name, Hassapis, means “butcher” in…
- Jürgen SchmidhuberJürgen Schmidhuber was born on the 17th of January 1963, and for decades the New York Times ran a profile of him under the headline "When A.I.
- Yann LeCunYann LeCun was born on the 8th of July 1960 in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, a suburb of Paris, and his surname carries the fingerprints of a culture older than…
- Andrew NgAndrew Yan-Tak Ng was born in London on the 18th of April 1976, to a hematologist father and an arts administrator mother who had both immigrated from Hong…
- Geoffrey HintonGeoffrey Hinton spent decades trying to convince the scientific world that the brain's approach to learning was the right model for machines.
- Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil was born on the 12th of February 1948 in Queens, New York City, to parents who had fled Austria just before World War II.
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl entered the world on the 4th of September 1936 in Tel Aviv. This city sat within the British Mandate for Palestine at that time.
- Karl SteinbuchKarl Steinbuch was born on the 15th of June 1917 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. He studied physics at the University of Stuttgart during a time when Germany was…
- Seppo LinnainmaaSeppo Ilmari Linnainmaa was born on the 28th of September 1945, in Pori, Finland. He grew up to become a mathematician and computer scientist, and today he…