Following is a non-exhaustive list in (approx.) alphabetical order of people who have contributed immensely to the development of the field and continue to do so. The purpose of listing these people here as follows:
- To acknowledge their valuable contributions to human knowledge.
- To motivate current and aspiring AI enthusiasts.
- To keep ourselves updated with recent development in the field by keeping an eye on their research work and ideas.
Co-Founder of Coursera, Professor at Stanford University, Former Chief Scientist at Baidu Research. (web)
Director of AI at Tesla, Stanford PhD, Former Research Scientist at Open AI. (academic), (blog)
Famous for AlexNet, Formerly at Google. (academic)
Known for work on LSTM, RNNs, Neural Turing Machine, Currently Research scientist at Google DeepMind. (academic)
Principal researcher at Amazon Alexa ML. (academic)
Professor at University College London, Leads Reinforcement Learning research group at DeepMind, lead researcher on AlphaGo. (academic)
Co-Founder of Coursera, Professor at Stanford University, Known for her work on Probabilistic Graphical Models and Bayesian ML. (academic)
Professor at Stanford University, Director of Stanford AI Lab and the Stanford Vision Lab. Advisor of Andrej Karpathy (academic)
Creator of Keras, Researcher at Google. (google), (twitter)
Professor at University of Toronto, Consultant for Google, Known for foundational work on Neural Nets, advisor of Alex Graves, Illya Sutskever, Yann LeCun (academic)
Known for Generative Adversarial Networks, Lead Author of Deep Learning Book, Research Scientist at Google, Formerly at OpenAI. (google), (twitter)
Research Director of OpenAI, Formerly at Google Brain. (personal)
Scientific Director of IDSIA, Professor at USI, advisor of Alex Graves. (academic)
Among the creators of ResNet, Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, Former Microsoft Research Asia. (academic), (fb)
Head of the Machine Learning Dept at Carnegie Mellon University. (personal)
Founder of Clarifai. (personal)
Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. (personal)
Quantum Physicist and Computer Scientist, Research Fellow at Y Combinator Research. Author of Neural networks and deep learning online book. (personal), (twitter)
Professor at University of Oxford. (personal), (oxford), (twitter)
Director of Research, Google. Co-author of the quintessential AI book - Artificial Intelligence: A Modern approach. (personal)
Considered father of modern Reinforcement Learning, Professor at University of Alberta. Author of Reinforcement Learning book. Advisor of David Silver. (academic).
Owns a youtube channel dedicated to AI tutorials.He has also contributed in Deep Learning Nanodegree Program at Udacity. His youtube channel has 300K+ subscribers.He is also very active at github with around 200+ repositories and 500+ contributions in the last year.(youtube),(github),(website).
Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley. Co-author of the quintessential AI book - Artificial Intelligence: A Modern approach. (berkeley)
Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research. (microsoft)
Director of AI Research at Facebook, Founding Director of NYU Center for Data Science (personal)
Professor at University of Montreal, Head of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), advisor of Ian Goodfellow. (academic), (umontreal)