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Dieter Fox

Professor

University of WashingtonUSComputer Science & Engineering

Dieter Fox is a Professor in the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He grew up in Bonn, Germany, and received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the Computer Science Department at the...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceComputer visionHuman–computer interaction
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49.7K
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627
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Percy Liang

Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing

Stanford UniversityUSLearning, Design, and Technology

Percy Liang is a Professor of Computer Science with courtesy in Statistics. His research interests encompass fundamental questions around learning and intelligence, including how well we can learn in data-limited,...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceNatural language processingMachine learning
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45.3K
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461
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Daniela Rus

Professor

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUSElectrical Engineering & Computer Science

Daniela Rus is a professor affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence and decision-making, combining intellectual...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceComputer visionDistributed computing
129
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61.5K
citations
1.2K
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Dan Jurafsky

Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities, and Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science

Stanford UniversityUSLinguistics

Dan Jurafsky is Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science, and Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is an award-winning teacher and a MacArthur Fellow, recognized for his significant...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceNatural language processingLinguistics
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34.3K
citations
372
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Stefano Ermon

Probabilistic Reasoning, Machine Learning & Sustainability

Stanford UniversityUSLearning, Design, and Technology

Stefano Ermon leads research that focuses on innovative computational approaches to address societal and environmental challenges of the 21st century. His work combines foundational research in artificial intelligence...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceMachine learningAlgorithm
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22.7K
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487
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Taskin Padir

Professor

Northeastern UniversityUSBiomedical Engineering

Taskin Padir is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University and also serves as an Amazon Scholar. He holds a PhD and MS degrees from Purdue University, earned in 2004 and...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceComputer visionHuman–computer interaction
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206
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Heng Ji

Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUSComputer Science
Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceNatural language processingInformation retrieval
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6.3K
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364
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Yun Raymond Fu

Professor, Jointly Appointed with College of Engineering

Northeastern UniversityUSArtificial Intelligence and Data Science

Yun Raymond Fu is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Engineering at Northeastern University, based in Boston. His research interests include machine learning, computational...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceMachine learningComputer vision
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28.7K
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James S. Duncan

Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor

Yale UniversityUSBiological Engineering

James S. Duncan is the Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University, with additional appointments in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Radiology & Biomedical Imaging. His research focuses...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceComputer visionMedicine
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21.8K
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Scott Delp

James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Orthopaedic Surgery

Stanford UniversityUSRheumatology

Scott Delp is the James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where he also holds positions as a Professor of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, and by courtesy, of Orthopaedic...

MedicineComputer sciencePhysical medicine and rehabilitationAnatomy
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52.2K
citations
550
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Richard G. Baraniuk

Duke University Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rice UniversityUSComputer Science

Richard G. Baraniuk is a professor whose research focuses on signal processing, machine learning, and compressive sensing. His work involves developing innovative methods for data acquisition, analysis, and...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceAlgorithmMathematics
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53.1K
citations
889
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James Zou

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science Faculty Director, AI for Health

Stanford UniversityUSRheumatology

James Zou is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is affiliated with the Center for Artificial Intelligence in...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceMachine learningBiology
83
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40.1K
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645
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Michael I. Jordan

Professor

University of California, BerkeleyUSDepartment of Statistics

Michael I. Jordan is Senior Researcher at Inria, Paris, and the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the...

Computer scienceMathematicsArtificial intelligenceMathematical optimization
175
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208.7K
citations
1.4K
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Quanquan Gu

Professor

University of California, Los AngelesUSComputer Science

Quanquan Gu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, optimization algorithms, and computational...

Computer scienceMathematicsArtificial intelligenceAlgorithm
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10.7K
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414
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Yann LeCun

Jacob T. Schwartz Chaired Professor of Computer Science

New York UniversityUSAtmosphere Ocean Science

Yann LeCun is the Jacob T. Schwartz Chaired Professor of Computer Science at New York University. He received the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering from King Charles III during a ceremony at St. James Palace in...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceMachine learningComputer vision
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254.5K
citations
568
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Tonio Buonassisi

Professor

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUSMechanical Engineering

Tonio Buonassisi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focuses on the application of artificial intelligence to develop new materials for societally...

Materials scienceOptoelectronicsComputer scienceNanotechnology
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27.4K
citations
711
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Yejin Choi

Stanford UniversityUSLearning, Design, and Technology

Yejin Choi is a leading figure in AI research, focusing on AI for Science, Pluralistic Alignment & AI for humanity, and Alternative Training and Inference Algorithms. She works on molecular foundation models, protein...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceNatural language processingMachine learning
99
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42.7K
citations
703
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Jiajun Wu

Computer Vision, Machine Learning & Cognitive Science

Stanford UniversityUSSymbolic Systems

Jiajun Wu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Psychology at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Research, where he worked with...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceComputer visionHuman–computer interaction
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12.8K
citations
325
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Alberto Salleo

Professor

Stanford UniversityUSMaterials Science and Engineering

Alberto Salleo is the Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor of Photon Science and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. His research focuses on materials science and engineering,...

Materials scienceNanotechnologyOptoelectronicsChemical physics
108
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46.5K
citations
471
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Diyi Yang

Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing

Stanford UniversityUSLearning, Design, and Technology

Diyi Yang is an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She is broadly interested in Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing, with the goal of modeling human...

Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceNatural language processingPsychology
45
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12.3K
citations
345
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