Agents

103 people are listed under this topic in the USASI directory. Most common companies: Meta (7), Microsoft (6), All Hands AI (3), Amazon (3), Carnegie Mellon University (3).

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Adam FourneySenior Principal Researcher, Human-AI eXperiences (HAX) group, AI Frontiers · Microsoft Research
Aldehir RojasMember of the llama-common code-owner team · llama.cpp project
Alex FinnInstructor · Vibe Coding Academy
Alexander ToshevListed with Apple on the RLTL;DR paper (September 2026) · Apple
Amjad MasadFounder and CEO · Replit
Andrew BosworthChief Technology Officer; Head of Reality Labs · Meta
Andrew LaackProduct engineer · Imbue
Andrew WhiteHead of Science and co-founder · FutureHouse
Andy KonwinskiCo-founder, MoTS, Board; Laude Ventures Co-founder and GP · Laude Institute and Laude Ventures
Arvind JainFounder and CEO · Glean
Azita MartinLeads the retail team, responsible for global go-to-market strategy · NVIDIA
Ben DavisCo-host · Nerd Snipe
Ben TossellFounder and writer · Ben's Bites
Binyuan HuiBuilders & open source
Boris ChernySoftware Engineer; creator and Head of Claude Code · Anthropic
Bret TaylorCo-founder · Sierra
Brian SchimpfCo-founder and CEO · Anduril Industries
Brooklyn NicholsonContributor · Hermes Agent (open-source project)
Charles LamannaExecutive Vice President, Copilot, Agents, and Platform · Microsoft
Clare LiguoriSenior Principal Software Engineer, AWS Agentic AI (at Amazon since 2014) · Amazon Web Services
Clay BavorCo-founder · Sierra
Dane KnechtChief Technology Officer · Cloudflare
David HaCo-Founder & CEO · Sakana AI
David OndrejCreator and host · David Ondrej (YouTube channel)
Den DelimarskyLead Maintainer (Core Maintainer until April 2026) · Model Context Protocol project
Denis YaratsCo-founder and CTO · Perplexity
Francesca RossiIBM Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance; IBM Fellow · IBM Research
Gabe PereyraPresident and co-founder · Harvey
Graham NeubigAssociate Professor, Language Technologies Institute · Carnegie Mellon University
Greg KamradtPresident and board member · ARC Prize Foundation
Hanlin TangCTO - Neural Networks · Databricks
Harrison ChaseCo-founder · LangChain
Hyung Won ChungBuilders & open source
Jack DorseyBlock Head, Chairman and co-founder · Block
Jacob AndreouEVP, Copilot · Microsoft
Jakob FoersterAssociate Professor, Department of Engineering Science · University of Oxford
James BrazaEECS PhD student · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jared PalmerVP of Engineering · Cognition
Jason WeiWorks at Meta Superintelligence Labs · Meta Superintelligence Labs
Jason WestonResearch Scientist · Meta (Meta Superintelligence Labs)
Jay ParikhExecutive Vice President, CoreAI · Microsoft
Jeff CluneProfessor, Computer Science · University of British Columbia
Jerry LiuCEO and co-founder · LlamaIndex
Jesse GenetCreator · Jesse Genet (YouTube channel)
Jianfeng GaoTechnical Fellow & Corporate Vice President · Microsoft
Jiaxuan YouAssistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science; leads U Lab · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jim FanSenior Research Scientist and Lead of the AI Agents Initiative; co-lead of the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group, with Yuke Zhu · NVIDIA
Jim ZemlinCEO (earlier announcements give the title as Executive Director) · The Linux Foundation
John YangComputer Science PhD student · Stanford University
Joseph E. GonzalezAssociate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences · University of California, Berkeley
Josh AlbrechtCTO and co-founder · Imbue
Josh WoodwardVP, Google Labs, Gemini app & AI Studio · Google
Junyang LinIndependent researcher · Independent
Kai FronsdalResearch Engineer (joined 2026) · Meridian Labs
Kanjun QiuCEO and co-founder · Imbue
Kari BriskiVP, AI Software Product Management · NVIDIA
Katja HofmannPartner Research Manager, co-leading the People-Centric AI research area · Microsoft Research Cambridge
Kenneth StanleySVP of Open-Endedness · Lila Sciences
Kilian LieretAI Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs (joined February 2026) · Meta
Kristian FagerlieCreator · All About AI
Lars GrammelWorks on the AI SDK; co-author of its release posts since 2024 · Vercel
Leandro von WerraMachine learning engineer in the open-source team · Hugging Face
Liam OttleyCo-CEO and Co-Founder · Morningside AI
Maarten SapAssistant Professor, Language Technologies Institute (courtesy appointment in HCII) · Carnegie Mellon University
Manik SurtaniCTO and Co-founder · Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
mariaContributor · T3 Code (open-source project)
Mario RodriguezChief Product Officer · GitHub
May HabibCEO and co-founder · WRITER
Mazin GilbertExecutive Director · Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
Michele CatastaPresident (joined as VP of AI in 2023) · Replit
Mike KnoopCo-founder and board member · ARC Prize Foundation
Nathan LabenzHost · The Cognitive Revolution
Niko GrupenHead of Applied Research (joined early 2023) · Harvey
Noam BrownResearch Scientist · OpenAI
Olivier ChafikAnthropic is the company listed on Chafik's GitHub profile · Anthropic
Omar KhattabAssistant Professor (leads the MIT OASYS lab) · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS and CSAIL)
Peter SteinbergerCreator of OpenClaw and "Clawfather" of the foundation, continuing to steward the project · OpenClaw Foundation
Peter YangWriter and podcast host · Behind the Craft
Philipp SchmidStaff Engineer (Developer Experience and Developer Relations) · Google DeepMind
Pushmeet KohliVice President · Google DeepMind
Qingyun WuAssistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology · Penn State University
Robert BrennanCEO · All Hands AI (OpenHands)
Ruslan SalakhutdinovUPMC Professor of Computer Science, Machine Learning Department · Carnegie Mellon University
Sabrina RamonovFounder · Blotato
Sam RodriquesCEO and co-founder · FutureHouse
Saoud RizwanFounder · Cline
Scott WuFounder and CEO · Cognition
Shawn WangWriter and podcast host · Latent Space
Shimon WhitesonProfessor of Computer Science · University of Oxford
Shunyu YaoBuilders & open source
Siddharth NarayananListed organization on GitHub profile · Edison Scientific
Simon SuoCo-founder · LlamaIndex
Stefano SoattoVice president and distinguished scientist, AWS Agentic AI · Amazon Web Services (Amazon)
Swami SivasubramanianVice President of Agentic AI, AWS · Amazon Web Services (Amazon)
TekniumCo-founder · Nous Research
Thomas KurianCEO, Google Cloud · Google Cloud
Thomas ScialomListed with GenAI, Meta on 2023 papers and with Meta Superintelligence Labs on a 2025 paper and a February 2026 paper (Gaia2) · Meta
Tina HuangFounder and CEO · Lonely Octopus
Vasi PhilominExecutive Vice President and Head of Data and AI · Siemens
Winston WeinbergCEO and co-founder · Harvey
X FreezeEngineer, writer and researcher · X Freeze (independent)
Xingyao WangCo-founder and Chief AI Officer · All Hands AI (OpenHands)
Yoav ShohamChairman & Co-Founder · AI21 Labs

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