Reinforcement learning
58 people are listed under this topic in the USASI directory. Most common companies: Google DeepMind (8), Hugging Face (3), Microsoft (3), OpenAI (3), Prime Intellect (3).
Top companies in Reinforcement learning
- Google DeepMind 8
- Hugging Face 3
- Microsoft 3
- OpenAI 3
- Prime Intellect 3
- Carnegie Mellon University 2
- Meta 2
- Perplexity 2
- UC Berkeley 2
- University of Oxford 2
- Agility Robotics 1
- Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute 1
People
- Adam GleaveCo-founder and CEO (since January 2022) · FAR.AI
- Aditya GroverCo-founder and CTO · Inception
- Albert JiangResearch scientist (since June 2023) · Mistral AI
- Alexander WettigResearcher working on RL for the Composer models · Cursor (Anysphere)
- Aravind SrinivasCofounder and CEO · Perplexity
- Bob McGrewBuilders & open source
- Chelsea FinnAssistant Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering · Stanford University
- David HaCo-Founder & CEO · Sakana AI
- David SilverCEO · Ineffable Intelligence
- Deepak PathakCo-founder and CEO · Skild AI
- Denis YaratsCo-founder and CTO · Perplexity
- Denny BritzBuilders & open source
- Edward BeechingMachine Learning Research Scientist · Hugging Face
- Eiso KantCo-founder and co-CEO · Poolside
- Eric MitchellCo-lead of the Post-training Frontiers team (with Yann Dubois) · OpenAI
- Gavriel StateSenior Director for Simulation and AI · NVIDIA
- Hado van HasseltResearch scientist · Google DeepMind
- Jakob FoersterAssociate Professor, Department of Engineering Science · University of Oxford
- Jakub PachockiChief Scientist · OpenAI
- Jan LeikeLeads the Alignment Science team · Anthropic
- Jeff CluneProfessor, Computer Science · University of British Columbia
- Joelle PineauChief AI Officer · Cohere
- Johannes HagemannCo-founder and Chief Technology Officer · Prime Intellect
- John LangfordPartner Researcher Manager · Microsoft Research
- John SchulmanCofounder and chief scientist · Thinking Machines Lab
- Jonathan HurstCo-founder and Chief Robot Officer · Agility Robotics
- Josh AlbrechtCTO and co-founder · Imbue
- Justin FuResearch scientist, Waymo Research (since August 2021) · Waymo
- Katja HofmannPartner Research Manager, co-leading the People-Centric AI research area · Microsoft Research Cambridge
- Kenneth StanleySVP of Open-Endedness · Lila Sciences
- Koray KavukcuogluSVP, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind
- Leandro von WerraMachine learning engineer in the open-source team · Hugging Face
- Lewis TunstallMachine learning engineer working on post-training · Hugging Face
- Lilian WengAuthor · Lil'Log
- Mika SenghaasResearch engineer · Prime Intellect
- Misha DenilBuilders & open source
- Nathan LambertCo-founder and Executive Director · Trillium Labs
- Niko GrupenHead of Applied Research (joined early 2023) · Harvey
- Noam BrownResearch Scientist · OpenAI
- Oriol VinyalsVice President, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind
- Paul ChristianoExecutive Director · Alignment Research Center
- Pieter AbbeelProfessor, Jim Gray Chair of Engineering; Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab; Co-Director of BAIR · University of California, Berkeley
- Richard SuttonProfessor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science · University of Alberta
- Sami JaghouarResearch lead ("leading research" at Prime Intellect, per Jaghouar's GitHub profile, October 2026) · Prime Intellect
- Sergey LevineAssociate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences · University of California, Berkeley
- Shengjia ZhaoChief Scientist for the new lab effort (as stated by Meta in July 2025) · Meta Superintelligence Labs
- Shimon WhitesonProfessor of Computer Science · University of Oxford
- Shixiang Shane GuSenior Staff Research Scientist (Gemini Thinking team) · Google DeepMind
- Siddharth NarayananListed organization on GitHub profile · Edison Scientific
- Susan ZhangBuilders & open source
- Timothy LillicrapDirector of Research · Google DeepMind
- Tom SchaulSenior staff research scientist; leads a reinforcement learning team · Google DeepMind
- Tuomas HaarnojaBuilders & open source
- Vikash KumarCo-founder, CEO · Myolab.ai
- Volodymyr MnihResearch scientist · Google DeepMind
- Weizhu ChenTechnical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, leading a modeling team · Microsoft AI
- Wojciech ZarembaHead of AI Resilience · OpenAI Foundation
- Younes BelkadaBuilders & open source
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