Jason D. Lee

He published several influential papers in theory of deep learning, reinforcement learning, optimization, LLMs and AI safety including NeurIPS best student paper award.

Emma Pierson

She has made a number of society-shaking observations at the intersection of machine learning, society and healthcare. She has been doing interesting work on algorithmic fairness and ML for healthcare.

Xiang Ren

He published many papers in the field of NLP including 3 best paper awards (ACL, NAACL, and WWW). He is also researching on LLMs, neuro-symbolic reasoning and knowledge graphs.

Connor W. Coley

He has pushed the boundaries of molecular/material design using advanced AI technologies and also along the way made contributions to AI itself. He has received many outstanding prizes and still fairly early in career.

Virginia Smith

She has made significant contributions to federated learning decentralizing data and training large scale models, as well as to a broader set of distributed and efficient learning and inference.