Pan Lu @COLM2026

Luke Zettlemoyer

@LukeZettlemoyer

rohan anil

@_arohan_

co-founder, board @coreauto - and continuing to aspire to understand deep learning.

Christian Szegedy

@ChrSzegedy

#deeplearning, #ai research scientist. Opinions are mine.

Yisong Yue

@yisongyue

AI Professor @Caltech (@YueLabCaltech)

Matthew Johnson

@SingularMattrix

Researcher at Google Brain. I work on JAX (https://github.com/google/jax).

Eric Wallace

@Eric_Wallace_

research @openai

Saining Xie

@sainingxie

cofounder & chief science officer at @amilabs | faculty @nyu_courant | prev: @googledeepmind @meta (fair) @ucsandiego | ynwa

Sebastian Raschka

@rasbt

ML/AI research engineer. Ex stats professor. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D) & reasoning (https://mng.bz/lZ5B)

Yuandong Tian

@tydsh

Co-founder of @Recursive_SI. ex-Meta FAIR Director. ex-Google. Reasoning, Optimization and Understanding LLM. Novelist in spare time. PhD in @CMU_Robotics.

Denny Zhou

@denny_zhou

@Meta Superintelligence. Prev: Founded & led the Reasoning Team at @Google Brain / Google DeepMind (2021-2026), co-founded COLM

Rowan Zellers

@rown

multimodal @thinkymachines. I also like to climb rocks and throw pottery. http://rowanzellers.com (he/him)

Mohit Bansal

@mohitban47

Parker Distinguished Prof @UNC. PECASE/ACL/AAAI Fellow. Director http://MURGeLab.cs.unc.edu (@unc_ai_group). Past @Berkeley_AI @TTIC_Connect @IITKanpur #NLP #CV

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

Researcher @Microsoft | Prof @UWMadison (on leave) | babas of Inez Lily.

Ashish Vaswani

@ashVaswani

Prof. Anima Anandkumar

@AnimaAnandkumar

AI+Science, Co-Founder @accelerated_u, Bren Professor @caltech, Time100, Fmr Sr Director of #AI research @nvidia Fmr Principal Scientist @awscloud

Niloofar

@niloofar_mire

Technical staff @humansand, asst. prof @LTIatCMU @CMU_EPP, ex RS in @AIatMeta, postdoc @uwcse, Ph.D. @ucsd_cse, former @MSFTResearch -- NAACL & ACL pr chair

Akari Asai

@AkariAsai

Assistant Professor @SCSatCMU & research scientist @allen_ai

Sameer Singh

@sameer_

Safety at @AIatMeta and Prof at @UCIrvine, prev Cofounder @SpiffyAI (aka Envive), works on reliable LLMs, explanations for A, safety, and debugging/evaluation.

Luca Soldaini 🎀

@soldni

data mines are my passion ⛏️ mts @MicrosoftAI / ex Olmo co-lead @allen_ai / posts mine, leave my employer alone 🌈

Songlin Yang

@SonglinYang4

pretraining @thinkymachines. Prev. PhD @MIT_CSAIL. INTP 🐱. she/her/hers.

Junyang Lin

@JustinLin610

building p7k @pragmatik_labs | ❤️ 🍵 ☕️

Kai-Wei Chang

@kaiwei_chang

Associate Professor @UCLAengineering/@UCLA. Area: #NLProc/#ML/#AI http://kwchang.net

Shunyu Yao

@ShunyuYao12

Language agents

Zhou Yu

@Zhou_Yu_AI

Founder of http://Arklex.ai, Associate Professor at Columbia. Making ai agent design and deployment easy, safe, and fast! Forbes 30 under 30.

Weijia Shi

@WeijiaShi2

Pretraining @AnthropicAI @cornell_tech @uwnlp

Jordan Boyd-Graber

@boydgraber

Trivia Nerd, NLPer, Dad, Colorado native in Singapore Working on QA, negotiating/cooperating bots, AI explanations Exemplar for absent-minded professor

Quanquan Gu

@QuanquanGu

Founder of Geodesic Intelligence @Geodesiclab | Professor @UCLA | Opinions are my own

William Wang

@WilliamWangNLP

CEO & Founder, @AlphaDesignAI. We make http://ChipAgents.ai I'm also Mellichamp Chair Prof. at UCSB CS. PhD @ CMU SCS.

Xin Eric Wang @ COLM 2026

@xwang_lk

Professor @ucsantabarbara. Head of Research @SimularAI. Director @ucsbcrml @UCSB_AI. Build the Science of AI Agents. AI for Humanity in the long run.

Yu Su

@ysu_nlp

co-founder @NeoCognition | prof. @osunlp | building towards abundance of specialized intelligence

Sebastian Gehrmann

@sebgehr

Head of Responsible AI, CTO office @Bloomberg. Formerly LLM evals @ Google / PhD @ Harvard. views my own

Nanyun (Violet) Peng

@VioletNPeng

Associated Professor@UCLA (leave), Scientist and manager@Google. AI and Infra, AI for science, AI creativity, event. (she/her/hers). Opinions are my own.

Yuhuai (Tony) Wu

@Yuhu_ai_

know thyself. co-founder @xai.

Aditya Grover

@adityagrover_

Co-Founder & CTO @_inception_ai. AI Prof @UCLA. CS PhD @Stanford. Denoising intelligence.

Sarah Wiegreffe

@sarahwiegreffe

Research in NLP & trustworthy ML (mostly interpretability). Trying to make LMs more transparent, reliable, & safe. Assistant prof @umdcs @clipumd Views my own.

Yu Bai

@yubai01

Training Accelerations @OpenAI. Previously @SFResearch, PhD @Stanford.

Cas (Stephen Casper)

@StephenLCasper

Computer scientist working on AI safeguards, incidents, & gov research. Assistant professor @Kennedy_School @Harvard. https://stephencasper.com/

Lucy Li

@lucy3_li

Assistant prof @WisconsinCS. Prev @UCBerkeley, @allen_ai, @MSFTResearch, @stanfordnlp, @uwnlp. More silly at http://lucy3.bsky.social.

Sharif Shameem

@sharifshameem

making models @openai

Sean Welleck

@wellecks

Assistant Professor at CMU. Marathoner, @thesisreview.

Victoria X Lin

@VictoriaLinML

MTS @thinkymachines | Native Multimodal Intelligence Prev: @AIatMeta @SFResearch • PhD @uwcse

Leo Boytsov

@srchvrs

Machine learning scientist and engineer @Oracle speaking πtorch & C++. Past @awscloud, @LTIatCMU. Opinions sampled from MY OWN 100T param LM.

Ani Nenkova

@ani_nenkova

language technology

Kyle Lo

@kylelostat

language models, mts @MicrosoftAI, prev co-lead of Olmo @allen_ai, @uwcse, he/him, http://kylelo.bsky.social🧋

Yao Fu

@Francis_YAO_

Prev. Grok 4.5/4.6 pretraining scaling @xAI; Gemini 3 perception and project Astra @GoogleDeepMind

Yizhong Wang

@yizhongwyz

Researcher at ByteDance Seed, Incoming Asst Prof @UTAustin. Agent training, agents for science discovery.

hattie

@oh_that_hat

Building friendly AI.