Scott Niekum

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BIO

Associate professor at UMass Amherst CICS. AIignment, safety, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and robotics.

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@scottniekum

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Topics

Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning29.4%

AI Alignment18.6%

RL Conference15.7%

Academic Hiring13.5%

Robot Learning8.4%

Imitation Learning5.6%

RLHF5.3%

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Top followers

#13

Chelsea Finn

@chelseabfinn

Asst Prof of CS & EE @Stanford Co-founder of Physical Intelligence @physical_int PhD from @Berkeley_EECS, EECS BS from @MIT

#14

Kyunghyun Cho

@kchonyc

a mediocre combination of a mediocre professor at @nyuniversity and a mediocre CEO at @OrtetAI

#29

Sam Bowman

@sleepinyourhat

AI alignment + LLMs at Anthropic. On leave from NYU. Views not employers'. No relation to @s8mb. Into @givingwhatwecan.

#30

Zachary Lipton

@zacharylipton

Professor: CMU/@acmi_lab, Cofounder: @AbridgeHQ, Creator: @d2l_ai & http://approximatelycorrect.com, Relapsing 🎷

#38

Jacob Andreas

@jacobandreas

Teaching computers to read. Assoc. prof @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL / @NLP_MIT (he/him). http://lingo.csail.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/jda/www

#39

Jan Leike

@janleike

AI research @AnthropicAI. Previously OpenAI & DeepMind. Optimizing for a post-AGI future where humanity flourishes. Opinions aren't my employer's.

#42

Noam Brown

@polynoamial

Researching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o-series 🍓 reasoning models

#51

Tim Rocktäschel

@_rockt

Teaching AI the joy of invention at @Recursive_SI, Professor of AI @AI_UCL, PI @BOLD_Lab_AI, Fellow @ELLISforEurope. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @AIatMeta @CompSciOxford

#54

hardmaru

@hardmaru

Co-Founder and CEO @SakanaAILabs 🎏

#57

Soumith Chintala

@soumithchintala

Building new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

#58

Shane Gu

@shaneguML

Sr. Staff RS GenAI @GoogleDeepMind. 🇯🇵-born 🇨🇳🇨🇦. ex: Omni Thinking, Gemini 1.5-3, GPT-4 @OpenAI, GoogBrain Robotics (JP: @shanegJP). Personal opinions.

#70

Nathan Lambert

@natolambert

Open model research, founder, director @trillium_labs. Prev. co-led Olmo at Ai2. Writes @interconnectsai, wrote http://posttrainingbook.com

#77

Luke Zettlemoyer

@LukeZettlemoyer

#81

Zico Kolter

@zicokolter

Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at @CarnegieMellon. Board member @OpenAI and @Qualcomm. Chief Scientist @GraySwanAI.

#87

Ben Poole

@poolio

ex-google brain and deepmind. phd in neural nonsense from stanford.

#91

Natasha Jaques

@natashajaques

Assistant Professor leading the Social RL Lab https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/ @uwcse and Staff Research Scientist at @GoogleAI.

#113

Yisong Yue

@yisongyue

AI Professor @Caltech (@YueLabCaltech)

#118

Diyi Yang

@Diyi_Yang

Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab Part time @humansand LLMs for Humans

#126

Jakob Foerster

@j_foerst

Associate Prof in ML @UniofOxford. Something Something Research Scientist @MetaAI. Something @BOLD_LAB_AI. Always #teamhuman. Opinions belong to the world.

#128

Stefano Ermon

@StefanoErmon

AI Prof @Stanford | Cofounder @_inception_ai | Co-inventor of DDIM, FlashAttention, DPO, GAIL, and score-based/diffusion models

#143

Brandon Amos

@brandondamos

🧙 RL @Reflection_AI past: @MetaAi @GoogleDeepmind @SCSatCMU @Cornell_Tech

#152

@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)

@timnitGebru

Author: Deep Unlearning (preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl) Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)

#155

Luke Metz

@Luke_Metz

Meta Previously: Thinking Machines, OpenAI, Google Brain

#162

Phillip Isola

@phillip_isola

Associate Professor in EECS at MIT, trying to understand intelligence.

#167

Catherine Olsson

@catherineols

Hanging out with Claude, improving its behavior, and building tools to support that @AnthropicAI 😁 prev: @open_phil @googlebrain @openai (@microcovid)

#168

Yoav Artzi

@yoavartzi

Research/prof @cs_cornell + @cornell_tech🚡 / http://nlp.cornell.edu / researcher @GoogleDeepMind / building @COLM_conf / ex @arxiv

#170

Mark Riedl

@mark_riedl

AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor @GeorgiaTech. Associate Director @MLatGT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him

#173

Joshua Achiam

@jachiam0

Freedom, flourishing, and abundance. Prev: @openai. Main author of http://spinningup.openai.com

#185

Anca Dragan

@ancadianadragan

Google DeepMind • AI safety & alignment • model behavior • associate professor @ UC Berkeley EECS

#201

Tom Goldstein

@tomgoldsteincs

Professor at UMD. AI security & privacy, algorithmic bias, foundations of ML. Follow me for commentary on state-of-the-art AI.

#212

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

#215

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

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

#223

Greg Durrett

@gregd_nlp

Associate professor at NYU (Courant CS + Center for Data Science) | advisor for @bespokelabsai | large language models and NLP | he/him

#232

Yang Song

@DrYangSong

Research Principal of MSL

#251

Joelle Pineau

@jpineau1

Chief AI Officer, @cohere Professor of Computer Science, @mcgillu Core academic member, @Mila_Quebec Ex-Meta (FAIR team)

#252

Jason Baldridge

@jasonbaldridge

Research scientist at Google DeepMind in London working on generative media.

#256

Animesh Garg

@animesh_garg

Frontier AI & Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Autonomy. @GeorgiaTech. @microagi Prev @nvidia @UCberkeley @stanford @UofT

#263

Eunsol Choi

@eunsolc

on natural language processing / machine learning. assistant prof at @NYUDataScience @NYU_Courant prev @UTCompSci @googleai, @uwcse, @Cornell.

#275

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

#286

Shimon Whiteson

@shimon8282

Research Director at Google DeepMind

#310

Kate Crawford

@katecrawford

Professor, researcher, maker of things Book: ATLAS OF AI Latest: CALCULATING EMPIRES https://calculatingempires.net | MSR-NYC | @USC | Knowing Machines

#318

Eugene Vinitsky 🦋

@EugeneVinitsky

This account only exists so no on else can occupy it. Please contact through other means. Lab website: http://emerge-lab.github.io

#323

Marc G. Bellemare

@marcgbellemare

Modelling @ Cohere. Ex RL research lead at Google Brain, DeepMind. Textbook author. Co-founder, Reliant AI.

#331

Jiajun Wu

@jiajunwu_cs

Assistant Professor at @Stanford CS

#348

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.

#359

Emma Brunskill

@EmmaBrunskill

Associate professor, Computer Science. Stanford. Stanford's Human Centered AI (HAI) Institute. Opinions expressed are my own.

#395

Csaba Szepesvari

@CsabaSzepesvari

"If there is not folly in the world, then the world itself is folly. You must understand that mistakes are not always regrets." - Paul Tobin, Bandette🤠

#406

Feryal

@FeryalMP

Gemini ♊️ @GoogleDeepMind

#407

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.

#413

Dorsa Sadigh

@DorsaSadigh

CS Faculty @Stanford, @StanfordAILab, @StanfordHAI Research scientist @GoogleDeepMind PhD and BS from @Berkeley_EECS