35+ Best AI Influencers Dominating 2024 (AI Luminaries to Watch)

Andrew Ng (born 1976) is a British-American computer scientist renowned for his work on machine learning and AI. He is the founder of DeepLearning.AI, CEO of Landing AI, and co-founder of Coursera.

He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University's Computer Science department. Ng was the founding lead of the Google Brain team and was Chief Scientist at Baidu, where he led the company's AI Group.

Andreas C. Müller is a renowned figure in the field of machine learning and data analysis. He is currently serving as a Principal Research SDE at Microsoft and is a core developer of the scikit-learn project, a popular machine learning library in Python.

Müller received his PhD in machine learning from the University of Bonn and has held positions at Amazon Development Center Germany and the University of Bonn.

Alex J. Champandard is an AI expert and entrepreneur, known for co-founding creative.ai, which develops AI-assisted tools for the creative industries.

With a strong academic background in AI, holding degrees from York and Edinburgh, he frequently speaks on artificial intelligence research.

Champandard has contributed to the AI Game Programming Wisdom series and is a core part of the AI Interface Standards Committee.

Angelica Lim is an American-Canadian AI roboticist and assistant professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

She founded the SFU Rosie Lab which specializes in AI software for exploring the emotional capabilities of machines.

Lim has a PhD in Computer Science from Kyoto University and previously worked at SoftBank Robotics, Honda Research Institute Japan, and Aldebaran Robotics on robots like Pepper.

Andy Fitze is an award-winning digital cognitive strategist and global AI advisor who co-founded SwissCognitive, the leading AI network, with Dalith Steiger.

He has over 30 years of experience in IT leadership roles at major companies like PostFinance and Ruag. Andy serves on the board of multiple AI organizations like ICT Switzerland and advises startups on digital transformation.

Allie K. Miller is an artificial intelligence leader, advisor, and investor based in New York City. She was previously the Global Head of Machine Learning Business Development at Amazon Web Services, advising top machine learning researchers and founders.

Prior to that, she built AI products at IBM across computer vision, conversation, data, and regulation. Outside of work, Allie is an ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, speaks globally about AI, and created guidebooks on building successful AI projects.

Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist specializing in deep learning and computer vision. He is currently working at OpenAI and was previously the Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the Autopilot vision team.

Karpathy has made significant contributions in areas like image recognition and self-driving cars. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford under Fei-Fei Li and co-founded the AI lab OpenAI.

Karpathy is considered an authority in AI and pioneered Stanford's CS231n course on convolutional neural networks.

Aishwarya Srinivasan is a data science and AI expert. She works at Google Cloud as a developer advocate and is passionate about making AI more accessible. Srinivasan shares her knowledge by creating tutorials and resources for learning about machine learning and MLOps.

She is active on platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube where she posts educational content. Her LinkedIn profile has over 47,000 followers. She is also involved with the Women in Data Science community.

Bernard Marr is a world-renowned futurist, influencer, and thought leader in business and technology. Born near Hamburg, Germany, he moved to Cambridge, England, to complete his degrees in business, engineering, and information technology.

Marr is a best-selling author of over 20 books and a regular Forbes columnist. He has received accolades such as the Business Book of the Year award and is recognized as a top business influencer by LinkedIn.

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is an American computer scientist known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that catalyzed rapid advances in computer vision.

She is the Sequoia Professor at Stanford University and Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).

Her research focuses on AI, machine learning, computer vision, and healthcare applications. Dr. Li has over 300 publications and received numerous honors including election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Dr. Craig Brown is a top technology expert and consultant with over 30 years of experience covering data intelligence, data-driven insights, leadership, and innovation.

He is known for his thought leadership articles on topics like data governance, big data, cloud computing, and AI. Dr. Brown has over 691K followers on LinkedIn and is considered an influencer in the tech industry.

Dr. Marcell Vollmer is the Chief Executive Officer of MV Procu GmbH and an expert advisor on digital transformation, procurement, supply chain operations, and future of work strategies for organizations globally.

He has over 25 years of experience working with international companies like SAP, Celonis, Boston Consulting Group, and DHL where he has led several process optimization and post-merger integration projects.

Dr. Sally Eaves is an award-winning professor, author, and international keynote speaker on emerging technologies like blockchain, AI, 5G, and cybersecurity.

Described as the "torchbearer for ethical tech", she advises organizations on digital transformation for business and social good.

Sally has been recognized by the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. She is Chief Technology Officer of MindFit and Professor of FinTech.

Dr. Demis Hassabis is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, an AI company acquired by Google in 2014.

He was a chess prodigy as a child and designed the popular video game Theme Park at age 17. Hassabis has degrees in computer science and neuroscience from Cambridge, UCL, MIT, and Harvard.

His research on imagination and memory was named one of the top scientific breakthroughs of 2007 by science magazine.

Hassabis is CEO of DeepMind, where he leads the development of groundbreaking AI like AlphaGo. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has won numerous awards.

Elon Musk, born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, is a visionary entrepreneur and engineer who has founded several groundbreaking companies.

He is the CEO and lead designer of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc., founder of The Boring Company, and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI.

Fabio Moioli is an AI and technology industry expert who serves as a Consultant at Spencer Stuart, advising clients on technology transformations and leadership.

He has over 15 years of experience across companies like Microsoft, Capgemini, McKinsey, and Ericsson. Moioli is passionate about the ethical implications of AI and frequently speaks at conferences.

Fabio Moioli teaches courses at institutions including Singularity University, Harvard Business School, and Politecnico di Milano.

François Chollet is a French software engineer and AI researcher at Google. He created the Keras deep learning library and is a major contributor to TensorFlow.

Chollet focuses on computer vision, applying machine learning to reasoning, and achieving general intelligence in AI.

He has a Master's in Engineering from ENSTA Paris and began working at Google in 2015. Chollet won the Global Swiss AI Award for breakthroughs in AI.

Geoffrey Hinton is an eminent computer scientist and cognitive psychologist known as a "godfather of artificial intelligence" for his pioneering work on neural networks and deep learning.

He spent over 30 years as a professor at the University of Toronto before joining Google in 2013. Hinton recently left Google over concerns about the societal impacts of AI.

Gary Marcus is a leading cognitive scientist and AI critic known for his skepticism of deep learning. He was a psychology professor at NYU for over 20 years and founded the machine learning startup Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber in 2016.

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro is a renowned data scientist and founder of KDnuggets, a leading analytics and data science publication. He co-founded the annual KDD data mining conferences and the ACM SIGKDD professional group.

Gregory is considered an influential expert in the fields of data mining, knowledge discovery, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Hilary Mason is an influential data scientist and entrepreneur, known for co-founding Fast Forward Labs, a machine intelligence research company, and serving as the Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners.

She was also the Chief Scientist at Bitly and co-founded HackNY. Mason has been recognized on the Forbes 40 Under 40 Ones to Watch list and Crain’s New York 40 Under Forty list.

Jürgen Schmidhuber is a pioneering German computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence, known for his work on recurrent neural networks, deep learning, and artificial general intelligence.

Described as the "godfather of modern AI", Schmidhuber has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers and received numerous awards, including the IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award. His goal is to build an AI smarter than himself.

Karen Hao is an American journalist covering artificial intelligence's societal impacts. Previously a foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal reporting on China's tech industry, she now writes for The Atlantic.

Karen Hao has won awards for her AI coverage on issues like facial recognition and algorithmic bias. She co-produces the podcast In Machines We Trust and writes a popular newsletter called The Algorithm.

Kate Crawford is a leading interdisciplinary scholar studying the social and political implications of artificial intelligence.

Her award-winning research and creative projects have focused on the environmental, historical, and ethical contexts of large-scale data systems and AI.

Dr. Kirk D. Borne is a renowned data scientist and astrophysicist, currently serving as the Chief Science Officer at DataPrime, Inc.

He has over 20 years of experience supporting NASA space science missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope.

Lex Fridman is a Russian-American computer scientist, podcaster, and research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work in artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and human-robot interaction.

Fridman hosts the popular "Lex Fridman Podcast," where he engages in deep conversations about intelligence, consciousness, love, and power with a variety of guests.

Martin Ford is an American futurist and author who focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on the economy and society.

He is best known for his 2015 New York Times bestseller "Rise of the Robots", which examines the threat of automation and job loss.

Maria Luciana Axente is a globally recognized AI ethics expert and public policy contributor. She serves as the Responsible AI and AI for Good Lead at PwC UK, where she advises partners across various sectors on ethical AI implementation.

Axente is an Advisory Board member of the UK Government All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI, a member of BSI/ISO & IEEE AI standard groups, and a Fellow of the RSA.

Nazareen Ebrahim is a prominent figure in the field of AI ethics and technology. She is the Founder and CEO of Naz Consulting International and the AI Ethics Officer of Socially Acceptable, a South African non-profit organization focusing on AI ethics and technology research.

Ebrahim is also an experienced speaker and moderator at technology conferences and events. Her work has been recognized globally, and she was listed among the "100 Brilliant Women in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics 2024".

Oriol Vinyals is a Spanish machine learning researcher and the principal research scientist at DeepMind. He is known for co-inventing the seq2seq model and leading the AlphaStar research group, which developed an AI capable of playing StarCraft II at a high level.

Oriol Vinyals was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the most innovative young people in 2016. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has made significant contributions to the field of AI, with his work being widely cited and featured in mainstream media.

Ronald van Loon is a globally recognized thought leader in the field of data and analytics. He is the CEO and Principal Analyst at Intelligent World, a data and analytics consultancy firm.

He is also an Advisory Board Member and course advisor for leading professional certification training companies.

Rachel Thomas is an American computer scientist, co-founder of fast.ai, and a former founding Director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the University of San Francisco.

She has a Ph.D. from Duke University and has been recognized by Forbes as one of the 20 most incredible women in AI.

Rachel Thomas has worked as a data scientist at Uber and as a teacher at Hackbright Academy. She is currently focused on her studies as a Masters of Microbiology-Immunology student.

Spiros Margaris is a venture capitalist, futurist, and founder of Margaris Ventures. He is a globally recognized thought leader in fintech, AI, blockchain, and insurtech.

Spiros achieved the “Triple Crown” ranking as the No. 1 influencer in fintech, blockchain, and AI by Onalytica.

Shemmy Majewski is a prominent figure in the field of artificial intelligence, serving as the CEO of Dlabs.AI. His career began as a Data Scientist at CERN, and he has since co-founded two companies: DiabetesLab Ltd. and DLabs Ltd.

Majewski's work primarily focuses on increasing business efficiency through AI and transforming healthcare with predictive analytics.

Yoshua Bengio is a prominent computer scientist, best known for his work in deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI).

Born on March 5, 1964, in Paris, France, he is a professor at the Université de Montréal and the scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA).

Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, was awarded the Turing Award in 2018 for his contributions to deep learning.

He is deeply concerned about the social impact of AI and has been involved in the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.

Yann LeCun is a pioneering computer scientist and a key figure in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly known for his work on machine learning, computer vision, and neural networks.

He is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta (formerly Facebook) and a Silver Professor at New York University, with affiliations to various departments such as Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering.