The first batch of nominees for the 2025 National Academy of Artificial Intelligence academicians and corresponding academicians list (Part 1)


1. Quoc V. Le

Research Scientist

Google

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in AAAI/IJCAI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Speech Recognition

 

2. Ming-Wei Chang

Research Scientist

Google Deepmind

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in NLP

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Natural Language Processing

 

3. Kenton Lee

Research Scientist

Google Research

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in NLP

 

4. Kristina Toutanova

Assistant professor

Google Research Seattle;Department of Linguistics, University of Washington

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in NLP

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Natural Language Processing

 

5. Jacob Devlin

Software Engineer

Google

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in NLP

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Natural Language Processing

 

6. Liang-Chieh (Jay) Chen

Research Scientist

ByteDance

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

7. Sergey Levine

Associate professor

Robotic Artificial Intelligence and Learning Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Graphics

 

8. Kaiming He

Research Scientist

Facebook AI Research

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Computer Vision

 

9. Ross B. Girshick

Research Scientist

Facebook AI Research

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Multimedia

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Computer Vision

 

10. Sylvain Gelly

Deep Learning Researcher

Google Brain

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

11. Mingxing Tan

Research Scientist

Waymo Research;Google Research

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

12. Alec Radford

Head of Research

OpenAI;Indico Data Solutions

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

13. Neil Houlsby

Senior Staff Research Scientist

Google Brain

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

14. Xiaohua Zhai

Staff Researcher

Google Research

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

15. Sandhini Agarwal

AI Policy Researcher

OpenAI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

16. Lucas Beyer

Senior Research Engineer

Google Brain

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

17. Alexander Kolesnikov

Senior Research Software Engineer

Google DeepMind

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

18. Jakob Uszkoreit

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Inceptive

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Machine Learning

 

19. Pieter Abbeel

Professor

OpenAI;Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley;Covariant.ai

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Robotics

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Graphics

 

20. Andrew G. Howard

Learned scholar

Department of Computer Science, Columbia University;Google AI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

21. Alexey Dosovitskiy

Staff Research Scientist

Google

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

22. Girish Sastry

researcher

OpenAI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

23. Mostafa Dehghani

Research Scientist

Google Brain

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

24. Thomas Unterthiner

researcher

Institute of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Johannes Kepler University Linz;Google

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

25. Mark Sandler

Research Scientist

Google Research

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

26. Tero Karras

Distinguished Research Scientist

Distinguished Research Scientist, NVIDIA Research

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

27. Georg Heigold

Engineer

Apple

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

28. Hartwig Adam

Engineering Director

Google Research

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

29. Ilya Sutskever

Co-Founder

Safe Superintelligence Inc

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Machine Learning

 

30. Timo Aila

Senior Distinguished Research Scientist

NVIDIA

 

31. Prafulla Dhariwal

Research Scientist

OpenAI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

32. Matthias Minderer

Research Scientist

Google Brain

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

33. Li Shen

Staff Researcher

Alibaba Damo Academy

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

34. Gang Sun

Co-Founder

Momenta

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

35. Jie Hu

Learned scholar

Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

36. Dirk Weissenborn

Technical Staff

Inceptive

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning


37. Samuli Laine

Distinguished Research Scientist

NVIDIA

 

38. Jure Leskovec

Professor

Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Data Mining

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in IR and Recommendation

 

39. Luke Zettlemoyer

Professor

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington;Facebook AI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Natural Language Processing

 

40. Yi Yang

Professor

College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Multimedia

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

41. Omer Levy

Research Lead

Character.AI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Natural Language Processing

 

42. Jan Kautz

Vice President

NVIDIA;University College London

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

43. Barret Zoph

Head of Post-Training

OpenAI;Barret Zoph

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

44. Mark Chen

Head of Frontiers Research

OpenAI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

45. Jeff Wu

Member of Technical Staff

OpenAI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

46. Luc Van Gool

Professor

Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

47. Han Hu

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research Asia

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

48. Trevor Darrell

Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Multimedia

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Robotics

 

49. Aditya Ramesh

Member of Technical Staff

OpenAI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning

 

50. Qi Tian

Professor

Huawei

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Multimedia

 

51. Chunhua Shen

University Chair Professor

Zhejiang University

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

 

52. Menglong Zhu

Director of Machine Learning

DJI

2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision

2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision