University of Waterloo

Computer scientist, UC Berkeley professor, and Databricks co-founder and CTO. He created Apache Spark and works on systems for large-scale data, machine learning, and compound AI applications.

NVIDIA's research page describes Jan Kautz as vice president of Learning and Perception Research, working across computer vision, machine learning, computational photography, and geometric vision.

Ge Zhang is a ByteDance large model researcher. ByteDance Seed identifies him as a co-founder of M-A-P and a core contributor to MAP-Neo, OpenCoder, and Yi.

Michael Noukhovitch is a PhD candidate in artificial intelligence at Mila associated with Universite de Montreal. His public homepage lists interests including reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, and agents with web and computer use.

Bashir Sadjad's public site says he is a software engineer at Google focused on healthcare data infrastructure; his public resume also lists long-running Google work including Cloud Healthcare efforts.

Dongfu Jiang is a Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo affiliated with the Vector Institute and TIGER Lab. His homepage lists research interests in LLM and VLM post-training, multimodal evaluation, and agentic tool-use systems.

Matei Zaharia

Kautz, Jan

Ge Zhang

Noukhovitch, Michael

Sadjad, Bashir

Jiang, Dongfu