AI ResearchersCommunity RankingsDownload as imageShare on XThe AI researchers who made a big impact in 2026, as nominated by their peersAdd a personDario Amodei1CosignDiogo Almeida2CosignDemis Hassabis3CosignWill DePue4CosignAlec Radford5CosignAndrej Karpathy6CosignSholto Douglas7CosignIlya Sutskever8CosignPercy Liang9CosignNoam Brown10CosignNoam Shazeer11CosignJohn Schulman12CosignChris Olah13CosignDevvrit Khatri14CosignJakub Pachocki15CosignLucas Beyer16CosignChelsea Finn17CosignHarsh Mehta18CosignSergey Levine19CosignYejin Choi20CosignDmitry Lyalin21CosignDan Hendrycks22CosignGabriele Corso23CosignDaphne Koller24CosignSamip25CosignDibya Bhattacharjee26CosignVarun Gangal27CosignTanmay Sah, PhD28CosignTri Dao29CosignFergal Reid30CosignTheo Browne31CosignSimran Kaur32CosignMichal Valko33CosignYohei Nakajima34CosignLarisa G.35CosignSergey Edunov36CosignIllia Polosukhin37CosignAlexander Borzunov38CosignMichal Valko 马悯伽39CosignNathan Lambert40CosignJim Fan41CosignSasha Rush42CosignVahab Mirrokni43CosignDanqi Chen44CosignIshan Misra45CosignLeonardo de Moura46CosignClark Barrett47CosignSasha Malysheva48CosignJason Wei49CosignShunyu Yao50CosignMark Chen51CosignYi Tay52CosignSimon Mo53CosignJustin Johnson54CosignThang Luong55CosignRyan Greenblatt56CosignRayan Krishnan57CosignAlbert Gu58Cosign