Time to Trust
Pradeep Das
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Previously at Amazon Music, Oracle, and Viiv Labs; co-founder & CTO of Adya (acquired by Qualys). Passionate about designing and building large-scale ML systems with a focus on NLP/LLMs. Enjoys reading, hiking, cooking, & doing nothing.
Akrura Gordillo
Staff Software Engineer
Previously at Riva Health, Viiv Labs, Solvvy, and Polycom. Over 20 years of software engineering experience. Most recently, led threat modeling and cybersecurity analysis of medical device to prepare for FDA approval.
University of California, Berkeley
Leif Hancox-Li, Ph. D.
Senior Applied Scientist
Previously at CapitalOne, evaluating LLMs for company-wide use. Working in the field of responsible AI since 2019, including building explainability solutions, establishing responsible AI processes, and publishing interdisciplinary research at venues like FAccT. Tries to spend at least one week a year walking in the mountains.
Giuliana Gesto
Frontend Developer
UX/UI design and front-end developer, previously at bitlogic.io. Based in Cordoba, Argentina. Instituto Superior Politécnico de Córdoba.
Subaru Ueno
Appsec Engineer
Previously at Amazon, Oracle, and Accenture. Working on AI/ML security engineering since 2019. Most recently, led red-teaming for Amazon AI models. Indiana University
Varun Cherukuri
Software Development Engineer
Cloud infrastructure engineer. Most recently at MIST (acquired by Juniper), built the conversational interface to Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, designed to diagnose and resolve networking issues. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anuj Tambwekar
Machine Learning Engineer
Previously at Microsoft. Research interest in trustworthy AI, ML for human safety, and autonomous vehicles.
University of Michigan
Vele Tosevski
Senior Applied Scientist
Senior Applied Scientist. Previously at Lorica Cybersecurity, designed and deployed privacy-preserving machine learning products; expertise in the use of fully-homomorphic encryption and trusted execution environment for LLMs. University of Toronto
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Applied Scientist or Software Developer
Leon Derczynski
LLM Security pioneer
Professor, ITU Copenhagen
Principal Scientist, Nvidia
Founder - Garak & Nemo Guardrails
Lead - OWASP LLM Top 10
Ruslan Salakhtudinov
Deep Learning pioneer
UPMC Professor of CS at CMU
Senior Fellow of CIFAR, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow,
Google Faculty Award, Nvidia Pioneers of AI award
Bratin Saha
Chief Product and Technical Officer, Digital Ocean
Former VP and GM, AWS AI
Joe Spisak
Product Director & Head of Generative AI Open Source, Meta
Previously Google, Amazon