Phillip Isola

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BIO

Associate Professor in EECS at MIT, trying to understand intelligence.

#161inTech

@phillip_isola

@phillipi

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Informing

Informing30.7%

Teaching30.3%

Announcing10.7%

Hopeful10.2%

Supportive6.9%

Humorous6.8%

Provocative2.6%

Other1.9%

Topics

Synthetic Data

Synthetic Data22%

LLM Prompting19%

Multimodal Representations16.9%

Platonic Representation Hypothesis14.7%

Neural Thickets12.5%

Quasimetric Learning7.1%

Computer Vision Textbook5.9%

Other1.9%

Top followers

#1

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

#6

Ian Goodfellow

@goodfellow_ian

Co-founder of stealth startup. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org Founding chairman of @pubhealthaction

#13

Chelsea Finn

@chelseabfinn

Asst Prof of CS & EE @Stanford Co-founder of Physical Intelligence @physical_int PhD from @Berkeley_EECS, EECS BS from @MIT

#14

Kyunghyun Cho

@kchonyc

a mediocre combination of a mediocre professor at @nyuniversity and a mediocre CEO at @OrtetAI

#18

hardmaru

@hardmaru

Co-Founder and CEO @SakanaAILabs 🎏

#22

Pieter Abbeel

@pabbeel

Berkeley & Amazon

#27

Percy Liang

@percyliang

professor of computer science @Stanford @stanfordnlp, co-founder of @togethercompute, http://marin.community, @simile_ai, pianist

#30

Sam Bowman

@sleepinyourhat

AI alignment + LLMs at Anthropic. On leave from NYU. Views not employers'. No relation to @s8mb. Into @givingwhatwecan.

#31

Zachary Lipton

@zacharylipton

Professor: CMU/@acmi_lab, Cofounder: @AbridgeHQ, Creator: @d2l_ai & http://approximatelycorrect.com, Relapsing 🎷

#38

John Schulman

@johnschulman2

@thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music

#39

Jacob Andreas

@jacobandreas

Teaching computers to read. Assoc. prof @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL / @NLP_MIT (he/him). http://lingo.csail.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/jda/www

#48

Durk Kingma

@dpkingma

@AnthropicAI. Prev. @Google Brain/DeepMind, founding team @OpenAI. Computer scientist; inventor of the VAE, Adam optimizer, and other methods. ML PhD.

#52

Tim Rocktäschel

@_rockt

Teaching AI the joy of invention at @Recursive_SI, Professor of AI @AI_UCL, PI @BOLD_Lab_AI, Fellow @ELLISforEurope. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @AIatMeta @CompSciOxford

#57

Soumith Chintala

@soumithchintala

Building new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

#58

Shane Gu

@shaneguML

Sr. Staff RS GenAI @GoogleDeepMind. 🇯🇵-born 🇨🇳🇨🇦. ex: Omni Thinking, Gemini 1.5-3, GPT-4 @OpenAI, GoogBrain Robotics (JP: @shanegJP). Personal opinions.

#61

Thomas G. Dietterich

@tdietterich

University Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), Oregon State Univ.; Former President, AAAI; ArXiv Editor in Chief & Chair CS Section

#70

Nathan Lambert

@natolambert

Open model research, founder, director @trillium_labs. Prev. co-led Olmo at Ai2. Writes @interconnectsai, wrote http://posttrainingbook.com

#76

Dustin Tran

@dustinvtran

@elorianai. ex-google ex-xai

#77

Luke Zettlemoyer

@LukeZettlemoyer

#81

Zico Kolter

@zicokolter

Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at @CarnegieMellon. Board member @OpenAI and @Qualcomm. Chief Scientist @GraySwanAI.

#87

Ben Poole

@poolio

ex-google brain and deepmind. phd in neural nonsense from stanford.

#88

Roger Grosse

@RogerGrosse

#89

Sander Dieleman

@sedielem

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind (WaveNet, Nano Banana, Gemini Omni). I tweet about ML, music, generative models (personal account).

#91

Natasha Jaques

@natashajaques

Assistant Professor leading the Social RL Lab https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/ @uwcse and Staff Research Scientist at @GoogleAI.

#92

Alec Radford

@AlecRad

#95

Yee Whye Teh

@yeewhye

Find me @yeewhye@sigmoid.social Professor at @OxCSML, @oxfordstats and Research Director at @GoogleDeepMind. All opinions are my own.

#96

Mark Chen

@markchen90

Chief Research Officer at @OpenAI. Coach for the USA IOI Team.

#101

Sholto Douglas

@_sholtodouglas

Scaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter

#110

Tri Dao

@tri_dao

Asst. Prof @PrincetonCS, Chief Scientist @togethercompute. Machine learning & systems.

#113

Yisong Yue

@yisongyue

AI Professor @Caltech (@YueLabCaltech)

#116

Aleksander Madry

@aleks_madry

OpenAI and MIT faculty (on leave)

#117

Jonathan Frankle

@jefrankle

Chief AI Scientist @databricks via MosaicML

#118

Diyi Yang

@Diyi_Yang

Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab Part time @humansand LLMs for Humans

#123

Sebastien Bubeck

@SebastienBubeck

I work on AI at OpenAI. Former VP AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.

#125

Jakob Foerster

@j_foerst

Associate Prof in ML @UniofOxford. Something Something Research Scientist @MetaAI. Something @BOLD_LAB_AI. Always #teamhuman. Opinions belong to the world.

#126

Danqi Chen

@danqi_chen

Associate professor @princetonPLI @PrincetonCS Previously: @thinkymachines @facebookai, @stanfordnlp, @Tsinghua_Uni

#135

Eric Wallace

@Eric_Wallace_

research @openai

#136

Thomas Kipf

@tkipf

Research at @GoogleDeepMind. Gemini Omni Team. Priors: GNNs, Structured World Models, Neural Assets, Veo Ingredients/References, Veo Robotics

#142

Jeff Clune

@jeffclune

Co-founder, Recursive. Professor, CS, U. British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. | ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs)

#143

Brandon Amos

@brandondamos

🧙 RL @Reflection_AI past: @MetaAi @GoogleDeepmind @SCSatCMU @Cornell_Tech

#146

Andrew Gordon Wilson

@andrewgwils

Research Lead @perplexity_ai. Professor of machine learning at NYU Courant.

#147

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

@jaschasd

Member of the technical staff @ Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamics.

#154

Luke Metz

@Luke_Metz

Meta Previously: Thinking Machines, OpenAI, Google Brain

#155

Sewon Min

@sewon__min

Assistant professor @Berkeley_EECS @berkeley_ai || Research scientist at @allen_ai || PhD from @uwcse @uwnlp

#166

Saining Xie

@sainingxie

cofounder & chief science officer at @amilabs | faculty @nyu_courant | prev: @googledeepmind @meta (fair) @ucsandiego | ynwa

#167

Catherine Olsson

@catherineols

Hanging out with Claude, improving its behavior, and building tools to support that @AnthropicAI 😁 prev: @open_phil @googlebrain @openai (@microcovid)

#173

Joshua Achiam

@jachiam0

Freedom, flourishing, and abundance. Prev: @openai. Main author of http://spinningup.openai.com

#188

Yuandong Tian

@tydsh

Co-founder of @Recursive_SI. ex-Meta FAIR Director. ex-Google. Reasoning, Optimization and Understanding LLM. Novelist in spare time. PhD in @CMU_Robotics.

#192

Bob McGrew

@bobmcgrewai

Learning new things. Former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, early exec at Palantir, early employee at Paypal.

#193

Denny Zhou

@denny_zhou

@Meta Superintelligence. Prev: Founded & led the Reasoning Team at @Google Brain / Google DeepMind (2021-2026), co-founded COLM