Co-founder of Cohere, an enterprise-focused generative artificial intelligence startup, that recently secured $270 million in a Series C round of venture capital

Ivan came to computers in high school, when a friend pushed him into taking a computer science class

The first program he ever wrote was a chess AI—even though he didn’t actually know how to play chess

Co-Founder & CTO at Sanctuary AI

Before Sanctuary, Suzanne founded Kindred, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment

The acquisition of Kindred by Ocado in November 2020 was the third-largest exit for a robotics company in Canadian history

Manager in the Energy & Materials division at Toyota Research Institute

Integrates machine learning and data science methods with experiment and simulation to accelerate the development of new, sustainable materials

Majored in applied math and chemistry: math because theorems can be proved just once (and the proof will continue to hold throughout time), and chemistry because theory connects to the real world

Director of Argonne’s Data Science and Learning Division

Co-founder of the popular and long-lived data-sharing tool Globus

Widely considered the father of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing