Jeff Dean is head of AI at Google. He's one of the most prolific computer scientists there, and has worked on many big projects such as MapReduce, BigTable, Spa

Jeff Dean is head of AI at Google. He's one of the most prolific computer scientists there, and has worked on many big projects such as MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, GoogleBrain and TensorFlow. Yann LeCun is head of AI at Facebook and kinda knows as the father of convolutional networks. There's a bunch of other ones from other big companies or big ivy league universities.