I guess you can count Yann LeCun, Leon Bottou and Richard Sutton among those. And those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Regarding the first

I guess you can count Yann LeCun, Leon Bottou and Richard Sutton among those. And those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Regarding the first two, see also my comment about Lush in this thread.