Andrej Karpathy (AI Research / Autonomous Vehicles) at Tesla / OpenAI — San Francisco, United States

Andrej Karpathy co-founded OpenAI and later joined Tesla as Director of AI and Autopilot Vision, building the world's most advanced real-world autonomous driving dataset from Tesla's fleet of millions of vehicles. He returned to OpenAI briefly and then launched Eureka Labs, an AI education startup, alongside his popular YouTube channel teaching deep learning to millions of viewers. One of the most respected AI researchers and educators in the world.