University of Alberta

Eric P. Xing is president of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department, Language Technologies Institute, and Computer Science Department. His public homepage and biography say his work spans machine learning, statistical methodology, large-scale computational systems, large language models, world and agent models, and biology foundation models; he earned a bachelor's degree from Peking University and PhDs from Rutgers University and the University of Alberta.

Yufeng Yuan is listed on OpenReview as staff at ByteDance Seed, previously at Tencent AI Lab, with an MS in Computing Science from the University of Alberta.

Finbarr Timbers is an AI researcher and investor. His homepage says he works at Ai2 on RL for LLMs and previously worked at Midjourney and DeepMind.