| person_id,name,accounts,associated_model_ids,analysis_scope,university_ever,institutional_affiliation_ever,institutional_affiliation_basis,UK_schooling,sources,access_date,institutional_route,uk_built_model_ids,uk_from_scratch_model_ids,strict_independent_model_ids,strict_independent,outcome_reasons,unresolved_fields,university_attendance_basis,university_evidence | |
| abdul-wahid-rukua,Abdul Wahid Rukua,"[""AiRukua""]","[""AiRukua/BabyKilat""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,WPH Digital Pte Ltd: AI Researcher (2026-07–present); National Land Agency regional office: Software Engineer (2026-02–2026-04); National Land Agency: Cadastral survey assistant (2018-04–2020-05),unknown,"[""https://id.linkedin.com/in/abdul-wahid-rukua""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""builder location: AiRukua/BabyKilat""]",, | |
| abdullatif-koksal,Abdullatif Köksal,"[""akoksal""]","[""akoksal/LongForm-OPT-125M""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,Google DeepMind: Research Scientist (2025-05–present); Google: Research internship (not reported); Amazon: Research internship (not reported),unknown,"[""https://akoksal.com/"", ""https://uk.linkedin.com/in/abdullatifkoksal"", ""https://tabilab.cmpe.bogazici.edu.tr/arzucan-ozgur/"", ""https://seniorprojects.cmpe.bogazici.edu.tr/semesters/2017-fall/""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]",[],, | |
| ahmad_bader,Ahmad Bader,"[""Ahmadbader17""]","[""Ahmadbader17/tiny-gpt""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,Amazon Ring: Software Development Engineer Intern (Embedded) (July 2026–October 2026); Accenture: Associate Software Developer (15 months; exact dates not established),no,"[""https://github.com/Ahmadbader17/Ahmadbader17/blob/main/README.md"", ""https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmad-bader-8a5381193/"", ""https://cmseducation.org/contact-us/"", ""https://www.linkedin.com/school/citymontessorischool/""]",2026-10-30,yes,"[""Ahmadbader17/tiny-gpt""]","[""Ahmadbader17/tiny-gpt""]",[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation""]",[],, | |
| alex_merwin,Alex Merwin,"[""outpost-bio""]",[],historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,"Outpost Bio: COO and co-founder (Current 2026 team page); Amazon Web Services: Head of Growth, Healthcare and Life Sciences Startups (Historical role; exact dates not established)",unknown,"[""https://careers.outpost.bio/our-people"", ""https://www.healthtech.eu/members/alex-merwin""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established"", ""identified contribution is not an attributable model-building role""]",[],, | |
| aneek-chattopadhyay,Aneek Chattopadhyay,"[""AneekC""]","[""AneekC/quipu-114m"", ""AneekC/quipu-moe-1B-A149M""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,SP Manufacturing Pte Ltd.: AI Engineer (profile describes building production automation agents) (current; exact start date not exposed); Employers not exposed in indexed profile: Several prior roles; titles not exposed (before current Singapore role; exact years unresolved),unknown,"[""https://sg.linkedin.com/in/aneek-chattopadhyay-1a253020a""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]",[],, | |
| anna-korhonen,Anna Korhonen,"[""akoksal""]","[""akoksal/LongForm-OPT-125M""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,University of Cambridge: Professor of Natural Language Processing; co-director Language Technology Laboratory; CHIA and ITH co-founder/director (current; start years not established); University of Cambridge: Royal Society University Research Fellow (prior; exact years not established); National Institute of Informatics: JSPS postdoctoral fellow (prior; exact years not established); University of Pennsylvania: Researcher (prior; exact years not established),unknown,"[""https://sites.google.com/site/annakorhonen/"", ""https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/lists/phd/supervisor.html""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established"", ""identified contribution is not an attributable model-building role""]",[],, | |
| augusto-b-correa,Augusto B. Corrêa,"[""abcorrea""]","[""abcorrea/smolLM-135M-wiki-ft""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,"Christ Church, University of Oxford: Junior Research Fellow (2024-11–present); University of Basel: Researcher (2020–2024-10); University of Basel: Research assistant (2018–2019); Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul: Research assistant (2013–2018)",no,"[""https://abcorrea.github.io/assets/pdf/cv-academic.pdf""]",2026-10-30,yes,"[""abcorrea/smolLM-135M-wiki-ft""]",[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]",[],, | |
| christopher-subia-waud,Christopher Subia-Waud,"[""rayonlabs""]","[""rayonlabs/bloomz-560m-databricks-dolly-15k-curated-en-622484de-f726-4a35-9a9c-a580e804a968""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,Rayon Labs / Gradients.io: Platform researcher; Gradients cofounder (Affiliation documented 9 June 2025; biography says Gradients exit in 2026; employment start/end dates unknown),unknown,"[""https://arxiv.org/html/2506.07940v1"", ""https://sg.linkedin.com/in/chris-subia-waud"", ""https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/501903/1/pda_version_Thesis_Final-1.pdf""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established"", ""identified contribution is not an attributable model-building role""]",[],, | |
| connor-leahy,Connor Leahy,"[""EleutherAI""]","[""EleutherAI/gpt-neo-125m""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,ControlAI: US work / leadership; exact current title not established (current after Conjecture); Conjecture: Co-founder / CEO (from 2022; left before current retrospective); EleutherAI: Co-founder (2020–2022 leadership period),unknown,"[""https://www.ettf.land/p/conjecture-a-retrospective"", ""https://blog.eleuther.ai/year-two-preface/"", ""https://www.azleg.gov/press/house/57LEG/1R/251107KOLODINHEARING.pdf""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""builder location: EleutherAI/gpt-neo-125m""]",, | |
| daniel-van-strien,Daniel van Strien,"[""bigscience""]","[""bigscience/bloom-560m-intermediate""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,Hugging Face: Machine Learning Librarian (current; start not established); British Library: Machine-learning/library project work; exact role not retrieved (prior; dates not established),unknown,"[""https://github.com/davanstrien"", ""https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cilip.org.uk/resource/resmgr/cilip_events/cilipirelai24/cilip_ireland_lai_2024_ebroc.pdf"", ""https://uk.linkedin.com/in/danielvanstrien""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established"", ""identified contribution is not an attributable model-building role""]",[],, | |
| shwars:dmitri-soshnikov,Dmitri Soshnikov,"[""shwars""]","[""shwars/fido-rugpt3-small""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,Microsoft: Academic Developer Evangelist; Senior Software Engineer; Cloud Developer Advocate (Joined2006; biography reports16 years); Moscow Aviation Institute; HSE; MIREA: Associate professor / course teaching (roles vary by institution) (Current public homepage; exact dates unstated),unknown,"[""https://soshnikov.com/personal/about"", ""http://soshnikov.com""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""builder location: shwars/fido-rugpt3-small""]",, | |
| herbie-bradley,Herbie Bradley,"[""EleutherAI""]","[""EleutherAI/pythia-410m-v0"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-70m-deduped-v0"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-410m-deduped-v0"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-deduped-v0"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-70m-deduped"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-410m-deduped"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-deduped"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-v0"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-410m"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-160m"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-70m-v0""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,UK AI Safety Institute / Frontier AI Taskforce: Research work (2023 summer–2024-10); EleutherAI / CarperAI: Research (2022–2023),unknown,"[""https://herbiebradley.com"", ""https://www.linkedin.com/in/herbiebradley""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established"", ""identified contribution is not an attributable model-building role""]",[],, | |
| ikechukwu_henry_uwakwe,Ikechukwu Henry Uwakwe,"[""HenrySentinel""]","[""HenrySentinel/tinyMind""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,Dareyy.io / Darey.io: Machine Learning Engineer (Undated current speaker biography); Utiva and Keystone Bank: Consultant; data-science teaching at Utiva (Undated biography); Mentorz: Former product contributor / machine-learning role (Before current role; dates not specified),unknown,"[""https://sessionize.com/ikechukwu-henry-uwakwe/"", ""https://ng.linkedin.com/in/ikechukwu-henry-uwakwe-6916a5b6""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""builder location: HenrySentinel/tinyMind""]",Own LinkedIn Education section lists University of Nigeria attendance2013–2017; qualification title is not exposed in the indexed source.,"[{""institution"": ""University of Nigeria"", ""qualification"": ""University attendance; qualification title not exposed"", ""start"": ""2013"", ""end"": ""2017"", ""country"": ""Nigeria"", ""source_url"": ""https://ng.linkedin.com/in/ikechukwu-henry-uwakwe-6916a5b6"", ""access_date"": ""2026-11-01"", ""evidence_type"": ""primary_creator_education_section""}]" | |
| jfrick:jakob-frick,Jakob Frick,"[""jfrick""]","[""jfrick/shakespeare-vanilla-gpt-10m"", ""jfrick/fineweb-edu-scholarly-gpt-10m""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,Arda Industries: Co-founder and advisor (Current as of 2026-10-30; start date unknown); Radiant AI: Founder/co-founder and CTO (Documented in 2024; described as former by 2026-10-30; precise start/end unknown); Palantir: Led projects including language-model integration and COVID response; exact role titles unavailable in primary biography (Six-year tenure; exact start/end unknown. Patent filing 2019-05-20 and grant 2021-08-31 separately dated.),unknown,"[""https://arda.ai/"", ""https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakobfrick"", ""https://airbyte.com/blog-authors/jakob-frick"", ""https://de.linkedin.com/posts/wittfra_artificialintelligence-ai-activity-7229354975477268480-G8JN"", ""https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/0c/da/8b/b0c685ccdc8817/US11106331.pdf""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]",[],, | |
| jenny_yang,Jenny Yang,"[""outpost-bio""]","[""outpost-bio/Waypoint-6m"", ""outpost-bio/Waypoint-45m"", ""outpost-bio/Waypoint-170m""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,Outpost Bio: CEO and co-founder (Current 2026 team page); Marie Curie fellowship: Research fellow (Before Outpost; exact dates not established),unknown,"[""https://careers.outpost.bio/profile/70033?theme_id=15488"", ""https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jennyyang259""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established"", ""identified contribution is not an attributable model-building role""]",[],, | |
| joao-gante,João Gante,"[""model-attribution-challenge""]","[""model-attribution-challenge/gpt2"", ""model-attribution-challenge/bloom-560m""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,"nPlan: ML engineer and team lead (Joined during the 2015–2020 doctorate; exact start/end years unknown); Hugging Face: Transformers team; led text generation (Joined 2022; still affiliated on 3 November 2025; exact departure date unknown); Google DeepMind: Senior Research Engineer, Gemini Diffusion (Current on 30 October 2026; November 2025 institutional biography anticipated joining in 2026; exact start date unknown)",unknown,"[""https://deec.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/news/community/alumni-session-joao-gante-partilha-a-sua-jornada-enquanto-estudante-do-doutoramento-em-engenharia-eletrotecnica-e-de-computadores"", ""https://github.com/gante"", ""https://mlmac.io/mlmac_satml.pdf""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established"", ""identified contribution is not an attributable model-building role""]",[],, | |
| leon_derczynski,Leon Derczynski,"[""leondz""]","[""leondz/artgpt2tox""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,"University of Sheffield: Research Fellow, Computer Science (2016–February 2, 2018); IT University of Copenhagen: Assistant Professor, Computer Science (March 1, 2018–August 30, 2020); IT University of Copenhagen: Associate Professor, Computer Science (September 1, 2020–present in self-asserted ORCID); NVIDIA: Principal Research Scientist / LLMSEC (Current biography; start not established)",unknown,"[""https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8656-3431"", ""https://www.derczynski.com/itu/"", ""https://www.derczynski.com/sheffield/papers/report.pdf"", ""https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/4068/""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""initialisation: leondz/artgpt2tox""]",, | |
| maxime_labonne,Maxime Labonne,"[""mlabonne""]","[""mlabonne/dummy-llama-2"", ""mlabonne/dummy-CodeLlama-7b-hf""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,"Liquid AI: Head of Post-Training (Current biography; indexed history includes London role, exact dates not exposed); JPMorgan Chase: Research scientist affiliation; exact title/year range not established from opened primary paper (Affiliated on May 2023 paper)",unknown,"[""https://mlabonne.github.io/blog/about.html"", ""https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01238"", ""https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxime-labonne?skipRedirect=true"", ""https://mlabonne.github.io/blog/publications.html""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]",[],, | |
| vilm:minh-dung-dao,Minh-Dung Dao,"[""vilm""]","[""vilm/Quyen-SE-v0.1""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,FPT Software AI Center: AI Resident (2021–2023); Vingroup Big Data Institute: AI engineer intern (2021),unknown,"[""https://dungminhdao.github.io""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""builder location: vilm/Quyen-SE-v0.1""]",, | |
| neythen_treloar,Neythen J. Treloar,"[""outpost-bio""]","[""outpost-bio/Waypoint-6m"", ""outpost-bio/Waypoint-45m"", ""outpost-bio/Waypoint-170m""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,Outpost Bio: Principal Machine Learning Research Engineer (Current 2026 team page; start not fully established),unknown,"[""https://careers.outpost.bio/our-people"", ""https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142965/7/NT_thesis_final.pdf""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""builder location: outpost-bio/Waypoint-170m"", ""builder location: outpost-bio/Waypoint-45m"", ""builder location: outpost-bio/Waypoint-6m""]",, | |
| eden-eldith,Phillip C. O'Brien (Eden Eldith),"[""edeneldith""]","[""edeneldith/WiggleGPT""]",primary_uk_connection,no,no,Independent research practice; no university or employer/institutional affiliation; affirmative self-funded project statement.,yes,"[""https://garden-backend-three.vercel.app/finalized-work/eden-s-autobiography-3/"", ""https://garden-backend-three.vercel.app/vault/sanctuary-for-all-things-atlas/nodes/eden/"", ""https://huggingface.co/edeneldith/WiggleGPT/raw/1ba13498a367e214496b72f202745c1846adda89/README.md""]",2026-10-30,no,"[""edeneldith/WiggleGPT""]","[""edeneldith/WiggleGPT""]","[""edeneldith/WiggleGPT""]",True,[],[],, | |
| pietro-lesci,Pietro Lesci,"[""EleutherAI""]","[""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-seed3"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-seed2"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-seed1""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,Engineers Gate: Role not retrieved (current per supervisor alumni list; start not reported); Amazon Web Services: Research intern (2022-09 announcement; duration not established),unknown,"[""https://andreasvlachos.github.io/_pages/0_collabs/"", ""https://pietrolesci.com/"", ""https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/seminars/list/225856""]",2026-10-30,yes,"[""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-seed1"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-seed2"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-seed3""]","[""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-seed1"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-seed2"", ""EleutherAI/pythia-160m-seed3""]",[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation""]",[],, | |
| rajesh_kanna_v,Rajesh Kanna V.,"[""XBOT-RK""]","[""XBOT-RK/distilgpt2-wiki-qa""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,Altimetrik: Senior Data Scientist (February 2025–present); Amazon: Data Analyst / Assistant Team Lead (October 2023–January 2025); Tata Consultancy Services: Full-Stack Data Scientist (June 2017–October 2021),unknown,"[""https://vrajeshtrichy.github.io/website/experience/"", ""https://vrajeshtrichy.github.io/website/education/""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""builder location: XBOT-RK/distilgpt2-wiki-qa""]",, | |
| saif_ur_rehman_outpost,Saif Ur-Rehman,"[""outpost-bio""]","[""outpost-bio/Waypoint-6m"", ""outpost-bio/Waypoint-45m"", ""outpost-bio/Waypoint-170m""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,Outpost Bio: VP Engineering (Current 2026 team page); Basecamp Research: First engineering hire (Before Outpost; exact dates not established),unknown,"[""https://careers.outpost.bio/our-people""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established"", ""identified contribution is not an attributable model-building role""]",[],, | |
| sally-sonia-simmons,Sally Sonia Simmons,"[""SallySims""]","[""SallySims/equibert-generator""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,"Institute of Demography, Higher School of Economics: Research assistant (before LSE; exact years not reported); The Inclusion Initiative: Public profile affiliation; exact role not retrieved (current page; start/end not reported)",unknown,"[""https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/people/research-students/sally-sonia-simmons"", ""https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sally-sonia-simmons-ba53a5123""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""builder location: SallySims/equibert-generator""]",, | |
| sam-dobson,Sam Dobson,"[""sdobson""]","[""sdobson/tinystories-llama-15m""]",primary_uk_connection,unknown,yes,"Big 4 firm (not named): Management consultant, Financial Services (current on 2019-11-03)",unknown,"[""https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21437071"", ""https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574720"", ""https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575361""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""university_ever"", ""builder location: sdobson/tinystories-llama-15m""]",, | |
| sam_schorb,Sam Schorb,"[""iimaginary""]","[""iimaginary/schorbGPT-medium""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,iimaginary: Founder and developer (2018–present); Porter Croft Primary: Teacher (September 2017–September 2018); Greystones Primary: Teacher / teaching assistant (September 2014–September 2016); Various schools: Teaching and classroom support (2013–2018); Fulcrum Records: Creative director / producer (November 2011–September 2018),unknown,"[""https://www.sschorb.com/"", ""https://www.sschorb.com/CV-Sam-Schorb.pdf""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""builder location: iimaginary/schorbGPT-medium""]",, | |
| samuel-albanie,Samuel Albanie,"[""bigscience""]","[""bigscience/bloomz-560m""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,"Google DeepMind: Research scientist; leads Gemini frontier evaluations (current; start date not established); University of Cambridge: Assistant Professor (prior; exact years not established); University of Oxford, Visual Geometry Group: Postdoctoral researcher (prior; exact years not established); Balliol College, Oxford: Fellow (prior; exact years not established)",unknown,"[""https://samuelalbanie.com/"", ""https://aims.robots.ox.ac.uk/alumni"", ""https://eng.ox.ac.uk/media/ueubfhrq/aims-ar-2018-compressed.pdf""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established"", ""identified contribution is not an attributable model-building role""]",[],, | |
| sid-black,Sid Black,"[""EleutherAI""]","[""EleutherAI/gpt-neo-125m""]",primary_uk_connection,unknown,yes,Aleph Alpha: MAGMA coauthor affiliation (December2021 preprint / EMNLP2022 paper); Conjecture: cofounder (8April2022 announcement); UK AI Security Institute: Research Engineer (current public profile observed2026-10-30); AI Security Institute: Researcher Autonomous Systems (2024); Eleuther: Researcher (department n/a) (2021),unknown,"[""https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.179/"", ""https://github.com/Aleph-Alpha-Research/magma"", ""https://www.conjecture.dev/research/we-are-conjecture-a-new-alignment-research-startup"", ""https://www.aisi.gov.uk/people/sid-black"", ""https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ckPrWskAAAAJ&hl=en"", ""https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Sidney_Black1""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""university_ever"", ""builder location: EleutherAI/gpt-neo-125m""]",, | |
| sripaad_srinivasan,Sripaad Srinivasan,"[""Isotonic""]","[""Isotonic/bullet-points-generator""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,Saturn Fintech: AI Engineer (Current README; start not stated); AI4Privacy: Open Source Researcher (September 2023–present as of July 2024 CV); Zoho Corporation: Deep Learning Engineer (NLP) (March 2021–September 2023); Qube Cinema Pvt Ltd: Product Engineering Intern (June–September 2019); Circular Edge Solution Pvt Ltd: Developer Intern (December 2018–March 2019),unknown,"[""https://github.com/Sripaad/Sripaad/blob/main/README.md"", ""https://sripaad.github.io/src/sripaad_resume_0724.pdf""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]",[],, | |
| syed_sarim_ahsan,Syed Sarim Ahsan,"[""sarimahsan101""]","[""sarimahsan101/nova-141m-tinystories""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,Global Integration System (GIS): Software Engineer (January 2025–present); TallyMarks Consulting: AI Engineer Intern (September–October 2026); Evello Pathways: Machine Learning Engineer Intern (May–June 2026); IFFCO Pakistan (as named in CV): IT Intern (September 2025–October 2026 as displayed),unknown,"[""https://syedsarimahsan.netlify.app/Syed_Sarim_Ahsan.pdf"", ""https://syedsarimahsan.netlify.app/about""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]",[],, | |
| tim_salimans,Tim Salimans,"[""openai-community""]","[""openai-community/openai-gpt""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,Anthropic: Member of Technical Staff (2026-04 to present); Google DeepMind: Research Director (2018-07 to 2026-03); OpenAI: Research Scientist and Team Lead (2016-05 to 2018-07); Aidence: Scientific Advisor (2016-05 to 2018-07); Aidence: Founder and Chief Scientist (2015-09 to 2016-05); Algoritmica: Founder and Data Science Consultant (2012-07 to 2015-12); Erasmus University Rotterdam: PhD candidate Econometrics (2009-11 to 2013-05); Microsoft Research: Machine Learning Research Intern (2011-09 to 2011-12); Independent trader: Quantitative trader and market maker (2006-06 to 2008-06),unknown,"[""https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsalimans/details/experience/"", ""https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsalimans/details/education/""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]",[],, | |
| xinyu_bai_bxymartin,Xinyu (Martin) Bai,"[""BXYMartin""]","[""BXYMartin/long-t5-tglobal-base-openhearthstone-v0.1""]",primary_uk_connection,yes,yes,Wayve: Machine Learning Performance Engineer (2026-08 to present); Fusionride: Senior Machine Learning Engineer (2022-10 to 2026-05); SilverTide Financial: Quantitative Analytics & Software Engineer intern (2022-05 to 2022-07); Beihang UAS: Senior Software Engineer (2020-09 to 2021-07); SenseTime: Research Assistant intern (2018-09 to 2019-06),unknown,"[""https://www.linkedin.com/in/xinyu-bai-a42514173/"", ""https://www.linkedin.com/in/xinyu-bai-a42514173/details/education/""]",2026-10-30,yes,"[""BXYMartin/long-t5-tglobal-base-openhearthstone-v0.1""]",[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]",[],, | |
| ml-resources:yanbei-chen,Yanbei Chen,"[""ml-resources""]","[""ml-resources/MobileMoE-S-QAT""]",historical_or_collaboration_context,yes,yes,Meta: Staff Research Scientist; foundation models (Current biography as accessed2026-10-30); Amazon AGI / AWS AI Lab: Senior scientist / scientist (Prior roles; dates unstated); University of Tübingen: Postdoctoral researcher (Before industry; dates unstated),unknown,"[""https://yanbeic.github.io/""]",2026-10-30,yes,[],[],[],False,"[""university attendance"", ""institutional or industry affiliation"", ""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established"", ""identified contribution is not an attributable model-building role""]",[],, | |
| fahim-mirza,Fahim Mirza,"[""younsmirzai""]","[""younsmirzai/stackadvisor-extractor""]",primary_uk_connection,unknown,unknown,University and institutional route not investigated further: frozen release is derived.,unknown,"[""https://huggingface.co/younsmirzai"", ""https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stackadvisor.app""]",2026-11-01,unknown,[],[],[],False,"[""UK natural-language model building not established"", ""UK from-scratch natural-language model building not established""]","[""university_ever"", ""institutional_affiliation_ever"", ""builder location: younsmirzai/stackadvisor-extractor""]",, | |