AI Utah lists the top 100 people leading artificial intelligence ecosystem in the state
AI Utah, in collaboration with partners, has announced a list of the 100 individuals leading the field of artificial intelligence in Utah.
To recognize their role in building Utah’s AI ecosystem, honorees were place in one of three categories: futurist, builder and integrator. Details about the honorees are at https://www.aiutah.org/ai-utah-100/.
AI Utah is a collective of professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts who are passionate about the field of artificial intelligence. With Utah’s growing reputation as a hub for technology and innovation, the group seeks to explore, illuminate and nurture the vast potential of AI within the state.
The AI Utah honorees are:
Aaron Davis, AI lead, Google Cloud; Adam Sidwell, CEO, Future House Studios; Alan Whitaker, head of AI, BambooHR; Allan Carroll, co-founder/CTO, Loansnap; Amrali Abdullah, principal AI scientist, Cynch AI; Andrew Blevins, CTO, Leash Biosciences; Andrew Carr, co-founder and chief scientist, Cartwheel; Aparna C. Sankarankutty, machine learning engineer, Allurion Technologies; Barclay Lincoln Burns, Utah Innovation Fund and Generativeimpact.AI; Bassam T. Salem, general manager and team coach, AtlasRTX; Ben Ainscough, senior director of data science; Ben Diltz, co-founder and CTO, Lucid; Berton Earnshaw, AI fellow at Recursion, scientific director at Valance Labs, and adjunct professor at the University of Utah;
Blake Rouse, CEO, Buster; Brad Ferguson, data science and analytics leader, BENlabs; Cahlan Sharp, CTO, SchoolAI; Cain Elliott, head legal futurist, Filevine; Cameron Bell, co-founder and CEO, Bunked; Carlos Kemeny, CEO, DrumData.AI; Carter Rees, head of machine learning, Entrata; Catherine Wong, CPO and CPO, Entrata; Chet D. Linton, CEO, Aegix; Chris Brousseau, vice president/staff machine learning engineer, J.P. MorganChase; Chris Knoch, product lead, Amazon Web Services; Chris Sypherd, machine learning engineer, Qualiti; Cody Maughan, co-founder and CTO, Bunked; Cydni Tetro, founder, Women Tech Council; Dallin Bentley, CTO, Buster;
Dan Caffee, founder and CEO, Voze; Dan Lambert, CEO, PathologyWatch; Daren Thayne, CTO and executive vice president of product, Domo; David Hedengren, partner of metrics and applied research in the core search and AI unit, Microsoft; David Gonzo Gonzalex, CEO, Energy.Work; David Healey, vice president of data science, Enveda Biosciences; David Wright, co-founder and CEO, Pattern; David Wingate, associate professor of computer science, Brigham Young University; Dusty Chadwick, vice president of engineering, Voze; Dennis Wilkins, engineering manager, AirBNB;
Eddy Ekstrom, vice president of data, Limble CMMS; Earl J. Cahill, senior architect and AI team lead, Whistic; Gaurav Patl, distributed training platform architect/ML infraops engineer, Adobe (Firefly); Eric Riddoch, ML platform technical lead, BENlabs; Ilya B. Reznik, CEO, Jaunt; Gregory Larson, tech leader, investor and advisor and executive vice president of engineering, Jasper; Ivan Hladush, software engineer, Snap Inc.; Imran S. Haque, senior vice president of AI and digital sciences, Recursion; James Jensen, staff data scientist, Recursion; Jacob Miller, vice president of data science, Pattern; Jared Moore, director of engineering, AI data and infrastructure, Weave;
Jamie Morningstar, director of software engineering, Qualtrics; Jeff Lewis, chief technology officer, property estimating solutions, Verisk; Jason Thelin, founder, Kahoa.ai; Jeffrey Humphreys, chief data scientist, Harbor Health, and professor, University of Utah School of Medicine; Jefferson Moss, associate commission of innovation, Utah System of Higher Education, and managing director, Utah Innovation Fund; Joseph Davison, founder, Neural Assembly; Japson Taylor, AI entrepreneur; Joon Beh, CEO, Hallo; Joe Reis, author and global data leader; Jorge (Coco) Zuloaga, CTO, Tuva Health; Jordan Morrow, owner and founder, Bodhi Data;
Justin Lindsey, senior director, AI labs, Domo Inc.; Julia Silge, software engineer, Posit PBC; Kirk Ouimet, co-founder and CEO, Phi; Kevin Moon, associate professor, Utah State University; Levi Thatcher, senior director of data science, Pluralsight; Kristie J. Rowley, senior director, AI labs, Domo Inc.; Lina Nilsson, vice president of product, Recursion; Linda Klug, founder and CEO, Airin Inc.; Lindsey Zuloaga, chief data scientist, HireVue; Loren Larsen, CEO and co-founder, Videra Health; Manu Sood, senior vice president, technology, platform delivery and operations, AvidXchange; Marissa Saunders, senior director of data science, Recusion;
Mason Victors, CEO, Idealist Warrior Labs; Matt Harrison, founder, Metasnake; Matt Housley, CTO, Ternary Data; Matthew Prince, CEO, Cloudflare; Matthew Sharp, MLops engineer, LTK; Meg DeWolf, principal product manager, Pattern; Melissa Loble, chief academic officer, Instructure; Miriah Peterson, owner, SoyPete Tech; Murium Iqbal, staff applied scientist, Etsy; Nancy Fulda, assistant professor, Brigham Young University; Nathaniel Neubert, machine learning engineer, Deep Health; Nata Sanders, CEO, Artifact; Newell Cobb, vice president of AI transformation, Pattern; Nelson Griffiths, health of engineering and ML, Double River Investments; Nick Walton, CEO, Latitude; Nick Baguley, global vice president of data strategy and data science products, MasterCard;
Parker Holzer, data scientist, Spiff; Niel Nickolaisen, information security officer, Utah State University; Peter McLean, director of data science and applied ML, Recursion; Paul B. Allen, CEO, Soar; Philip Huebner, natural language processing engineer, Pattern; Peter West, CEO and founder, Qualiti; Rose Lightheart, machine learning scientist II, Enveda Biosciences; Robert Thomas Pottorff, senior deep learning research scientist, Nvidia; Saul Leal, CEO, OneMeta; Ryan Johnson, CTO, Grain; Sean C. Warnick, professor in the Brigham Young University Department of Computer Science and founder of the Information and Decision Algorithms Laboratories;
Sean Kirkby, vice president of CXone generative AI R&D, Nice Ltd.; Spencer Paterson, co-founder and CTO, Halda; Shane Swenson, CTO, Techcyte; Tim J. Kapp, founder, Cinco.AI; Sunny Washington, co-founder, Seer; Tyler Folkman, CTO and CAIO, BENlabs; Tori Hooper, project coordinator, Utah System of Higher Education; Zachary Holmquist, co-founder, Seer; Tyler J. Jarvis, director of applied and computational mathematics, Brigham Young University.