Academics & professors
The largest community in the directory, by far. University faculty whose papers the labs cite in keynotes years later. Melanie Mitchell at Santa Fe on what models actually understand, Mark Riedl at Georgia Tech on AI storytelling and safety, Christopher Manning at Stanford on the NLP stack that became the LLM stack, Hal Daumé III at Maryland on fairness in ML. The frontier labs publish faster; this neighborhood remembers longer.