AIwire Launches Annual People to Watch Program
San Diego, CA — June 25, 2025 – AIwire, the leading publication covering scientific and technical AI news, today launched its annual AIwire People to Watch program, following in the footsteps of its sister publications HPCwire and BigDATAwire. This feature highlights key AI community members who are poised to drive the industry forward in the coming year.
The AIwire editorial team searched for AI professionals who are driving the next wave of innovation and bridging academic breakthroughs and real-world deployment through deep technical insight, and carefully selected 12 remarkable individuals within our vast and dynamic community.
“I’m proud to recognize the 2025 AIwire People to Watch, a group whose work reflects the profound shifts underway in how AI is developed and deployed,” said Jaime Hampton, Managing Editor of AIwire. “Whether in scientific discovery, hardware innovation, or responsible AI design, their achievements show that technical excellence guided by ethics leads to faster breakthroughs in the lab and more reliable systems for science and industry.”
2025 is an exciting year for AI; the virtuous cycle of AI is accelerating due to the convergence of AI, Big Data, Quantum Computing, and HPC, and is opening new vistas for research and discovery breakthroughs. Our 12 People to Watch are at the forefront of these trends, leading by example by transforming ambitious ideas into tools that shape our collective future.
Our intent is to showcase the profound impact of these individuals’ contributions to our industry, reshaping how AI will power science, enterprise, and society. This feature offers our readers the opportunity to learn who they are and why they were chosen as the best and brightest that our community has to offer in 2025.
The Inaugural AIwire People to Watch selections are:
Ian Buck
Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC, Nvidia
Yolanda Gil
Research Professor, USC Information Sciences Institute
Lila Ibrahim
COO, Google Deepmind
Sachin Katti
CTO and AI Officer, Intel
Stefan Leichenauer
Vice President of Engineering, SandboxAQ
Satoshi Matsuoka
Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Mira Murati
Founder and CEO, Thinking Machines Lab
Swami Sivasubramanian
Vice President of Agentic AI, AWS
Rick Stevens
Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences,
Argonne National Laboratory
Jaime Teevan
Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow, Microsoft
Mateo Valero
Director, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Liang Wenfeng
CEO, Deepseek
To read exclusive interviews with each Person to Watch, please visit: https://www.aiwire.net/people-to-watch-2025
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