Gary Marcus, a scientist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur, is a professor of psychology and neural science at NYU and the founder of Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber). His research on language, computation, artificial intelligence, and cognitive development has been published widely, in leading journals such as Science and Nature. He is also the author of four books, including The Algebraic Mind, Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind, and the New York Times best-seller Guitar Zero. He contributes frequently to the New Yorker and the New York Times.

Toni Reid oversees the product development teams for Echo devices and Alexa customer experience. Reid joined Amazon in 1998 as a recruiter and has worked on several Amazon teams since then, including Amazon Fresh, IMDb, and Amazon Media Group. She earned her bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of North Texas.

Ruslan Salakhutdinov received his PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto in 2009. After spending two postdoctoral years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab, he joined the University of Toronto as an assistant professor in the Departments of Statistics and Computer Science. In 2016 he joined the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University as an associate professor. Ruslan's primary interests lie in deep learning, machine learning, and large-scale optimization. His main research goal is to understand the computational and statistical principles required for discovering structure in large amounts of data.

Tom Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, cofounder of the International Institute for Analytics, fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics/big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School and School of Public Health, and MIT Sloan School. Davenport pioneered the concept of "competing on analytics" with his best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article and 2007 book. His most recent book (with Julia Kirby) is Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines. He wrote or edited 17 other books and over 100 articles for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, the Financial Times, and many other publications.

Before cofounding Vicarious, Dileep was CTO of Numenta, an AI company he cofounded with Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky. Before Numenta, he was a research fellow at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute. Dileep has authored 22 patents and several influential papers on the mathematics of brain circuits. His research on hierarchical models of the brain earned him a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He earned his MS in EE from Stanford and his BS from IIT in Bombay.