Henrik Christensen is a computer science professor and the editor of the US Robotics Roadmap. His research currently focuses on AI and self-driving vehicles. Christensen keeps up closely with AI news, has a lot of contacts in industry and is great at the big picture.
Raj Ammanabrolu is one of our junior faculty in computer science, but he was deeply involved with DataBricks before coming to UC San Diego. His research focuses on LLMs and reinforcement learning. He is great at nuts and bolts. He posted a thread today on Bluesky about this take on what is happening with DeepSeek. He is concerned about a lot of misinformation on DeepSeek.
