Leadership

Technology leader with a strong track record of bringing emerging technologies in AI, accelerated science and quantum computing out of the lab and into the world. PhD physicist with deep experience leading teams across research, software engineering, design, product management, sales, ecosystem partnerships and open source. I am energized by leading teams with bold missions and the potential for large impact.

Rebecca Weiss is the Executive Director of MLCommons, as well as a distinguished data scientist and computational social scientist known for innovative large-scale data analysis of online behavior. Previously, she was the head of Research and Innovation at Mozilla, where she created the privacy-preserving Rally user data donation platform, and also founded and led the Firefox Data Science organization.

Weiss serves on the board of the Pew Research Center, has been a fellow at Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia, and an advisor to U.S. Congress on AI policy and strategy. She's been an advisor to the U.S. Congress on artificial intelligence policy and her research has been widely published in leading computer science and social science conferences and journals. She holds a PhD from Stanford University, an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BA with class 1 honours from the University of British Columbia.

Jose is the Founder and CEO of BrightQuery (BQ): The Factual AI Company, where he also leads BQ’s open data efforts through opendata.org. With over a decade of academic and commercial collaboration with U.S. statistical agencies like the IRS, NCSES, Census Bureau, BLS, and SBA, Jose brings deep expertise in economic and financial data.

His academic career includes leadership and faculty roles in finance at UCLA’s Anderson School and in accounting at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he founded the highly regarded Berkeley Charter of Professional Accountancy (BCPA). He previously taught at Temple University and SUNY Buffalo, co-founding the Journal of Human Capital published by the University of Chicago Press. In 2011, he co-founded Powerlytics, a data company built on anonymized IRS data.

Jose received the 2015 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award from the AAA and AICPA, an honor given to the single most outstanding accounting research published that year. His academic research—funded in part by the NSF—focused on modeling U.S. businesses and the economy using regulatory filings, and he has published extensively in top peer-reviewed journals in economics, accounting, and management. 

Jose holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and earned B.S. degrees in Economics, Mathematics, and Management Science from MIT. Born in New York and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, Jose is of Mexican origin and was influenced by his father, a senior UN diplomat, to pursue a mission-driven career centered on fostering global economic development.

Greg Lindahl is an astrophysicist and technologist who has advised Common Crawl since 2012. He was previously the Founder and CTO of Blekko, an internet search engine. Before joining Common Crawl full-time in 2023, Greg was a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, working at the Center for Astrophysics - Harvard & Smithsonian. He has also contributed to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. Greg is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded three successful startups.

Technology leader with a strong track record of bringing emerging technologies in AI, accelerated science and quantum computing out of the lab and into the world. PhD physicist with deep experience leading teams across research, software engineering, design, product management, sales, ecosystem partnerships and open source. I am energized by leading teams with bold missions and the potential for large impact.

“Transparency is the new compute,” Sean Hughes likes to say, and he treats the motto as a blueprint. For him, open innovation is more than lifting the hood; it means building an ecosystem where people can co-create, inspect, and share open data, tools, and models, unleashing the state-of-the-art AI through collaborative scientific research that fuels new industries, delivers customer value, and benefits society at large.

Sean’s AI journey began in 2001 at De La Rue, where he architected an expert system for cash systems field service management. At HP/HPE, he later launched a new platform with developer go-to-market programs for AI-as-a-Service, experience that underpins the ecosystem leadership he brought to Intel, and now ServiceNow.

As a founding board member of the AI Alliance’s Technology & Advocacy Association, Sean shapes global policy and standards that keep this vision at AI’s core. He also serves on the AI Alliance Steering Committee, co-leads the Foundation Models, Data & Agents focus area, guides strategy for the Community Core Team, and helped launch the Open Trusted Data Initiative, giving enterprises a clear path to comply with the EU AI Act and related regulations.

At ServiceNow, Sean directs the Open-Science Ecosystem, forging collaborations that turn research into production. He co-founded BigCode, a 1,200-member research community across 60 countries whose open-access StarCoder models power Now Assist—delivering a documented 50% boost in developer productivity.

Sean also represents ServiceNow in ECMA TC-56, co-authoring NLIP (Natural Language Interaction Protocol), the forthcoming “HTTP for AI agents” standard that will let autonomous multi-agent systems connect, coordinate, and complete knowledge work safely across human and digital boundaries. Earlier, he grew HPE’s cloud AI-as-a-Service platform to 20,000 developers and set ecosystem strategy for Intel’s US $3.5 billion AI portfolio.

Throughout his career, Sean has pursued one goal: scale the benefits of AI for everyone, advancing open research, strong safety guardrails, and inclusive programs that let businesses, governments, and communities innovate responsibly and with confidence.

Dr. Christopher Nguyen is CEO and co-founder of Aitomatic, a Silicon Valley leader in Industrial GenAI. As President and CEO of Arimo-Panasonic, he spearheaded Panasonic’s global Industrial AI initiatives. At Google, as its first Engineering Director, he launched Google Apps/Gmail and scaled AI-backed systems for millions worldwide, earning the Google Founders Award.

At the AI Alliance, he co-leads the Foundation Models Focus Area and serves on its Steering Committee. He is the creator of Dana, the world’s first agent-native programming language for transparent, intent-driven AI agents; SemiKong, the first open-source LLM for semiconductor; and OpenDXA, the first open-source framework built for complex industrial AI systems, all collaborative efforts of AI Alliance members, led by Aitomatic. A strong advocate for open innovation, his other open-source contributions include founding OpenSSA (Small Specialist AI Agents), Human-First AI (H1st), and pioneering Distributed DataFrame (DDF) for Apache Spark.

His global impact spans co-founding HKUST's Computer Engineering Program, leading Asia’s first internet implementations through CyberTouch/Agenda-Asia, and transforming Vietnam’s digital landscape through Unicode 1.0 Vietnamese character encoding standards.

Dr. Nguyen holds a BS from UC Berkeley and MS/PhD from Stanford. He was a UC Regents Scholar, Berkeley Alumni Scholar, and National Science Foundation Fellow.