EdgeAI Writers
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EdgeAI's editorial team is built from practitioners, not press release readers. Engineers, researchers, policy experts, and former operators — people who have lived inside the industry they cover.
14
Staff writers
1,100+
Articles published
11
Countries
8
Disciplines
Senior Editors
Sarah Chen
Senior Editor · AI Ethics & Society
Former policy advisor at the OECD, Sarah joined EdgeAI to translate regulatory complexity into plain English. She's testified before the EU Parliament on algorithmic accountability and believes the most important AI questions are the ones we keep avoiding.
Notable Work
01 The EU AI Act: What 87 Pages of Law Actually Mean for Builders 02 When AI Gets It Wrong, Who Pays?
Marcus Webb
Staff Writer · Machine Learning
Marcus spent six years as an ML engineer at two frontier labs before switching to writing. His paper breakdowns are required reading for engineers who don't have time to read the papers themselves. Specializes in making transformer architectures legible.
Notable Work
01 Scaling Laws: What They Predict and What They Don't 02 Inside DeepMind's AlphaCode 2 ArchitectureThe Full Roster
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Sarah Chen
AI EthicsSenior Editor · AI Ethics & Society
Former policy advisor at the OECD. She's testified before the EU Parliament on algorithmic accountability and believes the most important AI questions are the ones we keep avoiding.
Marcus Webb
Machine LearningStaff Writer · Machine Learning
Six years as an ML engineer at frontier labs. Specializes in making transformer architectures legible for engineers who don't have time to read the papers themselves.
Priya Nair
Future of WorkStaff Writer · Future of Work
Covers how AI is reshaping careers, teams, and the nature of knowledge work through professional interviews. 50+ professionals interviewed per year.
James Okafor
Developer ToolsTools Editor · Developer Experience
Shipped production software at every level of the stack. Runs the tools directory and personally tests every product before it earns a recommendation. Nothing makes the list on reputation alone.
Elena Vasquez
Research & ScienceResearch Correspondent
PhD in computational neuroscience. Reads primary literature the way others read news feeds. Her research roundups have built a cult following among ML practitioners.
Tom Lindgren
Products & StartupsBusiness Correspondent · Startups & VC
A decade in venture capital before switching to journalism. Covers funding rounds, company strategies, and the messy reality of building AI-native products.
Aisha Johnson
AI EthicsPolicy Reporter
Covers AI policy across three continents. Cultivated the most diverse rolodex of regulators and civil society leaders in tech journalism. Believes the story of AI regulation is fundamentally a story about power.
David Kim
Products & StartupsStaff Writer · AI Products & Design
Former product designer at Figma. Writes about the UX implications of intelligent products — what it means to design interfaces that learn, personalize, and occasionally hallucinate.
Lena Schmidt
Research & ScienceData Editor
Leads EdgeAI's data journalism practice. Every benchmark comparison, model leaderboard, and performance claim passes through her desk. Our numbers are the ones other outlets cite.
Carlos Rivera
Developer ToolsOpen Source Correspondent
Contributed to 30+ open-source projects, maintains two libraries with 12k+ GitHub stars. Covers the open-source AI ecosystem — models, frameworks, and communities outside the closed-source consensus.
Mei Tanaka
Machine LearningStaff Writer · AI in Healthcare
Former hospital administrator turned technology journalist. Covers AI's messy, promising, frequently overhyped intersection with medicine. Asks the questions practitioners are afraid to ask.
Ryan O'Brien
AI EthicsSecurity Correspondent
Broke the first major story on adversarial prompt injection vulnerabilities in production AI systems. Holds a CISSP certification and does red-teaming on the side. The paranoid one we're glad to have.
Fatima Al-Hassan
Machine LearningNLP Correspondent
Master's in computational linguistics, three years as an NLP researcher. Her deep dives on multilingual AI and low-resource language coverage are among our most-shared pieces.
Alex Petrov
Research & ScienceRobotics & Autonomy Reporter
Alex covers physical AI — robots, autonomous vehicles, and embodied systems. After five years embedded with robotics teams at Boston Dynamics and Waymo, he knows the difference between a demo and a deployment.
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