Company, United States
Xerox
Includes Xerox PARC and Xerox Research Europe.
Statistics
- People here now
- 0
- People ever
- 46
- Full moves in and out
- 27 in, 28 out
Our research follows 7,547 researchers, builders, lab leaders and public voices through cited biographies. Missing career records can lower counts. Outdated roles can overstate current counts and change ranks. Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026. Career and profile data as of 22 October 2026.
We estimate that 46 people shaping AI have worked at Xerox, all as former affiliations with no current roles recorded. Its 2 tracked sub-organizations are led by Xerox PARC (35 ever, 0 now). By all-time headcount, Xerox ranks 15th among 3,344 companies (tied for 127th of 8,827 organizations overall). Language and speech leads 11 areas of expertise (14 of 46 people with profile topics). In dated work stints through 2025, active headcount peaked at 17 people in 2000, with the last dated stint ending in 2024. Across dated career transitions, we record 27 full moves in and 28 out, led by arrivals from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (7) and departures to Amazon (3).
A cluster map with one dot per person in 11 groups. The largest areas are Language and speech (14), Computer vision (11) and Knowledge, logic and reasoning (7). The data table lists the counts.
Source: People of Superintelligence career records and profile topics, as of 22 October 2026.
Data table
| Area | Here now | Formerly here | All |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and speech | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| Computer vision | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| Knowledge, logic and reasoning | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Systems, hardware and security | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Human-computer interaction | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Robotics and autonomous systems | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Reinforcement learning, agents and planning | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Policy, ethics and society | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Theory, statistics and optimization | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Science, health and biology | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Cognitive science and neuroscience | 0 | 1 | 1 |
A table of repeated profile topics for qualifying joiner groups from the 1970s through the 2010s.
1970s
8 people joined
- computational linguistics2
- knowledge representation2
- natural language processing2
1980s
9 people joined
- human-ai collaboration2
- model-based diagnosis2
- qualitative reasoning2
1990s
13 people joined
- natural language processing5
- computer vision4
- information retrieval3
- language models3
- computational linguistics2
2000s
6 people joined
- computer vision3
- machine learning2
- multimodal models2
2010s
5 people joined
- computer vision2
- natural language processing2
Source: People of Superintelligence career stints and profile tags, as of 22 October 2026.
Data table
| First stint decade | Joiners | Top profile topics |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8 | computational linguistics (2); knowledge representation (2); natural language processing (2) |
| 1980s | 9 | human-ai collaboration (2); model-based diagnosis (2); qualitative reasoning (2) |
| 1990s | 13 | natural language processing (5); computer vision (4); information retrieval (3); language models (3); computational linguistics (2) |
| 2000s | 6 | computer vision (3); machine learning (2); multimodal models (2) |
| 2010s | 5 | computer vision (2); natural language processing (2) |
Full departures outnumbered full arrivals by 1 (28 out vs. 27 in): arrivals came 22 from universities (81%), 3 from companies (11%) and 2 from labs, nonprofits or government, while departures went 15 to companies (54%), 10 to universities (36%) and 3 to labs, nonprofits or government. We also record 8 arrivals and 10 departures where a person added a role alongside an existing position. Today, 40 of the 46 people formerly at Xerox have a recorded current affiliation elsewhere (16 at companies, 21 at universities and 3 at labs, nonprofits or government bodies).
A stacked column chart of our yearly estimates at Xerox from 1975 to 2024. Each person counts once in each year with an active work stint.
Source: People of Superintelligence dated career stints, as of 22 October 2026.
Data table
| Year | Other | Xerox PARC | People |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1976 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 1977 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 1978 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 1979 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 1980 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 1981 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 1982 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 1983 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 1984 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 1985 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 1986 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 1987 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 1988 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 1989 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 1990 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 1991 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 1992 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 1993 | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| 1994 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 1995 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 1996 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 1997 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| 1998 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 1999 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| 2000 | 5 | 12 | 17 |
| 2001 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2002 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2003 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2004 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2005 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2006 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2007 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2008 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2010 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2011 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2012 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2014 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2015 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2016 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
A three-column flow diagram. People came from organizations on the left, Xerox is in the middle, and destinations are on the right. It shows 27 incoming and 28 outgoing full moves.
Source: People of Superintelligence career records with full moves only, as of 22 October 2026.
Data table
| Direction | Organization | Full moves |
|---|---|---|
| From | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 7 |
| From | SRI International | 2 |
| From | Stanford University | 2 |
| From | AT&T | 1 |
| From | Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc. | 1 |
| From | California Institute of Technology | 1 |
| From | Enkia | 1 |
| From | EURECOM | 1 |
| From | Other | 11 |
| Center | Xerox | 27 in, 28 out |
| To | Amazon | 3 |
| To | AT&T | 1 |
| To | C-Infinity | 1 |
| To | City University of Hong Kong | 1 |
| To | Clairvoyance Corporation | 1 |
| To | DFKI | 1 |
| To | 1 | |
| To | Hewlett-Packard | 1 |
| To | Other | 18 |
A ranked bar chart of the 6 organizations that currently employ the most people formerly at Xerox, led by Google (6).
Source: People of Superintelligence current and former career records, as of 22 October 2026.
Data table
| Current organization | Former people here now | Share of former people with a current role |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 15.0% | |
| Stanford University | 4 | 10.0% |
| Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition | 2 | 5.0% |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 | 5.0% |
| University of Michigan | 2 | 5.0% |
| University of Toronto | 2 | 5.0% |
Across work histories (excluding degrees), 46 of the 46 people who have worked at Xerox (100%) also held a work role at another organization, connecting Xerox to 142 peer institutions.
People here now
We have no evidence of a current role here. Our last dated work record here ended in 2024. All 46 people associated with Xerox appear under former affiliations below.
People with former affiliations
We record 46 people who formerly worked at Xerox. 40 of the 46 have a recorded current role at another organization, led by Google (6). Across the 38 former people with confident OpenAlex records, combined career citations total 624,114 (median h-index 38.5).
- Andreas DengelNow at Osaka Metropolitan University, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau and DFKI
- Anette FrankNow at Heidelberg University
- Ann CopestakeNow at University of Cambridge
- Arun RajkumarNow at IIT Madras
- Ashwin RamNow at Google
- Brad A. MyersNow at Carnegie Mellon University
- Brian C. WilliamsNow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Cédric ArchambeauNow at Agon
- Cong WangNow at City University of Hong Kong
- Daniel G. Bobrow
- Daniel HuttenlocherNow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- David J. FleetNow at University of Toronto, Vector Institute, CIFAR and Google DeepMind
- Ed ChiNow at Google DeepMind
- Eric SchmidtNow at Relativity Space
- Eytan AdarNow at University of Michigan
- Faeze BrahmanNow at Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
- Florent PerronninNow at NAVER LABS Europe
- Ganesh JawaharNow at Google DeepMind
- Gaurav SharmaNow at University of Rochester
- Gregory DudekNow at McGill University, Independent Robotics and Mila
- Gregory GrefenstetteNow at Biggerpan and Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
- Henry S. Baird
- Hinrich SchützeNow at LMU Munich
- J Strother MooreNow at University of Texas at Austin
- Joan BresnanNow at Stanford University
- Johan de KleerNow at C-Infinity
- John E. LairdNow at University of Michigan, Center for Integrated Cognition and Soar Technology
- John Seely BrownNow at University of Southern California
- Kurt VanLehnNow at Arizona State University
- Lauri Karttunen
- Leila TakayamaNow at Robust.AI
- Leonidas GuibasNow at Stanford University and Google DeepMind
- Lucia SpeciaNow at Contex.ai
- Lucy SuchmanNow at AI Now Institute
- Mark J. Stefik
- Marti HearstNow at University of California, Berkeley
- Martin Kay
- Michael BlackNow at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Epic Games
- Patrick J. HayesNow at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
- Peter StrussNow at Vellore Institute of Technology University
- Richard E. FikesNow at Stanford University
- Roger Mohr
- Ronald M. KaplanNow at Stanford University
- Sheila A. McIlraithNow at Schwartz Reisman Institute and Vector Institute
- Thomas MensinkNow at Google DeepMind
- Zeynep AkataNow at Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
Posts that include Xerox
Xerox appears in 3 research posts comparing organizations across AI.
- Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsAcross 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.
- The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
- 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityWe estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.