PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Connor Shorten

Connor Shorten is an AI researcher whose work spans deep-learning education, data augmentation, and information retrieval. In 2019, he studied AI at Florida Atlantic University and created Henry AI Labs videos that explained deep-learning papers. By 2022, he was a Product Researcher at Weaviate and coauthored an FAU paper on consistency learning with data augmentation. In January 2023, he hosted the Weaviate Podcast with 34 published episodes; his 2024–2026 papers examined structured language-model outputs, database queries, and visual retrieval over scientific papers. As of October 2026, he is a Product Researcher at Weaviate.

Now at
Weaviate
Born
1997
Works
14
Citations
15,228
h-index
5
Badges

Years link to their sources. Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2019

    PhD research at FAU

    In 2019, he studies AI at Florida Atlantic University as a PhD researcher.

  2. 2019

    Henry AI Labs explainers

    In 2019, he creates Henry AI Labs videos that explain deep-learning papers.

  3. 2022

    Product research and augmentation

    In 2022, he is a Product Researcher at Weaviate and coauthors an FAU paper on consistency learning with data augmentation.

  4. January 2023

    Hosting the Weaviate Podcast

    In January 2023, he hosts the Weaviate Podcast, which has 34 published episodes.

  5. August 2024

    StructuredRAG benchmark

    In August 2024, he coauthors StructuredRAG, a six-task benchmark that tests whether language models follow structured response formats such as JSON.

  6. January 2025

    Database function calling

    In January 2025, he coauthors a paper that defines a tool interface for language models to query databases with search, filters, aggregation, and groupby operations.

  7. February 2026

    IRPAPERS retrieval benchmark

    In February 2026, he coauthors IRPAPERS, a benchmark of 3,230 pages from 166 scientific papers for comparing image-based and text-based retrieval and question-answering systems.

  8. As of October 2026

    Product Researcher at Weaviate

    As of October 2026, he is a Product Researcher at Weaviate. In August 2026, he writes about scaling test-time compute for retrieval and Query Agent Search Mode.

Career

  1. Since 2022WeaviateProduct Researcher

Education

  1. From 2019Florida Atlantic UniversityPhD

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Videos

YouTube videos in which Connor Shorten speaks or appears, newest first. A model chose them from YouTube search results. List updated 21 October 2026.

  1. Francois Chollet - On the Measure Of IntelligenceMachine Learning Street Talk · 19 June 2020 · 2 h 34 min
  2. OpenAI GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot LearnersMachine Learning Street Talk · 6 June 2020 · 1 h 52 min
  3. Exploring Open-Ended Algorithms: POETMachine Learning Street Talk · 9 April 2020 · 1 h 13 min

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  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Florida Atlantic University. We 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.
  2. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  3. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIWe estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  4. 43% of living people shaping AI work outside their country of birthWe estimate that 43% of living people shaping AI work outside their country of birth (520 of 1,198 people with known birth and employment countries).

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. GANs, CNN Architectures, Deep Learning on Graphs and Henry AI Labs with Connor Shorten || TAIWS #6 podcasts.apple.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Weaviate 1.15 release weaviate.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. An Exploration of Consistency Learning with Data Augmentation journals.flvc.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Weaviate Podcast Search weaviate.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. StructuredRAG: JSON Response Formatting with Large Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Querying Databases with Function Calling arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. IRPAPERS: A Visual Document Benchmark for Scientific Retrieval and Question Answering arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Authors | Weaviate weaviate.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Scaling Test-Time Compute in Search Mode weaviate.io. Checked 21 October 2026.