This is moving too quickly and the list below is already way too outdated (and probably was from the beginning) ...

NYU

• Kyunghyun Cho

CMU

• Chris Dyer
• Graham Neubig

Edinburgh

• Rico Sennrich
• Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
• Barry Haddow
• Alexandra Birch

Stanford

• Thang Luong

MILA (University of Montreal)

• Dzmitry Bahdanau

Harvard

• Yoon Kim

Melbourne

• Trevor Cohn

Huawei / Noah's Ark Lab

• Zhaopeng Tu

University of Helsinki

• Robert Östling

other

• Fariz Rahman (datalog.ai)
• Orhan Firit (Middle East Technical University)
• Holger Schwenk (now at Facebook)
• Yang Liu (Tsinghua University)