People you may want to follow
1. Dong Yu, MS
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/dongyu/
2. Geoffrey E. Hinton, U. Toronto
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/
3. Deng Li, MS
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/deng/
4. Tara Sainath, IBM
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tara_Sainath/publications/
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/s/Sainath:Tara_N=.html
5. Daniel Povey, JHU
6. Patrick Kenny, CRIM
http://www.crim.ca/perso/patrick.kenny/
7. Nelson Morgan, ICSI Berkley
http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~morgan/
8. Jonathan Berant , Stanford NLP
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/joberant/
9. Yann LeCun
10. Hua Wang
http://inside.mines.edu/~huawang/
11. Heng Huang
http://ranger.uta.edu/~heng/publications.html
12. Feipeng Nie
http://www.escience.cn/people/fpnie/papers.html
13. Yoshua Bengio
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/yoshua_en/
14. Nils J. Nilsson
http://ai.stanford.edu/~nilsson/
15. James Martens
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jmartens/research.html
16. Hui Jiang
https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/user/hj/
17. Ilya Sutskever