Faculty

Sam Bowman headshot (animated, waving)Sam Bowman
Co-PI (on leave)
CDS, Linguistics & CS
Kyunghyun ChoKyunghyun Cho
Co-PI
CDS & CS
Eunsol Choi portraitEunsol Choi
Co-PI
CDS & CS
He HeHe He
Co-PI
CDS & CS
Tal Linzen portraitTal Linzen
Co-PI
CDS & Linguistics
Joao Sedoc headshotJoão Sedoc
Co-PI
Stern School of Business
Jason WestonJason Weston
Lab Affiliate
Meta FAIR
Affiliate in CS

Postdocs and Staff


Duygu Ataman
Faculty Fellow, CS
Nov. 2021–
Yiding Hao portrait
Sophie Hao
Faculty Fellow, CDS
Sep. 2022–
Abulhair Saparov
Abulhair Saparov
Postdoc, CDS, He
June 2022–

PhD Students

Angelica Chen portrait
Angelica Chen
CDS, Cho
Sep. 2020–
Hung-Ting Chen portrait
Hung-Ting Chen
CS, Choi
Sep. 2024–
Betty Hou portrait
Betty Li Hou
CS, Sunoo Park, collab. w/ Bowman
Sep. 2022–
Michael Hu portrait
Michael Hu
CDS, Cho & Linzen
Sep. 2022–
Lavender Jiang
Lavender Jiang
CDS, Cho & Eric Oermann
Sep. 2021–

Nitish Joshi
CS, He
Sep. 2020–
Yuhan Liu portrait
Yuhan Liu
CS, Choi
Sep. 2024–
Nicholas Lourie
Nicholas Lourie
CS, Cho & He
Sep. 2021–
Divyam Madaan portraitDivyam Madaan
CS, Cho & Sumit Chopra
Sep. 2021–
Will Merrill portrait
Will Merrill
CDS, Linzen
Sep. 2021–

Vishakh Padmakumar
CDS, He
Sep. 2020–
Jane Pan portraitJane Pan
CS, Bowman & He
Sep. 2023–
Jackson PettyJackson Petty
Linguistics, Linzen
Sep. 2022–
Jacob Pfau
Jacob Pfau
CDS, Bowman & He
Sep. 2022–
Megan Richards portrait
Megan Richards
CS, Cho
Sep. 2024–
Danielle Rothermel
Danielle Rothermel
CDS, Cho
Sep. 2022–
William Timkey
William Timkey
Linguistics, Linzen
Sep. 2022–
Kai Xu portrait
Kai Xu
CS, He
Sep. 2024–
Weizhe Yuan portrait
Weizhe Yuan
CS, Cho
Sep. 2022–
Lining Zhang portrait
Lining Zhang
Stern (Information Systems), Sedoc
Sep. 2023–
Michael Zhang portrait
Michael Zhang
CS, Choi
Sep. 2024–

Master’s and Undergraduate Students

Yueh-Han Chen portraitYueh-Han Chen
MS, CDS, He
July 2024–
Raghav Mantri portraitRaghav Mantri
MS, CS, Ataman
Mar. 2024–

Visitors

Valerie Chen portraitValerie Chen
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, He
June 2024–
Ofir Press portraitOfir Press
PhD, University of Washington, Cho
Jan. 2023–
Jiaxin Wen portraitJiaxin Wen
MS, Tsinghua University, He
June 2024–

 
 

 
 

 

Alumni

Postdocs and Staff

Asa Cooper Stickland, UK AI Safety Institute (Postdoc, Bowman, 2024)
Julian
Michael (Postdoc and Lab Manager, Bowman, 2024)
Shi Feng
, Assistant Professor, George Washington University (Postdoc, He and Bowman, 2024)
Samuel Arnesen
(Junior Research Scientist, Bowman, 2024)
David Rein, Member of Technical Staff, Model Evaluation and Threat Research (Junior Research Scientist, Bowman, 2024)
Miles Turpin, Research Scientist, Scale AI (Junior Research Scientist, Bowman, 2024)
Salsabila Mahdi, PhD student, University of Wisconsin–Madison (Junior Research Scientist, Bowman, 2024)
Saadia Gabriel, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (Faculty Fellow, 2024)
Abulhair Saparov, Assistant Professor, Purdue University (Postdoc, He, 2024)
Naomi Saphra, Kempner Fellow, Harvard University (Postdoc, Cho, 2023)
Chen Zhao, Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai (Postdoc, Cho & He, 2023)
Sebastian Schuster, Postdoc, Saarland University -> Lecturer / Assistant Professor, University College London (Postdoc, Linzen, 2022)
Najoung Kim, Assistant Professor, Boston University (Faculty Fellow, 2022)
Jana Thompson, Language Engineer, Amazon Alexa (Research Engineer, Bowman, 2022)
Iacer Calixto, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam (Postdoc, Cho, 2021)
Clara Vania, Applied Scientist, Amazon Alexa (Postdoc, Bowman, 2021)
Haokun Liu, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -> University of Toronto (Junior Research Scientist, Bowman, 2020)
Katharina Kann, Assistant Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz & University of Colorado Boulder (Postdoc, Bowman & Cho, 2020)
Phil Yeres, Software Engineer, Reddit (Research Engineer, Bowman, 2020)
Stanislas Lauly, Applied Research Scientist, Amazon (Postdoc, Cho, 2018)

PhD Students

Alexander Lyzhov, AI Engineer, AIMon (CS, Wilson & Bowman, 2024)
Richard Pang, Research Scientist, Meta (CS, He & Cho, 2024)
Nikita Nangia, Amazon Web Services (CDS, Bowman, 2024)
Julien Dirani, Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University (Psychology, Liina Pylkkänen, collaborating w/ Bowman, 2024)
Jason Phang, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI (CDS, Bowman, 2024)
Trieu Trinh, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind (CS, He, 2024)
Aishwarya Kamath, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind (CDS, Cho & LeCun, 2023)
Aaron Mueller, Postdoc, Technion / Northeastern -> Assistant Professor, Boston University (JHU, Linzen & Mark Dredze, 2023)
Meet Barot (CDS, R. Bonneau & Cho, 2023)
Alicia Parrish, Research Scientist, Google (Linguistics, Liina Pylkkänen, collaborating w/ Bowman, 2022)
Alex Warstadt, Postdoc, ETH Zurich -> Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego (Linguistics, Bowman, 2022)
Alex Wang, Research Scientist, Cohere (CS, Bowman & Cho, 2022)
Phu Mon Htut, Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services (CDS, Bowman & Cho, 2022)
Ethan Perez, Research Scientist, Anthropic (CS, Cho & Douwe Kiela, 2022)
Ilia Kulikov, Research Scientist, Meta (CS, Cho, 2022)
Jason Lee, Machine Learning Scientist, Tesla Autopilot -> Cruise -> Research Scientist, Salesforce AI Research (CS, Cho, 2021)
Sebastien Jean, Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services (CS, Cho, 2021)
Sean Welleck, Postdoc, University of Washington -> Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University (CS, Cho & Zheng Zhang, 2020)
Elman Mansimov, Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services (CS, Cho, 2020)
Sheng-Fu Wang, Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica (Linguistics, Gillian Gallagher, collaborating w/ Bowman, 2020)
Rodrigo Nogueira, Founder/CEO of Maritaca.ai and Adjunct Professor at UNICAMP (CSE, Cho & Silva, 2019)
Xiang Zhang, Research Scientist, Google (CS, Yann LeCun, 2019)
Jake Zhao, Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University (CS, Yann LeCun, 2019)
Adina Williams, Research Scientist, Meta (Linguistics, Liina Pylkkänen, collaborating w/ Bowman, 2018)
Yacine Jernite, ML and Society Lead, HuggingFace (CS, David Sontag, collaborating w/ Bowman, 2018)
WooJin Chung, Assistant Professor, Seoul National University (Linguistics, Chris Barker, collaborating w/ Bowman, 2018)
Orhan Firat, Research Scientist, Google (METU, Cho & Fatos Yarman Vural, 2016)

MS Students

Xiang Pan, PhD student, NYU (CS, He, 2023)
Saksham Bassi, Software Engineer, Amazon (CS, Duygu Ataman, 2023)
Eugene Choi, Member of Technical Staff, Cohere (CS, Bowman & Cho, 2023)
Johnny Ma, Data Scientist, HBO Max -> StubHub (CDS, He, 2022)
Maksim Eremeev, Research Engineer, Elemental Cognition -> Genentech (CDS, Cho, 2022)
Udit Arora, Machine Learning Engineer, Google (CS, He, 2021)
Will Huang, Data Scientist, Capital One (Courant, Bowman, 2021)
Jesse Swanson, Machine Learning Engineer, Genentech (CDS, Bowman, 2021)
Aniket Bhatnagar, Machine Learning Engineer, Verneek (CS, He, 2021)
Haokun Liu, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (CS, Bowman, 2020)
Yada Pruksachatkun, Amazon (CDS, Bowman, 2020)
Shikha Bordia, Research Engineer, Verisk Analytics (CS, Bowman, 2019)
Anhad Mohananey, Software Engineer, Google (CS, Bowman, 2019)
Nishant Subramani, Research Scientist, Scale AI (CS, Bowman & Cho, 2019)
Jason Phang, PhD student, NYU (CDS, Bowman, Cho & Geras, 2019)
Nikita Nangia, PhD student, NYU (CDS, Bowman, MS 2018, MPhil 2023)
Thibault Févry, Google AI Resident (CDS, Bowman, 2018)
Amanpreet Singh, Lead Researcher, HuggingFace (CS, Bowman, Fergus, & Weston, 2018)
Andy Gan, PepsiCo (CDS, Cho, 2018)
Xiaonan Zhao, Applied Scientist, Amazon (Information Systems, Bowman, 2017)
Andrew Drozdov, PhD Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst (CS, Bowman & Cho, 2017)
Matthew Dunn, LivePerson (CDS, Cho, 2017)
Tian Wang, Applied Researcher, eBay (CDS, Cho, 2016)
Yijun Xiao, PhD student, University of California, Santa Barbara (CDS, Cho, 2016)
Jake Zhao, PhD student, NYU (CDS, LeCun, 2016)

Undergraduate Students

Anastasia Samoilova (CS, Cho, 2022)
Yian Zhang, MS Student, Stanford University (CS, Bowman, 2021)
Yichen Gong, Horizon Robotics (Tandon CS, Bowman, 2018)
Kelly Zhang, PhD Student, Harvard University (CS, Bowman & LeCun, 2018)

Visiting Researchers/Students

Eneko Agirre (Visiting Professor, Cho, University of the Basque Country, Aug. 2016–Dec. 2016 & Sep. 2021–Dec. 2021)
Jon Ander Campos (Visiting Student, Cho, University of the Basque Country, Sep. 2021–Dec. 2021, Oct. 2022–Dec. 2022)
Keunwoo Choi (Visiting Student, Cho, Queen Mary University, July 2016–Dec. 2016)
Yun Chen (Visiting Student, Bowman and Cho, University of Hong Kong, Sep. 2017–Mar. 2018)
Junyoung Chung (Visiting Student, Cho, Université de Montréal, Oct. 2015–Mar. 2016)
Akiko Eriguchi (Visiting Student, Cho, University of Tokyo, Aug. 2016–Nov. 2016)
Shi Feng (Visiting Student, He, University of Maryland, Sep. 2019–Dec. 2019)
Jiatao Gu (Visiting Student, Cho, University of Hong Kong, June 2016–Dec. 2016)
Felix Hill (Visiting Student, Cho, University of Cambridge, Apr. 2016)
Dirk Hovy (Visiting Professor, Bowman, Bocconi University, Oct. 2019–Nov. 2019)
Hannah Rose Kirk
(Visiting Student, He, University of Oxford, Sep. 2023–Dec. 2023)
Vid Kocian (Visiting Student, Bowman, University of Oxford, June 2020–Sep. 2020)
Jason Lee (Visiting Student, Cho, ETH Zurich, June 2016–Sep. 2016)
Bingzhi Li (Visiting Student, Linzen and Najoung Kim, Université Paris Cité, Sep. 2022–Dec. 2022)
Jonas Pfeiffer (Visiting Student, Cho, TU Darmstadt, Jan. 2022–June 2022)
Javier Rando (Visiting Student, He, ETH Zurich, Mar. 2023–Aug. 2023)
Freda Haoyue Shi (Visiting Student, Bowman, Peking University, June 2017–Sep. 2017)
Saku Sugawara (Visiting Professor, Bowman, National Institute of Informatics (Japan), June 2020–Dec. 2021)
Zhiliang Tian (Visiting Student, He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Sep. 2020–Sep. 2021)
Harsh Trivedi (Visiting Student, Bowman, Stony Brook University, June 2020–June 2022)
Saranya Venkatraman (Visiting Student, He, Penn State University, Jan. 2020–May 2024)
Kelvin Xu (Visiting Student, Cho, University of Montreal, Oct. 2015–Mar. 2016)

Note: For Kyunghyun Cho’s collaborators not working on language, see Kyungyhun’s lab site.