At NYU, I co-lead the Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision and Robotics (CILVR). I co-lead Machine Learning for Language (ML²) with He He, Tal Linzen, Eunsol Choi and Greg Durrett, and was a part of the B-Team led by Krzysztof Geras at NYU Radiology (Krzysztof left to start his own company in 2025).
At Genentech, I lead Frontier Research within Prescient Design under CS CoE (Computational Science Center of Excellence).
Postdocs/Scientists/Faculty Fellows
- Sungmin Cha (Sept 2023 -; Faculty Fellow at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
PhD Students
- Lavender Jiang (co-advised by Eric Oermann, Sept 2021 -)
- Divyam Madaan (co-advised by Sumit Chopra, Sept 2021 -)
- Nicholas Lourie (co-advised by He He, Sept 2021 -)
- Haresh Rajamohan (co-advised by Cem Deniz, Sept 2021 -)
- Claudia Skok Gibbs (co-advised by Rich Bonneau, Sept 2021 -)
- Weizhe Yuan (Sept 2022 -)
- Danielle Rothermel (Sept 2022 -)
- Bing Yan (co-advised by Joan Bruna, Sept 2022 -)
- Michael Hu (co-advised by Tal Linzen, Sept 2022 -)
- Vivek Agarwal (co-advised by Vasant Dhar, Sept 2022 -)
- Radhika Dua (co-advised by Eric Oermann, Sept 2024 -)
- Ioana Marinescu (co-advised by Eric Oermann, Sept 2024 -)
- Qingyang Zhu (co-advised by Eric Oermann, Sept 2024 -)
- Megan Richards (Sept 2024 -)
- William Falcon (co-advised by Yann LeCun, Sep 2018 -, NSF Graduate Fellow, temporarily on the leave, the founder of Grid.ai)
- Jiwoong Im (co-advised by Cristina Savin & Narges Razavian, Sept 2020 -, temporarily on the leave)
MSc/BSc Students
Visiting Researchers/Students
- Wanmo Kang (Feb 2025 -, KAIST)
Alumni
Postdocs
- Nathan Ng (Aug 2024-June 2025)
- Duygu Ataman (Nov 2021 – Oct 2024, now at Middle East Technical University)
- Julius Adebayo (2022-2023, now a Founder of Guide Labs)
- Joshua Yao-Yu Lin (2022-2023, now an ML Scientist at Prescient Design)
- Naomi Saphra (Feb 2021 – Aug 2023, now a Kempner Fellow at Harvard)
- Cheolhyoung Lee (Sept 2020 – August 2023, now at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology)
- Chen Zhao (co-mentored with He He, Jan 2022 – July 2023, now at NYU Shanghai)
- Iacer Calixto (Apr 2019 – Jan 2021, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, now at the Academic Medical Center in the University of Amsterdam)
- Stanislaw Jastrzebski (Apr 2019 – Sept 2020, co-mentored by Kryzsztof Geras at NYU Radiology, previously at Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, now a co-founder of Molecule.One)
- Katharina Kann (Apr 2018 – Dec 2019, co-mentored by Sam Bowman, now at CU Boulder)
- Stanislas Lauly (Postdoc, Sept 2016 – Aug 2018, previously at Amazon, now at Tempus.AI)
- Krzysztof Geras (Postdoc, June 2016 – March 2018, previously at NYU School of Medicine, now a co-founder of Ataraxis.AI)
PhD
- Daniel Berenberg (co-advised by Rich Bonneau, Sept 2020 – Aug 2025)
- Vlad Sobol (co-advised by Yann LeCun, Sept 2019 – May 2025)
- Angelica Chen (co-advised by Sam Bowman, Sept 2020 – May 2025)
- Taro Makino (co-advised by Krzysztof Geras, Sept 2020 – May 2025, now at Sakana.AI)
- Yuanzhe (Richard) Pang (co-advised by He He, Sept 2019 – July 2024, now at Meta)
- Cal Peyser (co-advised by Michael Picheney, Sept 2020 – May 2024, now at Google)
- Nan Wu (co-advised by Krzysztof Geras, Sept 2018 – Aug 2022, Google PhD Fellowship)
- Aishwarya Kamath (co-advised by Yann LeCun, Sept 2019 – December 2023, now at Meta)
- Tymor Hamamsy (co-advised by Rich Bonneau, Sept 2019 – Aug 2023, a co-founder of PhareHealth)
- Artie Shen (co-advised by Kryzsztof Geras, Sept 2018 – Aug 2023, now at NYU Radiology)
- Meet Barot (co-advised by Rich Bonneau, Sept 2018 – May 2023)
- Omar Mahmood (co-advised by Rich Bonneau, Sept 2018 – Aug 2022, Prescient Design)
- Alex Wang (co-advised by Sam Bowman, Sep 2017 – May 2022, AdeptMind Scholar & NSF Graduate Fellow, now at Cohere.AI)
- Phu Mon Htut (co-advised by Sam Bowman, Sep 2017 – May 2022, AdeptMind Scholar, now at Amazon)
- Cinjon Resnick (co-advised by Joan Bruna, Sep 2017 – March 2022)
- Ethan Perez (co-advised by Douwe Kiela at FAIR, Sept 2018 – March 2022, NSF Graduate Fellow, now at Anthropic)
- Ilia Kulikov (co-advised by Jason Weston, Sep 2017 – Jan 2022, now at Facebook)
- Will Whitney (Sept 2016 – July 2021, now at DeepMind)
- Ren Yi (co-advised by Rich Bonneau, PhD, June 2021, now at Google)
- Sebastien Jean (PhD, May 2021, now at Amazon)
- Jason Lee (PhD, May 2021, Tesla, Cruise, now at Salesforce)
- Sean Welleck (PhD, Dec 2020, University of Washington, now at CMU)
- Elman Mansimov (PhD, Dec 2020, now at Amazon)
- Rodrigo Nogueira (PhD, June 2019,
Epistemic,U. Waterloo, now at Universidade Estadual de Campinas) - Jiakai Zhang (PhD, May 2019,
Amazon, now at Waymo) - Orhan Firat (co-advised by Fatos Yarman Vural, 2016, now at Google)
Others
- Sangheum Hwang (August 2024 – July 2025, Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
- Hyun Oh Song (September 2023 – August 2024, Seoul National University)
- Jang-Hyun Kim (February 2024 – Aug 2024, Seoul National University)
- Jungwoo Lee (September 2023 – Jan 2024, Seoul National University)
- Deokjae Lee (September 2023 – Jan 2024, Seoul National University)
- Daekyu Kim (March 2023 -, Samsung Electronics)
- Ofir Press (February 2023 – Aug 2023, now at Princeton Language Institute)
- Maksim Eremeev (March 2021 – December 2022)
- Eugene Choi (Nov 2021 – March 2023)
- Anastasia Samoilova (June 2022 – December 2022)
- Jisu Ryu (Jan 2022 -, Samsung Electronics)
- Jonas Pfeiffer (Jan 2022 – April 2022, TU Darmstadt)
- Jon Ander Campos (Visiting student, University of Basque Country, Sept 2021 – Dec 2021)
- Shuhei Kurita (RIKEN, Jan 2020-June 2020)
- Mozhi Zhang (UMD, Sept 2019 – May 2020)
- Jaedeok Kim (Samsung Research, Nov 2019-May 2020)
- Taehun Kim (Samsung Research, Nov 2019-May 2020)
- Antonio Gois (Visiting Scientist, Unbabel, Sept 2019-Jan 2020)
- Sungyong Seo (Visiting PhD student, USC, July 2019-Feb 2020)
- Elham Jebalbarezi (Visiting PhD student, HKUST, Sept 2019-Dec 2019)
- Raphael Shu (Visiting PhD Student, U Tokyo, Jan 2019-June 2019)
- Nishant Subramani (MSc, Sep 2017 – May 2019)
- Jihun Oh (Research Scientist, Samsung Electronics, June 2018-May 2019)
- Yunjeong Choi (Research Scientist, Samsung Electronics, Sept 2018-Feb 2019)
- Katrina Evtimova (MSc Jan 2017 – June 2017, )
- Isaac Henrion (MSc, Sep 2016 – Aug 2019, Isaac’s Bagels)
- Seokho Kang (Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, 2018)
- Tian Wang (MSc, CDS)
- Meihao Chen (MSc, CDS)
- Konrad Zolna (PhD Student, Jagiellonian University, Poland, Feb 2018 – May 2018)
- Laura Graesser (M.Sc., CS, Jan 2018 – Aug 2018, Google)
- Yun Chen (Visiting PhD Student, HKU, Oct 2017 – Feb 2018)
- Artie Shen (MSc, CDS, Dec 2016 – Aug 2018)
- Jingyi Su (MSc, CDS, May 2017 – May 2018)
- Nan Wu (MSc, CDS, Sept 2017 – Aug 2018)
- Naomi Saphra (Visiting student, U. Edinburgh, Jan 2017 — May 2017)
- Maria (Masha) Zorin (Research student intern, 2017)
- Marine Carpuat (Professor, University of Maryland, Summer 2017)
- Tim Vieira (PhD Student, Johns Hopkins University)
- Jessica Forde
- Luiza Sayfullina (PhD Student, Aalto University)
- Adrian Lancucki (PhD Student, University of Wrocław)
- Matthew Dunn (Jan 2017 – June 2017)
- Jake Zhao (M.Sc., CDS, 2015-2016)
- Yijun Xiao (M.Sc., CDS, 2015-2016)
- Junyoung Chung (Visiting Student, U. Montreal, Oct 2015 — March 2016, DeepMind)
- Kelvin Xu (Visiting Student, U. Montreal, Oct 2015 — March 2016)
- Felix Hill (Visiting Student, U. Cambridge, Apr 2016, DeepMind)
- Jason Lee (PhD student, ETH Zurich, June 2016 — Sep 2016, Tesla)
- Akiko Eriguchi (Visiting student, University of Tokyo, Aug 2016 — Nov 2016, Microsoft)
- Eneko Agirre (Visiting Professor, University of Basque Country, Aug 2016 — Dec 2016, Sep 2021 — Dec 2021)
- Jiatao Gu (Visiting student, University of Hong Kong, June 2016 — Dec 2016, Facebook AI Research)
- Keunwoo Choi (Visiting student, Queen Mary University, July 2016 — Dec 2016,
Spotify, ByteDance)