Research Group

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

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)