At NYU, I co-lead the Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision and Robotics (CILVR) together with Yann LeCun, Rob Fergus, Joan Bruna, Sam Bowman, Brenden Lake, Rajesh Ranganath, He He, Andrew Wilson, Lerrel Pinto, Sumit Chopra and Mengye Ren. I co-lead Machine Learning for Language (ML²) with Sam Bowman, He He and Tal Linzen, and am a part of the B-Team led by Krzysztof Geras at NYU Radiology.
At Genentech, I lead Frontier Research within Prescient Design under gCS (Genentech Computational Sciences).
Postdocs/Scientists/Faculty Fellows
- Nathan Ng (Aug 2024-)
- Sungmin Cha (Sept 2023 -; Faculty Fellow at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
PhD Students
- Vlad Sobol (co-advised by Yann LeCun, Sept 2019 -)
- Angelica Chen (co-advised by Sam Bowman, Sept 2020 – May 2025)
- Daniel Berenberg (co-advised by Rich Bonneau, Sept 2020 – May 2025)
- 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 -)
- 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
- Sangheum Hwang (August 2024 -, Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
- Wanmo Kang (Feb 2025 -, KAIST)
Alumni
Postdocs
- 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
- 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
- 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)