Simon Yu ✈️ EMNLP2026

Sewon Min

@sewon__min

Assistant professor @Berkeley_EECS @berkeley_ai || Research scientist at @allen_ai || PhD from @uwcse @uwnlp

Omar Khattab

@lateinteraction

asst professor @MIT CSAIL @nlp_mit. http://ColBERT.ai, http://DSPy.ai (@DSPyOSS), GEPA, RLMs, Pedagogical RL

Greg Durrett

@gregd_nlp

Associate professor at NYU (Courant CS + Center for Data Science) | advisor for @bespokelabsai | large language models and NLP | he/him

Niloofar

@niloofar_mire

Technical staff @humansand, asst. prof @LTIatCMU @CMU_EPP, ex RS in @AIatMeta, postdoc @uwcse, Ph.D. @ucsd_cse, former @MSFTResearch -- NAACL & ACL pr chair

Yao Fu

@Francis_YAO_

Prev. Grok 4.5/4.6 pretraining scaling @xAI; Gemini 3 perception and project Astra @GoogleDeepMind

Weiyan Shi

@shi_weiyan

Prof @Northeastern | MIT TR-35 | #AI2050 Early Career Fellow. Building meta-agents – agents management other agents

Peng Qi

@qi2peng2

AI Lead @Uniphore. Previously: @OrbyAI, @AWS AI, $JD AI, PhD @stanfordnlp, UG @Tsinghua_Uni. He/him. Opinions my own.

Xinyun Chen

@xinyun_chen_

Research Scientist @Meta MSL TBD. Prev. @GoogleDeepMind. PhD @Berkeley_EECS.

tom white

@dribnet

creations with code and networks

Andrew Drozdov

@mrdrozdov

Search and Agents @ Databricks

Costa Huang @ COLM 2026

@vwxyzjn

Exploiting physical rewards @periodiclabs. Creator of @cleanrl_lib. Prev: RL @allen_ai @huggingface.

Lianmin Zheng

@lm_zheng

Inference @meta | Prev: Engineer @xAI, Ph.D. @UCBerkeley, Co-founder @lmsysorg

Nicholas Tomlin

@NickATomlin

Assistant professor at TTIC. Previously: faculty fellow at NYU CDS, PhD student at Berkeley, undergrad at Brown University. Natural language processing. He/him.

Peter Chen

@peterxichen

Building general purpose robotics at Amazon FAR. Previously Covariant CEO and Co-Founder, @OpenAI, @UCBerkeley PhD.

Allen Nie

@allenainie

Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind. Agentic post-training and CUA. Co-creator of Trace. Prev: RL PhD @StanfordAILab, @MSFTResearch, @DeepMind, @AWS Neuron

Rulin Shao

@RulinShao

PhD @UWNLP, Prev @Meta @allen_ai. CLMs, DR Tulu, Spurious Rewards, ReasonIR, MassiveDS

Shannon Shen

@shannonzshen

PhD Student @MIT_CSAIL | previously @allen_ai @semanticscholar @harvard @brownuniversity

You Jiacheng

@YouJiacheng

Zhaofeng Wu

@zhaofeng_wu

Research @OpenAI | PhD @MIT_CSAIL | Previously @MetaAI @GoogleDeepMind @allen_ai | MS'21 BS'19 BA'19 @uwnlp

Qinyuan Ye

@qinyuan_ye

☁️ Research Scientist @SFResearch | 🐾 Teaching machines to be versatile and curious. | Prev @nlp_usc

Stella Li @ COLM

@StellaLisy

PhD student @uwnlp | visiting researcher @AIatMeta | prev @jhuclsp

Zihan "Zenus" Wang

@wzenus

Reasoning agent / RL / efficiency research @NorthwesternU & @nvidia. Ex @Microsoft @yutori_ai @deepseek_ai @uiuc_nlp @RUC1937.

Jenny Zhang

@jennyzhangzt

Improving @Recursive_SI

Leonard Tang

@leonardtang_

vp of ai research @beaconholdings prev ceo @haizelabs

Yifei Zhou

@YifeiZhou02

Research @cursor_ai | RL for LLM agents, prev @thinkymachines @xai @AIatMeta PhD @berkeley_ai, Opinions my own

Saurabh Shah

@saurabh_shah2

barista @humansand prev @allen_ai @Apple @Penn 🎤dabbler of things🎸 🐈‍⬛enjoyer of cats 🐈 and mountains🏔️he/him

Zhengxuan Wu

@ZhengxuanZenWu

member of technical staff @GoogleDeepMind, prev: @StanfordNLP, @VMware, go by zen