UCSB AI

Diyi Yang

@Diyi_Yang

Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab Part time @humansand LLMs for Humans

Danqi Chen @COLM 2026

@danqi_chen

Associate professor @princetonPLI @PrincetonCS Previously: @thinkymachines @facebookai, @stanfordnlp, @Tsinghua_Uni

Sewon Min

@sewon__min

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

Yuandong Tian

@tydsh

Co-founder of @Recursive_SI. ex-Meta FAIR Director. ex-Google. Reasoning, Optimization and Understanding LLM. Novelist in spare time. PhD in @CMU_Robotics.

Mohit Bansal

@mohitban47

Parker Distinguished Prof @UNC. PECASE/ACL/AAAI Fellow. Director http://MURGeLab.cs.unc.edu (@unc_ai_group). Past @Berkeley_AI @TTIC_Connect @IITKanpur #NLP #CV

Greg Durrett

@gregd_nlp

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

Hanna Hajishirzi

@HannaHajishirzi

VP@Microsoft-AI; past: Olmo, Tulu

Eunsol Choi

@eunsolc

on natural language processing / machine learning. assistant prof at @NYUDataScience @NYU_Courant prev @UTCompSci @googleai, @uwcse, @Cornell.

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

Sameer Singh

@sameer_

Safety at @AIatMeta and Prof at @UCIrvine, prev Cofounder @SpiffyAI (aka Envive), works on reliable LLMs, explanations for A, safety, and debugging/evaluation.

Songlin Yang

@SonglinYang4

pretraining @thinkymachines. Prev. PhD @MIT_CSAIL. INTP 🐱. she/her/hers.

Kai-Wei Chang

@kaiwei_chang

Associate Professor @UCLAengineering/@UCLA. Area: #NLProc/#ML/#AI http://kwchang.net

Zhou Yu

@Zhou_Yu_AI

Founder of http://Arklex.ai, Associate Professor at Columbia. Making ai agent design and deployment easy, safe, and fast! Forbes 30 under 30.

Daniel Fried

@dan_fried

Assistant prof. @LTIatCMU @SCSatCMU. Working on NLP: LLM agents, language-to-code, applied pragmatics, grounding.

Wei Xu

@cocoweixu

CS professor @GeorgiaTech @gtcomputing @ICatGT @mlatgt. Evaluating & Improving LLMs (multilingual, reasoning, RL, multi-turn, privacy/safety, etc.)

Weijia Shi

@WeijiaShi2

@AnthropicAI @cornell_tech @uwnlp

Jordan Boyd-Graber

@boydgraber

Trivia Nerd, NLPer, Dad, Colorado native in Singapore Working on QA, negotiating/cooperating bots, AI explanations Exemplar for absent-minded professor

Quanquan Gu

@QuanquanGu

Founder of Geodesic Intelligence @Geodesiclab | Professor @UCLA | Opinions are my own

William Wang

@WilliamWangNLP

CEO & Founder, @AlphaDesignAI. We make http://ChipAgents.ai I'm also Mellichamp Chair Prof. at UCSB CS. PhD @ CMU SCS.

Robin Jia

@robinomial

Assistant Professor @CSatUSC | Previously Visiting Researcher @facebookai | Stanford CS PhD @StanfordNLP

Xin Eric Wang @ COLM 2026

@xwang_lk

Professor @ucsantabarbara. Head of Research @SimularAI. Director @ucsbcrml @UCSB_AI. Build the Science of AI Agents. AI for Humanity in the long run.

Yu Su

@ysu_nlp

co-founder @NeoCognition | prof. @osunlp | building towards abundance of specialized intelligence

Sebastian Gehrmann

@sebgehr

Head of Responsible AI, CTO office @Bloomberg. Formerly LLM evals @ Google / PhD @ Harvard. views my own

Nanyun (Violet) Peng

@VioletNPeng

Associated Professor@UCLA (leave), Scientist and manager@Google. AI and Infra, AI for science, AI creativity, event. (she/her/hers). Opinions are my own.

Yonatan Belinkov

@boknilev

Associate professor of computer science @TechnionLive.

Chenhao Tan

@ChenhaoTan

Professor @UChicagoCS @UChicago. Directing @ChicagoHAI, also part of @UChicagoCI. Email for Postdoc/PhD opportunities. https://chenhaot.com

Cas (Stephen Casper)

@StephenLCasper

Computer scientist working on AI safeguards, incidents, & gov research. Assistant professor @Kennedy_School @Harvard. https://stephencasper.com/

Ani Nenkova

@ani_nenkova

language technology

Jack Hessel

@jmhessel

Seattle bike lane enjoyer. Opinions my own.

Yizhong Wang

@yizhongwyz

Researcher at ByteDance Seed, Incoming Asst Prof @UTAustin. Agent training, agents for science discovery.

Zhijing Jin

@ZhijingJin

Prof @UofTCompSci. Founder @EuroSafeAI. Director @JinesisLab. Scientist@MPI_IS w/ @bschoelkopf. @CausalNLP, NLP4SocialGood @NLP4SG. Mentor&mentee @ACLMentorship

Alan Ritter

@alan_ritter

Computing professor at Georgia Tech - NLP, ML, AI

Lianhui Qin@COLM2026

@Lianhuiq

AI/ML faculty at UCSD CSE. I’m interested in building self-evolving AI agents in complex (embodied & scientific) environments, and latent diffusion LLMs.

Mark Yatskar

@yatskar

Assistant Professor at UPenn @PennEngineers. NLP/CV/Fairness. Phd @UWCSE, Formerly @allen_ai

Sean Ren

@xiangrenNLP

🍦Building @SaharaAI🍦| Professor @USCViterbi @nlp_usc | @MIT TR 35 , @ForbesUnder30 | Prev: @allen_ai, @Snapchat, @Stanford, @UofIllinois

Sharon Li

@SharonYixuanLi

Associate Professor @WisconsinCS. Building reliable intelligence. Prev: @Stanford @Cornell

Caiming Xiong

@CaimingXiong

Co-founder of @Recursive_SI. ex-SVP of Salesforce AI Research | ex-MetaMind (Opinions are personal.)

Wenting Zhao

@wzhao_nlp

reasoning & llms

Abhilasha Ravichander

@lasha_nlp

Tenure-track faculty @mpi_sws_ Formerly postdoc @uwnlp @allen_ai | PhD @SCSatCMU @LTIatCMU Research in NLP (#NLProc). Accepting PhD students/interns!

Peng Qi @ COLM

@qi2peng2

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

Scott Wen-tau Yih

@scottyih

Research Scientist at Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR)

Tao Yu

@taoyds

digital & physical agents @meta superintelligence, asst. prof. @xlangnlp lab | author of opencua, osworld, aguvis, spider, openagents, text2reward, instructor.

Jonathan Clark

@JonClarkSeattle

Research Scientist @ Gemini Multilinguality. Learning, Languages, Evals, C++. Previously MT@Microsoft and CMU. Opinions are my own.

Jessy Li

@jessyjli

Associate Professor @UTAustin @UT_Linguistics, computational linguistics and #NLProc

Georges Harik

@gharik

humans& co-founder, 7th employee google, co-created adwords online, co-created adsense targeting, worked on ai, gmail, calendar, bought android.

Alice Oh

@aliceoh

Professor of Computer Science, KAIST

Minjoon Seo

@seo_minjoon

Co-Founder & CEO at @config_inc