UC Santa Barbara NLP Group

Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.

Shane Gu

@shaneguML

Gemini/Veo Thinking, Senior Staff AE @GoogleDeepMind. 🇯🇵-born 🇨🇳🇨🇦. ex: Gemini 1.5-3, GPT-4 @OpenAI, Google Robotics (JP: @shanegJP). Personal opinions.

Luke Zettlemoyer

@LukeZettlemoyer

Diyi Yang

@Diyi_Yang

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

Danqi Chen

@danqi_chen

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

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.

Sewon Min

@sewon__min

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

Songlin Yang

@SonglinYang4

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

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

Eunsol Choi

@eunsolc

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

Hanna Hajishirzi

@HannaHajishirzi

Sr. Director of AI at @allen_ai, Prof at @uw_cse, lead OLMo, Tulu

Niloofar

@niloofar_mire

Technical staff @humansand, incoming asst. prof @LTIatCMU @CMU_EPP, ex RS in @AIatMeta, postdoc @uwcse, Ph.D. @ucsd_cse, former @MSFTResearch -Privacy, ML, NLP

Quanquan Gu

@QuanquanGu

Professor @UCLA, Pretraining and Scaling at ByteDance Seed | Recent work: Seed2.0, SeedFold | Opinions are my own

Sameer Singh

@sameer_

Cofounder/CTO @SpiffyAI and Prof at @UCIrvine, works on reliable LLMs, explanations for AI+ML, safety for NLP, and debugging/evaluation.

Daniel Fried

@dan_fried

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

Kai-Wei Chang

@kaiwei_chang

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

Weijia Shi

@WeijiaShi2

PhD student @uwnlp | Prev @allen_ai @MetaAI @CS_UCLA | 🏠 http://weijiashi.notion.site

Yu Su

@ysu_nlp

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

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.

Robin Jia

@robinomial

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

Jordan Boyd-Graber

@boydgraber

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

Wei Xu

@cocoweixu

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

Xin Eric Wang (hiring postdoc)

@xwang_lk

Professor @ucsantabarbara. Head of Research @SimularAI. Director @ucsbcrml @ucsbNLP. #Multimodal #AgenticAI. AI for Humanity in the long run.

William Wang

@WilliamWangNLP

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

Sebastian Gehrmann

@sebgehr

Making AI trustworthy as Head of Responsible AI in the CTOs office @Bloomberg. Formerly LLMs @ Google Brain / PhD @ Harvard. views my own

Violet Peng

@VioletNPeng

Associated Professor@UCLA-CS. Research NLP, AI creativity, controllable generation, model evaluation, computational journalism, event. (she/her/hers)

Yonatan Belinkov

@boknilev

Associate professor of computer science @TechnionLive; visiting scholar @KempnerInst 2025-2026.

Jack Hessel

@jmhessel

@AnthropicAI. Seattle bike lane enjoyer. Opinions my own.

Chenhao Tan

@ChenhaoTan

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

Wenting Zhao

@wzhao_nlp

reasoning & llms

Cas (Stephen Casper)

@StephenLCasper

AI safeguards & gov. research. PhD student @MIT_CSAIL (mnr. Public Policy), and Fellow at @BKCHarvard. Fmr. @AISecurityInst. https://stephencasper.com/

Yizhong Wang

@yizhongwyz

Researching AI for an infinite-sum future. RS@ByteDance Seed, incoming AP@UT Austin. Formerly @uwcse @allen_ai @meta @microsoft

Georges Harik

@gharik

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

Sharon Li

@SharonYixuanLi

Associate Professor @WisconsinCS. Making AI reliable for the open world. Program Chairing #ICML2026

Ani Nenkova

@ani_nenkova

language technology

Sean Ren

@xiangrenNLP

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

Caiming Xiong

@CaimingXiong

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

Zhijing Jin

@ZhijingJin

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

Lianhui Qin

@Lianhuiq

Assistant Professor at UCSD CSE. NLP, ML, AI. I’m recruiting PhD students.

Alan Ritter

@alan_ritter

Computing professor at Georgia Tech - natural language processing, language models, machine learning

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

@qi2peng2

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

Mark Yatskar

@yatskar

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

Scott Wen-tau Yih

@scottyih

Research Scientist at Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR)

Jessy Li

@jessyjli

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

Jonathan Clark

@JonClarkSeattle

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

Tao Yu

@taoyds

@XLangNLP lab, asst. prof. @HKUniversity. author of OpenCUA, OSWorld, Aguvis, Spider, OpenAgents, Text2Reward, Instructor.

Alice Oh

@aliceoh

Professor of Computer Science, KAIST

Jiao Sun

@sunjiao123sun_

Supercharging Gemini for Web Dev 🚀@GoogleDeepMind \n\n NLP PhD @ USC, Amazon ML Fellow \n\n ex-{Google Brain, Alexa AI} nlper, IIIS Tsinghua-Ren