Researchers in Noah’s ARK

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Current Members

	Orevaoghene Ahia, UW Ph.D. student
	Victoria Ebert, UW Ph.D. student
	Gonçalo Faria, UW Ph.D. student
	Valentin Hofmann, AI2/UW postdoc
	Phillip Keung, UW Ph.D. student
	Lucy Li, UW postdoc
	Alisa Liu, UW Ph.D. student
	Kyle Lo, UW Ph.D. student
	Ian Magnusson, UW Ph.D. student
	Rahul Nadkarni, UW Ph.D. student
	Luiza Pozzobon, UW Ph.D. student
	Emily Reif, UW Ph.D. student
	Weijia Shi, UW Ph.D. student
	Nazif Can Tamer, UW postdoc
	Guang Yang, UW Ph.D. student
	Noah Smith, UW professor
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Ph.D. Alumni

	Yushi Hu, Ph.D. 2025, UW (Towards Multimodal Interactive Intelligence). He is a research scientist at Meta.
	Yizhong Wang, Ph.D. 2025, UW (Scalable Data Paradigms for Steering General-Purpose Language Models). He is a research scientist at ByteDance and assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
	Nikita Haduong, Ph.D. 2025, UW (Methods Towards Improving Experimental Approaches in Capturing Real-World Human-AI Perceptions and Interactions). She is a research scientist at Wizards of the Coast.
	Sofia Serrano, Ph.D. 2024, UW (Experiment Design for Hypotheses About How NLP Models Work). She is an assistant professor at Lafayette College.
	Suchin Gururangan, Ph.D. 2024, UW (Data-Centric Methods for Decentralizing Large Language Models). He is a research scientist at Anthropic.
	Jungo Kasai, Ph.D. 2023, UW (Towards Efficient, Customizable, and Communal Natural Language Processing). He is co-founder/CTO of Kotoba and an assistant professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.
	Ofir Press, Ph.D. 2023, UW (Complementing Scale: Novel Guidance Methods for Improving Language Models). He is a postdoc at Princeton.
	Tal August, Ph.D. 2022, UW (Language as Design: Adapting Language to Different Online Audiences). He is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
	Kelvin Luu, Ph.D. 2022, UW (Investigating Natural Language Interactions in Communities). He is a research scientist at Figma.
	Hao Peng, Ph.D. 2022, UW (Towards Efficient and Generalizable Natural Language Processing). He is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
	Phoebe Mulcaire, Ph.D. 2022, UW (Crosslingual Sharing for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing). She is a research scientist at Duolingo.
	Lucy Lin, Ph.D. 2021, UW (Semantic Comparisons for Natural Language Processing Applications). She is a research scientist at Spotify.
	Maarten Sap, Ph.D. 2021, UW (Positive AI with Social Commonsense Models). He is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
	Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D. 2021, UW (Text Generation and Evaluation for Human-Machine Collaborative Writing). She is a research scientist at Google.
	Jesse Dodge, Ph.D. 2020, CMU (Towards Efficient and Reproducible Natural Language Processing). He is a research scientist at Meta.
	Dallas Card, Ph.D. 2019, CMU (Accelerating Text-as-Data Research in Computational Social Science). He is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
	Swabha Swayamdipta, Ph.D. 2019, CMU (Syntactic Inductive Biases for Natural Language Processing). She is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California.
	Sam Thomson, Ph.D. 2019, CMU (Encoding and Decoding Graph Representations of Natural Language). He is a research scientist at Semantic Machines.
	Jeffrey Flanigan, Ph.D. 2018, CMU (Parsing and Generation for the Abstract Meaning Representation). He is an assistant professor at the University of California Santa Cruz.
	Lingpeng Kong, Ph.D. 2017, CMU (Neural Representation Learning in Linguistic Structured Prediction). He is an assistant professor at Hong Kong University.
	Yanchuan Sim, Ph.D. 2016, CMU (Text as Strategic Choice). He is a co-founder of Bot M.D.
	Waleed Ammar, Ph.D. 2016, CMU (Towards a Universal Analyzer of Natural Languages). He is a research scientist at Google.
	David Bamman, Ph.D. 2015, CMU (People-Centric Natural Language Processing). He is an associate professor at the University of California Berkeley.
	Dani Yogatama, Ph.D. 2015, CMU (Sparse Models of Natural Language Text). He is an associate professor at the University of Southern California and co-founder/CEO of Reka.
	Brendan O'Connor, Ph.D. 2014, CMU (Statistical Text Analysis for Social Science). He is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
	Nathan Schneider, Ph.D. 2014, CMU (Lexical Semantic Analysis in Natural Language Text). He is an associate professor at Georgetown University.
	Tae Yano, Ph.D. 2013, CMU (Text as Actuator: Text-Driven Response Modeling and Prediction in Politics). She is a research scientist at Expedia.
	Kevin Gimpel, Ph.D. 2012, CMU (Discriminative Feature-Rich Modeling for Syntax-Based Machine Translation). He is VP of research at Quillbot and formerly an assistant professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.
	André Martins, Ph.D. 2012, CMU (The Geometry of Constrained Structured Prediction: Applications to Inference and Learning of Natural Language Syntax). He is head of research at Unbabel and associate professor at the University of Lisbon.
	Dipanjan Das, Ph.D. 2012, CMU (Semi-Supervised and Latent-Variable Models of Natural Language Semantics). He is a research scientist at Google.
	Shay Cohen, Ph.D. 2011, CMU (Computational Learning of Probabilistic Grammars in the Unsupervised Setting). He is a reader (associate professor equivalent) at the University of Edinburgh.
	Michael Heilman, Ph.D. 2011, CMU (Automatic Factual Question Generation from Text). He is a data scientist at Civis Analytics.

Postdoctoral Alumni

	Yanai Elazar, assistant professor at Bar Ilan University, AI2/UW 2022–25. Now: .
	Hila Gonen, assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, UW 2021–25. Now: .
	Sachin Kumar, 2023–24, AI2/UW. Now: assistant professor at Ohio State University.
	Wenya Wang, 2021–23, UW. Now: assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University.
	Tao Yu, 2021–22, UW. Now: assistant professor at Hong Kong University.
	Ana Marasović, 2019–22, AI2/UW. Now: assistant professor at the University of Utah.
	Sarah Dreier, 2019–21, UW. Now: assistant professor at the University of New Mexico.
	Nikos Pappas, 2019–21, UW. Now: research scientist at Amazon.
	Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, 2019–21, UW. Now: research scientist at Amazon.
	Rachel Rudinger, 2019–20, AI2/UW. Now: assistant professor at the University of Maryland.
	Emily Gade, 2018–19, UW. Now: assistant professor at Emory University.
	Gabi Stanovsky, 2018–20, AI2/UW. Now: faculty at Hebrew University.
	Roy Schwartz, 2016–19, UW/AI2. Now: faculty at Hebrew University.
	Yangfeng Ji, 2016–18, UW. Now: assistant professor at the University of Virginia.
	Chenhao Tan, 2016–17, UW. Now: assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
	Fei Liu, 2013–15, CMU. Now: associate professor at Emory University.
	Chris Dyer, 2010–12, CMU. Now: research scientist at DeepMind and formerly assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
	Behrang Mohit, 2010–12, CMU-Q. Now: research scientist at Apple.