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Cornell University

University lab · Research lab · Ithaca, New York

Cornell University is a privately endowed research university whose main campus is in Ithaca, New York; its charter was signed into law in 1865. Its AI-related research groups include the Kuleshov Group at Cornell Tech, which works on machine learning and generative models, and the Zhang Research Group in electrical and computer engineering, which studies hardware specialization for machine learning.147Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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Key facts

Legal name
Cornell University2
Ownership (separate from openness)
Nonprofit

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Legal form
Organization recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3); the IRS extract classifies it as a corporation with school public-charity status (170(b)(1)(A)(ii)).23
Headquarters
Ithaca, New York12
Founded
18651
Sectors
Research

What is and isn’t public

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This catalog assesses openness per artifact and has no Cornell artifact record yet. The MDLM and HeuriGym repositories maintained by Cornell research groups are published under the Apache License 2.0.69Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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Notable documented facts

  • Cornell describes itself as a privately endowed research university, a partner of the State University of New York, and the federal land-grant institution in New York State.1
  • The Kuleshov Group at Cornell Tech describes itself as a research group focused on machine learning, generative models, and AI for science. Its GitHub organization hosts the code for MDLM, a masked diffusion language model presented at NeurIPS 2024, under the Apache License 2.0.456
  • The Zhang Research Group, headed by a professor in Cornell's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, publishes on high-level synthesis, hardware specialization for machine learning, and programming models for software-defined FPGAs. Its GitHub organization publishes HeuriGym, a benchmark for evaluating how well large language models generate and refine heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems, under the Apache License 2.0.789

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What this catalog does not know

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  • Products: none documented in this record.
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U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: U.S. nonprofit or lab

The IRS exempt-organization extract for New York lists Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, as a 501(c)(3) corporation with school status. Cornell's about page places its main campus in Ithaca.231

Assessed Oct 1, 2026

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Sources

  1. 1.
    About | Cornell University (external site: cornell.edu)

    Cornell University · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  2. 2.
    Exempt Organizations Business Master File Extract - New York (eo_ny.csv) (external site: irs.gov)

    Internal Revenue Service · Filing · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  3. 3.
    Exempt Organization Business Master File Extract information sheet (external site: irs.gov)

    Internal Revenue Service · Documentation · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  4. 4.
    Kuleshov Group @ Cornell Tech (GitHub organization) (external site: github.com)

    Kuleshov Group, Cornell Tech · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  5. 5.
    kuleshov-group/mdlm (GitHub repository and README) (external site: github.com)

    Kuleshov Group, Cornell Tech · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  6. 6.
    MDLM LICENSE (Apache License 2.0) (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)

    Kuleshov Group, Cornell Tech · License · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  7. 7.
    Zhang Research Group (external site: zhang.ece.cornell.edu)

    Zhang Research Group, Cornell University · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  8. 8.
    cornell-zhang/heurigym (GitHub repository and README) (external site: github.com)

    Cornell Zhang Research Group · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  9. 9.
    HeuriGym LICENSE (Apache License 2.0) (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)

    Cornell Zhang Research Group · License · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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