People
People at Carnegie Mellon University
23 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Carnegie Mellon University; 12 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Albert Gu
Assistant Professor, Machine Learning Department; leads the Goomba Lab
Co-author of Mamba and first author of S4; CMU assistant professor and Cartesia co-founder
Graham Neubig
Associate Professor, Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon associate professor and Chief Scientist at OpenHands; co-author of the OpenHands paper
Jun-Yan Zhu
Michael B. Donohue Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics
CMU associate professor and Nunchux AI co-founder; first author of CycleGAN and co-author of pix2pix
Maarten Sap
Assistant Professor, Language Technologies Institute (courtesy appointment in HCII)
Carnegie Mellon assistant professor and part-time senior research scientist at Ai2; co-author of SOTOPIA
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
UPMC Professor of Computer Science, Machine Learning Department
UPMC Professor of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department; co-author of dropout
Shinji Watanabe
Associate Professor
Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University; first author of the ESPnet speech processing toolkit
Shreya Shankar
Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department (from July 2026); Assistant Professor from July 2027
Computer science researcher who built DocETL at UC Berkeley; incoming Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon
Tianqi Chen
Associate Professor, Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department
Started MLC LLM, a compiler-based engine for running language models on GPUs, phones, and browsers
Tim Dettmers
Assistant Professor
Creator and maintainer of bitsandbytes; Assistant Professor at CMU and Research Scientist at Ai2
Vikash Kumar
Adjunct Professor, CMU Robotics Institute
Co-founder and CEO of Myolab.ai and CMU adjunct professor; lead creator of MyoSuite and RoboHive
Yulia Tsvetkov
Adjunct Professor, Language Technologies Institute (previously Assistant Professor)
University of Washington associate professor working on reliable, socially aware, and multilingual NLP
Zico Kolter
Professor and Department Head, Machine Learning Department
Head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department; chairs OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee
Alex Smola
Full Professor (2013–2017) (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; former VP at AWS
Alexei A. Efros
Faculty, Robotics Institute (a decade, before Berkeley) (earlier role)
Howard Friesen Professor in UC Berkeley EECS and member of BAIR; co-author of pix2pix and CycleGAN
Carlos Guestrin
Finmeccanica Associate Professor (earlier role)
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of XGBoost and LIME and co-founder of Turi
Christopher Manning
Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics Program (1994–96) (earlier role)
Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science; co-author of GloVe and the Stanza NLP library
Geoffrey Hinton
Assistant Professor then Associate Professor of Computer Science (1982–1987) (earlier role)
2024 Nobel laureate in Physics; University of Toronto emeritus professor and former Google Vice President
Jiatong Shi
PhD student in WAVLab (2019–2025) (earlier role)
First author of the VERSA speech and audio evaluation toolkit; former PhD student in CMU's WAVLab
Kai-Fu Lee
Assistant Professor; earned a PhD there in 1988 with the Sphinx thesis (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of 01.AI; developed CMU's Sphinx speech recognizer; earlier at Apple, Microsoft and Google
Karen Livescu
Visiting faculty (2023–2024) (earlier role)
Professor at TTI-Chicago working on speech and language processing; former MIT EECS post-doctoral lecturer
Marc Raibert
Faculty member (earlier role)
Founder of Boston Dynamics and executive director of the Robotics and AI Institute
Peter Lee
Professor and head of the computer science department (1987–2010) (earlier role)
President of Microsoft Science; previously led Microsoft Research's worldwide laboratories
Zhilin Yang
PhD student, School of Computer Science (PhD 2019, advised by Ruslan Salakhutdinov and William W. Cohen) (earlier role)
Co-first author of XLNet and Transformer-XL; earlier worked at Google Brain and Meta AI
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