People
People from UW
36 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at University of Washington. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only. See also University of Washington in the catalog.
Ali Farhadi
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; co-director of the RAIVN Lab, University of Washington
University of Washington professor co-directing the RAIVN Lab; former Ai2 CEO who advised on OLMo
Aylin Caliskan
Associate Professor, The Information School; Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (courtesy), University of Washington
University of Washington associate professor studying bias, safety, and societal impacts of AI
Byron Boots
Professor; Amazon Professor of Machine Learning; director of the UW Robot Learning Laboratory, University of Washington (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering)
Amazon Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington; co-founder and CEO of Overland AI
Carlos Guestrin
Professor, Computer Science; Fortinet Founders Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of XGBoost and LIME and co-founder of Turi
Christopher Clark
Senior research scientist, leading the open-ecosystem multimodal team, Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Senior research scientist at Ai2 leading the open multimodal team; co-first author of Molmo and Molmo2
Christopher Ré
Professor, Department of Computer Science (Stanford AI Lab, CRFM, Machine Learning Group), Stanford University
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of FlashAttention, Hyena and RedPajama; Together AI founder
David Wadden
Research scientist, working on post-training for Gemini, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini post-training; former Ai2 researcher on OLMo and Tülu
Dieter Fox
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; head of the RSE-Lab, University of Washington
UW Allen School professor who leads Ai2's Robotics team; started NVIDIA's robotics research lab in 2017
Emanuel Todorov
Research and development, Roboti LLC
Roboti LLC researcher whose lab built the MuJoCo physics engine; former UW and UC San Diego professor
Emily M. Bender
Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director, Computational Linguistics Laboratory, University of Washington
University of Washington linguistics professor; developer of the LinGO Grammar Matrix and data statements
Hannaneh Hajishirzi
Torode Family Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; leads the H2Lab, University of Washington
Torode Family Professor at the University of Washington; co-led Ai2's OLMo and Tülu open models
Jake VanderPlas
Company listed on Jake VanderPlas's GitHub profile, Google
Named author of JAX who has written several of its design proposals
Jeff Dean
Co-founder, Discovery Loop
Co-founder of Discovery Loop; former Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research
Jianfeng Gao
Technical Fellow & Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Microsoft Technical Fellow and CVP setting direction for AI models; co-founder of MSR's Deep Learning Group
Kristina Toutanova
Research scientist, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind and University of Washington affiliate faculty; co-author of BERT
Kyle Lo
Research scientist; co-lead of the OLMo project, Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Former Ai2 research scientist who co-led the OLMo project; last-listed author of the Dolma paper
Li Deng
Chief Scientist of AI, founder of the Deep Learning Technology Center, and Partner Research Manager (2000–2017), Microsoft and Microsoft Research
Former Chief Scientist of AI at Microsoft and founder of its Deep Learning Technology Center
Luke Zettlemoyer
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
University of Washington professor and Senior Research Director at Meta; co-author of RoBERTa and QLoRA
Maarten Sap
Assistant Professor, Language Technologies Institute (courtesy appointment in HCII), Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon assistant professor and part-time senior research scientist at Ai2; co-author of SOTOPIA
Manuvir Das
Operating Partner, Digital Infrastructure group, Stonepeak Partners
Stonepeak operating partner; as NVIDIA's Head of Enterprise Computing, launched NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Margaret Mitchell
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; first author of Model Cards for Model Reporting
Matt Deitke
AI researcher, leading a data pod, Meta
AI researcher at Meta; co-first author of Molmo and first author of ProcTHOR and Objaverse
Noah A. Smith
Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence; Charles and Lisa Simonyi Endowed Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies; Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
UW Vice Provost for AI and professor; Senior Director of NLP Research at Ai2, directing OLMo
Oren Etzioni
Adviser and board member, Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Founding CEO of Ai2 (2013–2022) and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington
Peter Mattson
Founder, President and board member, MLCommons
Founder and President of MLCommons and founding General Chair of MLPerf; senior staff engineer at Google
Ronen Eldan
Listed with an OpenAI affiliation on the November 2025 paper "Early science acceleration experiments with GPT-5", OpenAI
First author of TinyStories and co-author of Microsoft's Phi small language model reports
Saadia Gabriel
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA assistant professor studying factuality, intent, and harm in language; former NYU and MIT fellow
Sameer Singh
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
UC Irvine professor of computer science; co-author of LIME and CheckList; former Ai2 Allen Fellow
Swabha Swayamdipta
Gabilan Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi Computer Science; Associate Director, USC Center for AI and Society, University of Southern California
USC Gabilan Assistant Professor and Amazon Scholar; first author of Dataset Cartography
Tianqi Chen
Associate Professor, Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Started MLC LLM, a compiler-based engine for running language models on GPUs, phones, and browsers
Tim Dettmers
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Creator and maintainer of bitsandbytes; Assistant Professor at CMU and Research Scientist at Ai2
Valentina Pyatkin
Researcher working on LLM post-training for the Swiss AI Initiative, ETH AI Center
Researcher at the ETH AI Center working on LLM post-training; core contributor to Tülu 3
Vikash Kumar
Co-founder, CEO, Myolab.ai
Co-founder and CEO of Myolab.ai and CMU adjunct professor; lead creator of MyoSuite and RoboHive
Xiaodong He
Senior Vice President of JD Group (JD.COM), JD Group (JD.com)
Senior Vice President of JD Group; former head of Microsoft Research's Deep Learning Technology Center
Yejin Choi
Dieter Schwarz Foundation Professor of Computer Science; Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI, Stanford University
Stanford professor and HAI Senior Fellow; formerly at NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and Ai2
Yulia Tsvetkov
Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
University of Washington associate professor working on reliable, socially aware, and multilingual NLP
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