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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Cornell Tech at Cornell University, arXiv 's associate faculty director, and a researcher at ASAPP . I hold a B.Sc. from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, where I was advised by Luke Zettlemoyer .
I study natural language modeling and learning. My lab has worked on a diverse set of topics over the years, including learning from interactions and feedback, reinforcement learning for language acquisition, grounded and multimodal language modeling, and evaluation.
Our research is anchored in language modeling, natural language processing, and machine learning, but often reaches out to other areas, including robotics, computer vision, and cognitive science.
Our work has been recognized by an NSF CAREER award, paper awards, honorable mentions, and spotlight presentations at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, and IROS, as well as a TACL test-of-time award.
I post paper recommendations at RecNet (our paper recommendation network), am building a new academic community with COLM , and (very) occasionally (b)log .
What's new?
Oct 7, 2025: First day of COLM 2025 π¦
Oct 3-6, 2025: Talk @ IVADO Workshop on Autonomous LLM Agents, Montreal
Aug 15, 2025: Talk @ IVADO Bootcamp on Multi-Agent Interaction, Montreal
Jul 30, 2025: Artzi and Zettlemoyer 2013 receives a TACL Test-of-Time Award π
Apr 14, 2025: Talk @ the University of Pennsylvania
Nov 14, 2024: Omer's CoGen paper receives an EMNLP 2024 best paper award π
Oct 30, 2024: Talk @ Queen Mary University of London
Oct 7, 2024: First day of COLM 2024 π¦
Aug 16, 2024: Talk @ Wordplay workshop at ACL 2024
Aug 16, 2024: Talk @ SpLU-RoboNLP workshop at ACL 2024
Aug 12, 2024: Initial release of LM-class, an education resource for contemporary language modeling (broadly construed)
June 25, 2024: Attending and talking at the Simons Workshop on Understanding Higher-Level Intelligence from AI, Psychology, and Neuroscience Perspectives
May 3, 2024: Talk at MASC-SLL 2024
Dec 14, 2023: Starting to roll out RecNet, an experimental paper recommendation network.
Dec 7, 2023: Talk at Novel Ideas in Learning-to-Learn through Interaction Workshop @ EMNLP 2023
Oct 25, 2023: Talk at Georgia Tech
July 10, 2023: CB2 is out (play with our bot!) and gets an outstanding demo paper award at ACL 2023
Apr 1, 2023: Panel at the CMU LLM Seminar
Mar 23, 2023: Talk at MSR NYC
Mar 22, 2023: Talk at the NLP seminar series at the University of Pennsylvania
Mar 1, 2023: Talk at UCLA
Feb 3, 2023: Talk at the NLP Round Table at ARL
Feb 2, 2023: Talk at Stanford NLP Seminar
Dec 20, 2022: Anya Ji is a finalist for the CRA 2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
Dec 11, 2022: The KiloGram paper received the best long paper award at EMNLP
Dec 4, 2022: KiloGram, a new tangram-based resource to study language and perception, is out!
Dec 3, 2022: Workshop on Interactive Learning for NLP (InterNLP 2022) at NeurIPS 2022
Nov 15, 2022: Talk at the University of Washington NLP Seminar
Nov 14, 2022: π‘π»π¦ lilGym, a new RL benchmark, is out! πΊπ΅π©
Nov 14, 2022: Talk at the Allen Institute for AI
Nov 4, 2022: Talk at CMU LTI Colloquium
Oct 31, 2022: Talk at The Ohio State University CSE AI Seminar
Oct 24, 2022: Talk at the Microsoft Research Summit
Oct 24, 2022: Talk at TTIC Colloquium, Chicago
Aug 12, 2022: Talk at Berkeley Multi-Agent Learning Seminar
Nov 10, 2021: Tutorial on crowdsourcing for data collection at EMNLP 2021
Oct 5, 2021: Talk @ the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Aug 5, 2021: Talk @ Workshop on Interactive Learning for Natural Language Processing (InterNLP) at ACL 2021
Jun 20, 2021: Tutorial on vision-and-language research at CVPR 2021
Dec 11, 2020: Commented on NLP+robotics research for a Knowable Magazine article
Dec 9, 2020: Posted my remote teaching and talk recording setup
Nov 19, 2020: Talk @ Third International Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding at EMNLP 2020
Nov 19, 2020: Talk @ Interactive Executable Semantic Parsing Workshop at EMNLP 2020
Nov 13, 2020: Natural Language, Dialog and Speech Symposium (NDS2020) Symposium
Aug 20, 2020: Talk @ University of Edinburgh
July 18, 2020: Talk @ Language in Reinforcement Learning Workshop at ICML 2020
July 18, 2020: Talk @ Workshop on Learning in Artificial Open Worlds at ICML 2020
July 15, 2020: Talk @ Amazon AI Virtual Speaker Series
July 9, 2020: Talk @ Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research at ACL 2020
Feb 7, 2020: Talk @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feb 6, 2020: Talk @ Brown University
Jan 27, 2020: Talk @ Columbia University
Jan 16, 2020: Talk @ Amazon NYC
Dec 6, 2019: Talk @ Semantic Machines, Microsoft
Dec 6, 2019: Talk @ University of California, Berkeley
Dec 5, 2019: Talk @ Stanford University
Dec 3, 2019: Talk @ University of Pennsylvania
Nov 15, 2019: Talk @ University of Texas, Austin
Nov 12, 2019: Microsoft Research (NYC)
Oct 22, 2019: Talk @ University of Washington
Oct 21, 2019: Talk @ Microsoft Research (Redmond)
Jun 21, 2019: Talk @ Google AI
Jun 17, 2019: Talk @ Visual Question Answering Workshop (CVPR workshop)
Jun 6, 2019: Talk @ Shortcomings in Vision and Language (NAACL workshop)
Jan 28, 2019: Talk @ Games and Simulations for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI Workshop)
For code and data, please see our GitHub page and the links
in the publication list . A funding and engagement disclosure is available here .
Lab
Alumni
This web page lists only students mentored for extensive periods on research projects, and position after graduation.
PhDs
Noriyuki Kojima β Co-Founder and CEO of Kotoba Technologies, Inc.
Thesis: Exploring Grounded Language Systems: Reasoning and Interactive Learning
Alane Suhr β Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley
Thesis: Reasoning and Learning in Natural Language Systems; 2022
Valts Blukis β Research Scientist at Nvidia Robotics Research Lab
Thesis: Generalizable Learning for Natural Language Instruction Following on Physical Robots; 2021
Dipendra Misra β Researcher at Microsoft Research
Thesis: Scalable and Interpretable
Approaches for Learning to Follow Natural Language Instructions; 2019
Undergraduates and Interns
Anya Ji (RA; 2024)
Anna Effenberger (undergraduate; 2021)
Tianyi Zhang (undergraduate; 2019) β Stanford PhD
Howard Chen (RA; 2020) β Princeton PhD
Stephanie Zhou (undergraduate; 2018) β UMD PhD
Claudia Yan (undergraduate, CUNY; 2018) β IBM
Teaching
Prior Teaching
Resources
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