Principal Investigator

Graduate Students

Ben Prystawski

I am interested in understanding how language enables humans to work together effectively. My current research focuses on indirect language use and teaching.

Kanishk Gandhi

I am interested in building machines that understand people. I explore topics in reasoning, discovery and interaction.

Michael Li

I'm broadly interested in understanding large language models using tools from probabilistic machine learning.

Joy He-Yueya

My research interests are in reinforcement learning and optimal experimental design.

Daniel Wurgaft

I am primarily interested in understanding meta-learning and in-context learning in humans and language models. In language models, I work on developing a theoretical understanding of training dynamics and generalization. In humans, I aim to use insights gained from studying language models, as well as behavioral experiments, to inform theories of learning throughout development, domain generality, and reasoning.

Jason Goldberg

I work on the alignment problem, and reasoning, in artificial intelligence. Prior to reading for my PhD in computer science, I had a nearly 20-year prior career as a lawyer. My work sometimes explores methodologies for alignment inspired by legal mechanisms, and the capacity for models to engage in law-like case-based reasoning.

Steven Feng

My research aims to enhance machine understanding and generation of human language and vision. This includes exploring methods to improve the controllability and reasoning of language and visual models, and investigating cognitive strategies to align human and machine learning.

Lab affiliates

Megha Srivastava

I'm interested in developing methods for more reliable forms of human-AI interaction, particularly in domains such as education, as well as exploring how users develop "trust" in artificial agents over time.

Joy Hsu

I'm interested in visual reasoning, and creating visual understanding models that are generalists.

Ali Malik

My research interests are in probabilistic reasoning, algorithms, and building intelligent systems that help humans learn.

Alumni

Gabriel Poesia (graduate student in Computer Science) -- Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Michigan

Eric Zelikman (graduate student in Computer Science) -- Founder, Humans&

Jan-Philipp Franken (post-doc) -- Google Deepmind

Alex Tamkin (graduate student in Computer Science) -- Anthropic

Jesse Mu (graduate student in Computer Science) -- Anthropic

Julia White (graduate student in Electrical Engineering) -- Samsung Research

Mike Wu (graduate student in Computer Science) -- DeFi startup

Erin Bennett (graduate student in Psychology)

Judy Fan (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford

Robert Hawkins (graduate student in Psychology) -- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford

Michael Henry Tessler (graduate student in Psychology) -- Google Deepmind

Desmond Ong (graduate student in Psychology) -- Assistant Professor of Psychology at UT Austin

Judith Degen (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford

Leon Bergen (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UCSD

Greg Scontras (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Irvine

Justine Kao (graduate student in Psychology) -- Siri Machine Learning Data Scientist at Apple

Andreas Stuhlmüller (graduate student and post-doc) -- Founder of Ought

Long Ouyang (graduate student and post-doc) -- OpenAI

Daniel Hawthorne (graduate student in Psychology) -- Co-founder and CTO at Datawallet

Daniel Ly (post-doc) -- Senior Algorithms and Machine Learning Engineer at Seismic

Siddharth Narayanaswamy (post-doc) -- Senior Researcher at Oxford

Daniel Lassiter (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford

Joseph Austerweil (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wisconsin, Madison

Thomas Icard (graduate student in Philosophy) -- Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stanford