Principal Investigator

Graduate Students

My research goal is to advance the way we interact with computers, taking inspiration from how humans communicate and collaborate. In particular, I’m interested in making computers capable of handling ambiguous inputs and specifications by leveraging prior knowledge, context and interaction.

Rose Wang

My research interests are in unsupervised learning and multiagent systems.

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 social cognition; how we can build machines that interact with, learn from and communicate with others.

Eric Zelikman

I am excited about how we can build models that are able to reason better by learning to model the world and leverage structural understanding, such as in multi-step planning, intermediate rationales, object-centric visual representations, or theory of mind and social reasoning.

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.

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.

Lauren Gillespie

My research aims to apply cutting-edge ML technologies to climate change-related ecological problems in concert with developing better ML methods for working with complex ecological and genomic data.

Alumni

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