Danqi Chen

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Princeton NLP Group
Princeton Language and Intelligence

Email: danqic@cs.princeton.edu
Office: Computer Science 412




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I am an associate professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and I co-lead the Princeton NLP Group. I am also an associate director of Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI). Previously, I was a visiting scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) in Seattle, working with Luke Zettlemoyer. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2018, where I was advised by Christopher Manning and worked in the Stanford NLP Group. Before that, I was an undergraduate student in the Special Pilot CS Class supervised by Andrew Yao at Tsinghua University.

My research explores the full life cycle of language models—how we build, align, and understand them—with a focus on developing methods that democratize their creation and deployment.

I am currently on sabbatical leave from Princeton University, working as a member of technical staff at Thinking Machines Lab.

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Last update: October 2025