Lab
Current members
Alumni
PhD
2026
Alexander Wettig, PhD 2026, now at CursorThesis: Building Better Language Models with Data Curation
2025
Tianyu Gao, PhD 2025, now at Meta TBD, incoming assistant professor at UCSD CSEThesis: Enabling Language Models to Process Information at Scale
2025
Howard Chen (w/ Karthik Narasimhan), PhD 2025, now at EngramThesis: Memory Adaptation in Language Models for Long-Horizon and Continual Tasks
2025
Mengzhou Xia, PhD 2025, now at OpenAI, incoming assistant professor at CMU MLDThesis: Advancing the Pareto Frontier of Training Open Language Models
2025
Dan Friedman, PhD 2025, now at AppleThesis: Algorithmic Interpretability for Language Models
2024
Zexuan Zhong, PhD 2024, now at Meta TBD, first job: x.aiThesis: Language Models with Retrieval Augmentation and Conditional Computation
Postdoctoral researchers and visiting PhD students
2024-2026
Xi Ye, PLI postdoc 2024-2026, now assistant professor at University of Alberta
2025-2026
Xinyi Wang, PLI postdoc 2025-2026, now research scientist at Luma AI
2025-2026
Xingyu Fu, PLI postdoc 2025-2026, now at Meta
2024-2025
Yong Lin, PLI postdoc 2024-2025, now at Meta TBD, first job: Thinking Machines Lab
2024-2025
Catherine Chen, CV Starr Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-2025, now at Abridge
2023-2024
Tanya Goyal, PLI postdoc 2023-2024, now assistant professor at Cornell CS
2022-2024
Alexis Chevalier, visiting postdoc/PLI postdoc 2022-2024, now at Cohere
2023
Yu Meng, visiting PhD student 2023, now assistant professor at UVA CS
2020-2021
Jinhyuk Lee, visiting postdoc 2020-2021, now at Google
MSE and undergraduate students
2026
Wuwei Zhang, MSE 2026 → Snowflake
2025
Jiayi Geng, MSE 2025 → PhD student at CMU
2025
Colin Wang, MSE 2025 → PhD student at UC Berkeley
2024
Sabhya Chhabria, MSE 2024 → Databricks
2022-2024
Aatmik Gupta, undergraduate and MSE student 2022-2024 → Bridgewater
2021-2024
Howard Yen, undergraduate and MSE 2021-2024 → PhD student at Princeton
2023
Jane Pan, MSE 2023 → PhD student at NYU
2022
Huihan Li, MSE 2022 → PhD student at USC
2021
Chris Sciavolino, MSE 2021 → Jane Street
2024-2026
Joie Zhang, undergraduate student 2024-2026 → PhD student at University of Washington
2024-2025
Kevin Wang, undergraduate student 2024-2025 → OpenAI
2022-2024
Victoria Graf, undergraduate student 2022-2024 → PhD student at University of Washington
2023-2024
Saumya Malik, undergraduate student 2023-2024 → PhD student at University of Washington
2023-2024
Zachary Siegel, undergraduate student 2023-2024 → PhD student at MIT
2022-2023
Jiatong Yu, undergraduate 2022-2023 → MSE student at Princeton
2023
Zhiyuan Zeng, visiting undergrad, 2023 Summer → PhD student at University of Washington
2021-2022
Jacqueline He, undergraduate student 2021-2022 → PhD student at University of Washington
2022
Ziqing Huang, visiting undergraduate student from Tsinghua University 2022 → Master's student at Stanford University
2021-2022
Jenny Sheng, undergraduate student 2021-2022 → PhD student at Tsinghua University
2020-2021
Ben Dodge, undergraduate student, 2020-2021 → PhD student at Stanford
2020-2021
Manan Goenka, undergraduate student 2020-2021 → Microsoft
2021
Xingcheng Yao, visiting undergraduate 2021 Spring → PhD student at UCLA
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to the National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Schmidt DataX Fund, Princeton SEAS Innovation Funds, Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Intel, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Salesforce for generous support of our research. My students have been also supported by Apple (Mengzhou Xia), Bloomberg (Mengzhou Xia), Google (Dan Friedman), IBM (Tianyu Gao), and JP Morgan (Zexuan Zhong) - Thanks for the support!