Current Members

Gabriel Sarch
PLI postdoc

Chengshuai Shi
PLI postdoc

Xinyi Wang
PLI postdoc

Xi Ye
PLI postdoc

Adithya Bhaskar
PhD student

Jeff Cheng
PhD student

Lucy He
PhD student (w/ Peter Henderson)

Yoonsang Lee
PhD student

Zhuorui Ye
PhD student (w/ Zhuang Liu)

Howard Yen
PhD student

Alumni

PhD

• Alexander Wettig, PhD 2026, now at Cursor
  Thesis: Building Better Language Models with Data Curation
• Tianyu Gao, PhD 2025, now at Meta TBD, incoming assistant professor at UCSD CSE
  Thesis: Enabling Language Models to Process Information at Scale
• Howard Chen (w/ Karthik Narasimhan), PhD 2025, now at a stealth startup
  Thesis: Memory Adaptation in Language Models for Long-Horizon and Continual Tasks
• Mengzhou Xia, PhD 2025, now at OpenAI, incoming assistant professor at CMU MLD
  Thesis: Advancing the Pareto Frontier of Training Open Language Models
• Dan Friedman, PhD 2025, now at Apple
  Thesis: Algorithmic Interpretability for Language Models
• Zexuan Zhong, PhD 2024, now at Meta TBD
  Thesis: Language Models with Retrieval Augmentation and Conditional Computation

Postdoctoral researchers and visiting PhD students

• Xingyu Fu, PLI postdoc 2025-2026, now at Meta
• Yong Lin, PLI postdoc 2025-2026, now at Thinking Machines Lab
• Catherine Chen, CV Starr Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-2025, now at Abridge
• Tanya Goyal, PLI postdoc 2023-2024, now assistant professor at Cornell CS
• Alexis Chevalier, visiting postdoc/PLI postdoc 2022-2024, now at Cohere
• Yu Meng, visiting PhD student 2023, now assistant professor at UVA CS
• Jinhyuk Lee, visiting postdoc 2020-2021, now at Google

MSE and undergraduate students

• Wuwei Zhang, MSE 2026 → Snowflake
• Jiayi Geng, MSE 2025 → PhD student at CMU
• Colin Wang, MSE 2025 → PhD student at UC Berkeley
• Sabhya Chhabria, MSE 2024 → Databricks
• Aatmik Gupta, undergraduate and MSE student 2022-2024 → Bridgewater
• Howard Yen, undergraduate and MSE 2021-2024 → PhD student at Princeton
• Jane Pan, MSE 2023 → PhD student at NYU
• Huihan Li, MSE 2022 → PhD student at USC
• Chris Sciavolino, MSE 2021 → Jane Street
• Joie Zhang, undergraduate student 2024-2026 → PhD student at University of Washington
• Kevin Wang, undergraduate student 2024-2025 → OpenAI
• Victoria Graf, undergraduate student 2022-2024 → PhD student at University of Washington
• Saumya Malik, undergraduate student 2023-2024 → PhD student at University of Washington
• Zachary Siegel, undergraduate student 2023-2024 → PhD student at MIT
• Jiatong Yu, undergraduate 2022-2023 → MSE student at Princeton
• Zhiyuan Zeng, visiting undergrad, 2023 Summer → PhD student at University of Washington
• Jacquline He, undergraduate student 2021-2022 → PhD student at University of Washington
• Ziqing Huang, visiting undergraduate student from Tsinghua University 2022 → Master's student at Stanford University
• Jenny Sheng, undergraduate student 2021-2022 → PhD student at Tsinghua University
• Ben Dodge, undergraduate student, 2020-2021 → PhD student at Stanford
• Manan Goenka, undergraduate student 2020-2021 → Microsoft
• 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) through their fellowship programs - Thanks for the support!