New York University

Amanda Askell is a philosopher and AI alignment researcher at Anthropic. Her personal site says she previously worked as a research scientist on the policy team at OpenAI.

Research scientist at Anthropic who leads the Societal Impacts team and works on AI evaluation, alignment, and societal impacts.

Assistant professor at the University of Chicago and head of the Conceptualization Lab, working on language generation, communication, and large language models.

Utku Evci is a researcher at Google. His public Google Research profile describes work on making neural network training faster and more efficient, with public materials centered on sparsity, transfer learning, and machine intelligence.

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic working on reinforcement learning for LLMs; previously at Meta FAIR and the Kempner Institute at Harvard, with a Ph.D. from NYU and undergraduate study at Yale.

Yacine Jernite leads the ML and Society team at Hugging Face. His personal site says he works on ML systems governance at the intersection of regulatory and technical tools, with a focus on NLP models, data curation, documentation, and governance, and that he completed a Ph.D. in computer science at New York University under David Sontag.

TTIC and William Merrill's homepage describe him as currently at the Allen Institute for AI and incoming to TTIC in Fall 2026 after a PhD from New York University. Public profile pages describe research spanning transformer expressivity, formal language theory, computational linguistics, and language models.

William Merrill is a Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI and an incoming assistant professor at TTIC. His public faculty profile describes research on the computational power and limits of transformers, computational linguistics, and deep learning theory.

Yuling Gu's NYU and personal pages describe her as a PhD student at NYU Center for Data Science who previously worked at Ai2 and has contributed to OLMo and OLMES.

Jiacheng Liu is a researcher at Ai2 whose work focuses on improving the capabilities and understanding of language models. His public homepage says he is currently a PhD student at New York University and has previously spent time at Princeton and Google Research.

Heng Ji is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and founding director of the Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conversational Experiences (AICE). Her research focuses on natural language processing, information extraction, knowledge-enhanced large language models, and vision-language models.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at the University of Chicago whose public faculty bio highlights research spanning dialogue and text generation, including nucleus sampling.

Amanda Askell

Deep Ganguli

Ari Holtzman

Utku Evci

David Brandfonbrener

Yacine Jernite

William Merrill

Will Merrill

Yuling Gu

Jiacheng Liu

Heng Ji

Ari Holtzman