Lianhui Qin@COLM2026

Yejin Choi

@YejinChoinka

professor at Stanford, researcher at NVIDIA, adventurer at heart

Sebastian Ruder

@seb_ruder

Research Scientist @AIatMeta MSL • Ex @Cohere @GoogleDeepMind

Shane Gu

@shaneguML

Sr. Staff RS GenAI @GoogleDeepMind. 🇯🇵-born 🇨🇳🇨🇦. ex: Omni Thinking, Gemini 1.5-3, GPT-4 @OpenAI, GoogBrain Robotics (JP: @shanegJP). Personal opinions.

Tim Dettmers

@Tim_Dettmers

Creator of bitsandbytes. Professor @CarnegieMellon and Research Scientist @allen_ai . I blog about deep learning and PhD life at http://timdettmers.com.

Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.

Luke Zettlemoyer

@LukeZettlemoyer

Graham Neubig

@gneubig

Associate professor @LTIatCMU. Co-founder/chief scientist @OpenHandsDev. I mostly work on modeling language.

Sander Dieleman

@sedielem

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind (WaveNet, Nano Banana, Gemini Omni). I tweet about ML, music, generative models (personal account).

Tri Dao

@tri_dao

Asst. Prof @PrincetonCS, Chief Scientist @togethercompute. Machine learning & systems.

Yisong Yue

@yisongyue

AI Professor @Caltech (@YueLabCaltech)

Charles Sutton

@RandomlyWalking

Research scientist @GoogleAI / Previously academic @InfAtEd / Deep learning to help people write code. / @chas@sigmoid.social / ❤️s:🐱🐶☕️🍕

Diyi Yang

@Diyi_Yang

Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab Part time @humansand LLMs for Humans

Matthew Johnson

@SingularMattrix

Researcher at Google Brain. I work on JAX (https://github.com/google/jax).

Danqi Chen @COLM 2026

@danqi_chen

Associate professor @princetonPLI @PrincetonCS Previously: @thinkymachines @facebookai, @stanfordnlp, @Tsinghua_Uni

Eric Wallace

@Eric_Wallace_

research @openai

Jason Weston

@jaseweston

Senior Director & RS @Meta + Visiting Prof NYU | OG in LLMs | Pretrain+Finetune in 2008+ | 157k+ citations | Current: Self-Improving & Co-Improving AI

Sewon Min

@sewon__min

Assistant professor @Berkeley_EECS @berkeley_ai || Research scientist at @allen_ai || PhD from @uwcse @uwnlp

Yoav Artzi

@yoavartzi

Research/prof @cs_cornell + @cornell_tech🚡 / http://nlp.cornell.edu / researcher @GoogleDeepMind / building @COLM_conf / ex @arxiv

Rowan Zellers

@rown

multimodal @thinkymachines. I also like to climb rocks and throw pottery. http://rowanzellers.com (he/him)

Omar Khattab

@lateinteraction

asst professor @MIT CSAIL @nlp_mit. http://ColBERT.ai, http://DSPy.ai (@DSPyOSS), GEPA, RLMs, Pedagogical RL

Tom Goldstein

@tomgoldsteincs

Professor at UMD. AI security & privacy, algorithmic bias, foundations of ML. Follow me for commentary on state-of-the-art AI.

Mohit Bansal

@mohitban47

Parker Distinguished Prof @UNC. PECASE/ACL/AAAI Fellow. Director http://MURGeLab.cs.unc.edu (@unc_ai_group). Past @Berkeley_AI @TTIC_Connect @IITKanpur #NLP #CV

Greg Durrett

@gregd_nlp

Associate professor at NYU (Courant CS + Center for Data Science) | advisor for @bespokelabsai | large language models and NLP | he/him

Ashish Vaswani

@ashVaswani

Eric Zelikman

@ericzelikman

cofounder & ceo @humansand - building ai for humans // was lgtm-ing @xAI, phd-ing @stanford

Eunsol Choi

@eunsolc

on natural language processing / machine learning. assistant prof at @NYUDataScience @NYU_Courant prev @UTCompSci @googleai, @uwcse, @Cornell.

Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Sc.D.

@ZeyuanAllenZhu

physics of language models @ Meta (FAIR at MSL, not GenAI or TBD) 🎓：Tsinghua Physics — MIT CSAIL — Princeton/IAS 🏅：IOI x 2 — ICPC — USACO — Codejam — math MCM

Niloofar

@niloofar_mire

Technical staff @humansand, asst. prof @LTIatCMU @CMU_EPP, ex RS in @AIatMeta, postdoc @uwcse, Ph.D. @ucsd_cse, former @MSFTResearch -- NAACL & ACL pr chair

Akari Asai

@AkariAsai

Assistant Professor @SCSatCMU & research scientist @allen_ai

Sameer Singh

@sameer_

Safety at @AIatMeta and Prof at @UCIrvine, prev Cofounder @SpiffyAI (aka Envive), works on reliable LLMs, explanations for A, safety, and debugging/evaluation.

Luca Soldaini 🎀

@soldni

data mines are my passion ⛏️ mts @MicrosoftAI / ex Olmo co-lead @allen_ai / posts mine, leave my employer alone 🌈

Mohit Iyyer

@MohitIyyer

assoc. prof at @umdcs, i work on nlp/llms

Songlin Yang

@SonglinYang4

pretraining @thinkymachines. Prev. PhD @MIT_CSAIL. INTP 🐱. she/her/hers.

Junyang Lin

@JustinLin610

building p7k @pragmatik_labs | ❤️ 🍵 ☕️

Jiajun Wu

@jiajunwu_cs

Assistant Professor at @Stanford CS

Kai-Wei Chang

@kaiwei_chang

Associate Professor @UCLAengineering/@UCLA. Area: #NLProc/#ML/#AI http://kwchang.net

Shunyu Yao

@ShunyuYao12

Language agents

Omer Levy

@omerlevy_

AI Researcher at Google DeepMind

Zhou Yu

@Zhou_Yu_AI

Founder of http://Arklex.ai, Associate Professor at Columbia. Making ai agent design and deployment easy, safe, and fast! Forbes 30 under 30.

Wenhu Chen

@WenhuChen

Meta MSL. I led PoT, MMMU, MMLU-Pro, ClawBench, MAmmoTH, General-Reasoner, VL-Rethinker, VLM2Vec. I contributed to Gemini-2.5 and Muse Spark series.

Daniel Fried

@dan_fried

Assistant prof. @LTIatCMU @SCSatCMU. Working on NLP: LLM agents, language-to-code, applied pragmatics, grounding.

Vered Shwartz

@VeredShwartz

Assistant Professor @UBC_CS & @VectorInst working on Natural Language Processing. Book: https://lostinautomatictranslation.com/. 🦋: @veredshwartz.bsky.social

Wei Xu

@cocoweixu

CS professor @GeorgiaTech @gtcomputing @ICatGT @mlatgt. Evaluating & Improving LLMs (multilingual, reasoning, RL, multi-turn, privacy/safety, etc.)

Weijia Shi

@WeijiaShi2

Pretraining @AnthropicAI @cornell_tech @uwnlp

Jordan Boyd-Graber

@boydgraber

Trivia Nerd, NLPer, Dad, Colorado native in Singapore Working on QA, negotiating/cooperating bots, AI explanations Exemplar for absent-minded professor

Quanquan Gu

@QuanquanGu

Founder of Geodesic Intelligence @Geodesiclab | Professor @UCLA | Opinions are my own

William Wang

@WilliamWangNLP

CEO & Founder, @AlphaDesignAI. We make http://ChipAgents.ai I'm also Mellichamp Chair Prof. at UCSB CS. PhD @ CMU SCS.