Leadership

Robustness and AI Security, VLM training, few/zero-shot classifier evaluation, equilibrium models

Evaluation/verification of LLM outputs, LM training methods, retrieval-based LLMs, LLMs with external tools

Algorithms for finetuning foundation models, robustness/reliability, understanding representation

LLM pretraining, retrieval-augmentation, data-centric LLMs, embedding models
Members of the FLAME Center

Yonatan Bisk
Language for robots, LLM-based planning, other signals

Beidi Chen
Hardware algorithms, long context generation, FMs for new material

Tianqi Chen
System support for ML, LLMs on local devices, scaling open language models

Matt Fredrikson
LLMs in safety/privacy risk situations, code verification, neuro-symbolic methods

Daniel Fried
Pragmatics of language, context, generating/following instructions, code models, interfaces, multimodal dialog

Gabe Gomes
Finetuning LLMs for neuro-symbolic reasoning, autonomous scientific research, robotics

Albert Gu
State space models, network architectures, audio models

Daphne Ippolito
Generative language models for coherent and engaging narratives, leveraging models as creative tools

Olexandr Isayev
Chemistry, machine learning, molecular modeling, quantum mechanics

Zhihao Jia
Support for LLMs, computational efficiency, speculative execution, GPU memory

Aviral Kumar
Reinforcement learning (RL), foundation models and reinforcement learning

Lei Li
Large Language Models, Multilingual NLP, AI for Science

Zack Chase Lipton
NLP in medicine, decision support, evaluation outside labeled datasets, robustness

Jian Ma
LLMs for molecular and cell biology, Single-cell genomics, AI for biomedicine

Adam Perer
Interactive and Visual Data Science, Interpretable Machine Learning, Data-Driven Healthcare

Aditi Raghunathan
Algorithms for finetuning foundation models, robustness/reliability, understanding representation

Deva Ramanan
Vision language models, long-tailed recognition, image generation

Maarten Sap
Ethical risks, LLM limitations w.r.t. reasoning, social intelligence

Virginia Smith
Privacy, robustness, finetuning, LLM validation, federated learning

Emma Strubell
Efficiency of LLMs, computation, data, applications outside CS

Ameet Talwalkar
Multimodal learning, Human-AI Collaboration, LLM Evaluation

Michael J Tarr
Cognitive Science, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, NeuroAI, Perception, Vision

Sean Welleck
LLMs for math and theorem proving, inference algorithms

Sherry Wu
Intersection of HCI and NLP, model mapping to use cases

Steven Wu
Responsible AI, Interactive learning, Economic aspects of machine learning

Eric Xing
System support for LLMs, pretraining, finetuning, federated learning, private inference, acceleration, Vicuna model, AI for science

Jun-Yan Zhu
Computer vision, graphics, computational photography, generative models