University of Washington

Luke ZettlemoyerProfessor

Researches large language models, semantic parsing and multimodal pretraining.

• Large language models
• Multilingual, translation & linguistics
• Vision-language & multimodal

Yulia TsvetkovAssociate Professor

Studies multilingual and socially aware NLP, including fairness and safety of language models.

• Interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs
• Large language models

Noah A. SmithProfessor

Researches natural language processing and machine learning, including open language models.

• Large language models

Ali FarhadiProfessor

Works on computer vision and open multimodal foundation models connecting vision, language and reasoning.

• Vision-language & multimodal
• Multimodal & grounded language
• Generative & foundation models

Ranjay KrishnaAssistant Professor

Works at the intersection of computer vision and human-computer interaction, including multimodal models and visual reasoning.

• Vision-language & multimodal
• Multimodal & grounded language
• Reasoning & agents

Abhishek GuptaAssistant Professor

Develops reinforcement learning and robot learning algorithms for robots that learn continually in the real world.

• Manipulation & robot learning
• Reinforcement learning

Sewoong OhProfessor

Researches machine learning theory and privacy, including differential privacy and tokenizers for language models.

• Learning theory & optimization
• Trustworthy & safe ML
• Large language models

Hannaneh HajishirziAssociate Professor

Develops open language models, retrieval-augmented generation and question answering with reasoning over knowledge.

• Knowledge, QA & retrieval
• Large language models

Pang Wei KohAssistant Professor

Develops reliable machine learning methods, including robustness to distribution shift and retrieval-based language models.

• Trustworthy & safe ML
• Large language models
• Knowledge, QA & retrieval

Siddhartha SrinivasaProfessor

Builds full-stack robotic systems for manipulation and assistive feeding, integrating planning, learning and perception.

• Manipulation & robot learning
• Human-robot interaction & assistive robots

Jenq-Neng HwangProfessor

Researches computer vision and machine learning for smart camera networks, including multi-object tracking and traffic video analytics.

• Recognition, detection & segmentation
• Video understanding

Arvind KrishnamurthyProfessor

Builds data center and Internet-scale systems, recently programmable networks and systems for machine learning.

Kevin JamiesonAssociate Professor

Studies adaptive experimental design, active learning and multi-armed bandits.

• Reinforcement learning

Jon E. FroehlichProfessor

Builds human-AI systems for urban accessibility, including crowdsourced and computer-vision sidewalk assessment, and AR tools.

• Human-AI collaboration & trust
• Accessibility, health & wellbeing

Jerry LiAssociate Professor

Studies theory of machine learning, including robust statistics, distribution learning and quantum learning.

• Learning theory & optimization
• Trustworthy & safe ML

Yiyue LuoAssistant Professor

Builds intelligent textiles and wearable tactile sensors with applied machine learning for human and robot interaction.

• Interfaces & interaction techniques

Baris KasikciAssociate Professor

Builds efficient and reliable computer systems, including serving and quantization systems for large language models.

• Efficient training & inference
• Large language models

Radha PoovendranProfessor

Studies security of networked systems and the safety of large language models, including jailbreak attacks and defenses.

• Trustworthy & safe ML
• Large language models

Shyam GollakotaProfessor

Combines deep learning and signal processing for mobile and wearable systems, including AI-powered hearables that isolate target sounds.

• Music, audio & sound
• Speech enhancement & signal processing
• Signal processing & information theory

Ira Kemelmacher-ShlizermanProfessor

Researches computer vision and generative models of people, such as face modeling and virtual try-on.

• Generative & foundation models