SoCal AI/ML/NLP researchers
Folks in Southern California doing research in AI, NLP, vision, ML, and adjacent fields (schools like Caltech, UCLA, USC, UCI, UCSD, UCSB, UCR, etc)
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@sameer-singh.bsky.social
@yufei01.bsky.social
@hashleys.bsky.social
NLP PhD student @ UCSD | NSF CS grad fellow recommender systems, retrieval, ML 맛집 ashleyshin.org her/she
@stephanmandt.bsky.social
AI Professor @UCIrvine | Formerly @blei_lab, @Princeton | #GenAI, #Compression, #AI4Science | General Chair @aistats_conf 2025 | AI Resident @ChanZuckerberg
@yuyang0901.bsky.social
CS PhD @UCLAComSci 🧸 | Prev @AIatMeta @MSFTResearch @AmazonScience @uclamath | Improving data for efficiency, robustness and performance @San Francisco https://sites.google.com/g.ucla.edu/yuyang/home
@oliu-io.bsky.social
https://ollieliu.com/; oliver irl phd'ing in ml@usc; prev. ml@cmu, msr multimodal foundation models, ai4sci, decision making
@shivanshu-gupta.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UC Irvine, Research Intern @ai2 | Previously ASAPP Amazon LinkedIn @msftresearch IIT-Delhi Research on In-Context Learning and LLM Agents https://shivanshu-gupta.github.io
@velocityyu.bsky.social
NLP/ML @usc, @uwcse. she/her.🏹🤖👩🏻🍳. velocitycavalry.github.io. Multilinguality, retrieval, refining LLMs…
@jiaruizhang.bsky.social
USC CS Ph.D. student Prev Tsinghua Uni NLP, Multimodal Learning, AI for Science https://saccharomycetes.github.io/
@yuzheyang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UCLA | Scientist @Google | PhD @MIT | BS @PKU #ML, #AI, #health, #medicine https://people.csail.mit.edu/yuzhe/
@yihe-deng.bsky.social
CS PhD candidate @UCLA | Prev. Research Intern @MSFTResearch, Applied Scientist Intern @AWS | LLM post-training, multi-modal learning https://yihedeng9.github.io
@quanquangu.bsky.social
Professor @UCLA, Research Scientist @ByteDance | Recent work: SPIN, SPPO, DPLM 1/2, GPM, MARS | Opinions are my own
@realdanfu.bsky.social
Incoming assistant professor at UCSD CSE in MLSys. Currently recruiting students! Also academic partner at Together AI. https://danfu.org/
@ruiyiwang.bsky.social
1st-year PhD at UCSD | RL, NLP, HCI Research: Agents🤖, Reasoning🧠, Games👾 Misc: Piano🎹, Composing🎼, Singing🎤, Climbing🧗♀️, (fiction) Writing✍️ 🤎A CAPYBARA lover🤎
@chhaviyadav.bsky.social
Machine Learning Researcher | PhD Candidate @ucsd_cse | @trustworthy_ml chhaviyadav.org
@kenantang.bsky.social
CS PhD student at UCSB AI for healthcare / LLM writing assistants / Image Editing kenantang.github.io
@wordscompute.bsky.social
nlp/ml phding @ usc, interpretability & reasoning & pretraining & emergence 한american, she, iglee.me, likes ??= bookmarks
@rebeccadorn.bsky.social
PhD candidate at USC. Studying inequitable social systems in NLP, social media and content moderation. They/She http://rebedorn.github.io
@willieneis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in CS + AI at USC. Previously at Stanford, CMU. Machine Learning, Decision Making, AI-for-Science, Generative AI, ML Systems, LLMs. https://willieneis.github.io
@athrvkk.bsky.social
CS PhD at USC | Prev - CMU, Apple, IIIT Delhi | Robust, Generalizable, and Trustworthy NLP https://athrvkk.github.io/
@joelwa.bsky.social
AI learning tech postdoc @ USC. Software @Privateer Space. Former public school teacher. I bang my head against multimodal models, computational models of cognition, and structured knowledge. Math and CS education. Justice.
@brihi.bsky.social
NLP PhD @ USC Everything language, humans, felines and music (and an infrequent shit-poster) brihijoshi.github.io
@muruzhang.bsky.social
First-year NLP PhD @ USC | Intern @ TogetherAI | Prev. UW, AWS https://nanami18.github.io/
@kareemyousrii.bsky.social
Postdoc @ University of California, Irvine | PhD from CS@UCLA Neuro-Symbolic AI, Tractable Probabilistic Reasoning, Generative Models kareemahmed.com
@berkustun.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UCSD. I work on interpretability, fairness, and safety in ML. www.berkustun.com
@tejassrinivasan.bsky.social
CS PhD student at USC. Former research intern at AI2 Mosaic. Interested in human-AI interaction and language grounding.
@izzycw.bsky.social
PhD Student at UC San Diego | LLM Agents, Reinforcement Learning, Human-AI Collaboration, Multi-Agent Systems
@arjunsubgraph.bsky.social
@saxon.me
NLP/Vision+Language PhD Candidate @ UCSB Evals, multilinguality, and multimodality https://saxon.me/
@yisongyue.bsky.social
AI professor at Caltech. General Chair ICLR 2025. http://www.yisongyue.com
@guyvdb.bsky.social
🎓 CS Prof at UCLA 🧠 Researching reasoning and learning in artificial intelligence: tactable deep generative models, probabilistic circuits, probabilistic programming, neurosymbolic AI https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~guyvdb/
@rajammanabrolu.bsky.social
AI, RL, NLP, Games Asst Prof at UCSD Research Scientist at Mosaic Databricks Lab: http://pearls.ucsd.edu Personal: prithvirajva.com
@thomason.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ USC http://glamor.rocks/ https://jessethomason.com/
@sameer-singh.bsky.social
CS Prof at UC Irvine, CTO/Cofounder at Spiffy AI Work on evaluation and robustness of LLMs