Office Hours

Staff Information

Note: The staff information is still being finalized; additional availability will be added here soon.

These are the usual staff members who will be at each session, along with their areas of expertise (which may be useful for finding project advice).
Abbreviations: ML = machine learning, LLM = large language models, RL = reinforcement learning, CV = computer vision.

Day Time Room Staff
Mon 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM Thornton 110, Thornton Center Ahmed Ahmed
LLM Pre-Training, Post-Training, Automated Evals
Sarah Chen
Evals, Interpretability, Embeddings
Caroline Choi
Reasoning, LLM Post-Training, Synthetic Data
Tue 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Gates 370 Diyi Yang
Tue 9:00 AM - 11:50 AM Huang Basement Tristan Thrush
Pre-training Data, Synthetic Data Generation, Multimodality
Luke Bailey
Post-training, Synthetic data, safety
Advit Deepak
LLM Post-training, Agentic AI, AI for Science
Ali Sartaz Khan
Speech & Audio ML, Multimodal LLMs, Generative AI, Agentic AI
Wed 2:30 PM - 5:20 PM Huang Basement Shicheng Liu
LLMs, Retrieval, RL, Agentic Systems
Minsik Oh
LLM Post-Training, RL, Pluralistic Alignment, Representation Learning
Chenglei Si
LLMs & Scientific Discovery
Mirac Suzgun
Reasoning, Evaluation, Multilinguality, Post-Training, Retrieval, Memory
Simon Kim
Vision, evaluations/benchmarks, inference
Thu 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM L107, Littlefield Center Qinan Yu
Interpretability, Reasoning
David Anugraha
Evaluation, Multilinguality, Reasoning, LLM Post-Training
Alisa Levin
Brain-computer interfaces, brain-based speech to text
Nevin George
Socially Aware NLP, Generative AI, Agentic AI
Fri 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Gates 362 Yejin Choi
Fri 1:30 PM - 4:20 PM L107, Littlefield Center Julie Kallini
LLM Architectures, Tokenization, Multilinguality, Linguistics
Arpandeep Khatua
LLMs, Agents, RLVR
Fang Wu
RLHF/RLVR, LLMs & Graphs, LLM/NLP for Science
Wei Liu
3D Vision, Generative AI