People

Meet our team of researchers, students, and collaborators.

Principal Investigator

PhD Students

Noah Schaffer

1st-year PhD student

Research interests: Controllable audio generation, human-AI co-creation, mechanistic interpretability and discovery for artistic applications

Ruize Xu

1st-year PhD student

Research interests: World models, (mechanistic) interpretability and discovery, LLMs, post-training, AI agents

Chenming Shang

1st-year PhD student

Co-advised with Adam Breuer

Research interests: Trustworthy AI, interpretability, generalization, connections to Cognitive Science

Omar Sharif

4th-year PhD student

Research interests: Information extraction, multimodal learning, NLP for health and social good

Yujin Tang

1st-year PhD student

Research interests: AI agents, multimodal learning and reasoning, long-horizon reasoning

Jun Jie Ou Yang

1st-year PhD student

Research interests: AI agents, post-training, context engineering, adaptation & personalization

Master’s & Undergraduate Researchers

Students working on their thesis research in the lab.

Undergraduate Researchers

Rhianna SmithComputer Science, '26

Close Collaborators & Friends

Folks we often work with, beyond our lab.

Temiloluwa Prioleau

Assistant Professor, Director of Augmented Health Lab

Emory University

Peanut

Lab Mascot

Dartmouth College