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Merrill, William

TTIC and William Merrill's homepage describe him as currently at the Allen Institute for AI and incoming to TTIC in Fall 2026 after a PhD from New York University. Public profile pages describe research spanning transformer expressivity, formal language theory, computational linguistics, and language models.

Ai2 Young Investigator and incoming TTIC assistant professor focused on transformer theory and language structure.1 organizations1 reports

Profile status: updated

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natural language processingformal language theorylanguage models

Current frame

Ai2 Young Investigator and incoming TTIC assistant professor focused on transformer theory and language structure.

Education

New York University PhD · Data Science 2021 → 2025
Yale University Education entry 2015 → 2019

Work

Allen Institute for AI Young Investigator
Allen Institute for AI Researcher

Public links

website Homepage dblp DBLP google_scholar Google Scholar openreview OpenReview

Organizations

extended Ai2

Reports

Report Olmo Hybrid: From Theory to Practice and Back

Official and primary sources

William Merrill | OpenReview Official source · openreview · OpenReview William Merrill Official source · team_page · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago