New York University

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.

Xinxing Zu is a research scientist at Moonshot AI. His public profile notes a PhD in computer science from New York University, prior work as an AI scientist at Amazon, and research interests in AI agents, reasoning, and multimodality.

Yuling Gu's NYU and personal pages describe her as a PhD student at NYU Center for Data Science who previously worked at Ai2 and has contributed to OLMo and OLMES.

William Merrill is a Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI and an incoming assistant professor at TTIC. His public faculty profile describes research on the computational power and limits of transformers, computational linguistics, and deep learning theory.

Heng Ji is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and founding director of the Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conversational Experiences (AICE). Her research focuses on natural language processing, information extraction, knowledge-enhanced large language models, and vision-language models.

Merrill, William

Xinxing Zu

Gu, Yuling

Merrill, Will

Heng Ji