University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Hannaneh Hajishirzi is Senior Director at Ai2 and a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. Her public materials focus on generative AI, reasoning, open language models, pre-training, and evaluation.

Chao Zhang is an applied scientist in the Alibaba Foundation Model team. His public profile notes a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and research interests in NLP, large language models, reasoning, and multimodal generation.

Zilong Huang is a principal researcher at Tencent Singapore whose work focuses on multimodal interaction, multimodal agents, multimodal pretraining, and efficient model architectures. He previously worked at ByteDance and received his Ph.D. and B.E. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Boxin Wang is a senior research scientist at NVIDIA working on practical and scalable large language models, including trustworthiness, multimodal language modeling, and retrieval-augmented generation. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Shashank Gupta's public homepage describes him as an applied scientist at Ai2 focused on agentic LLMs, test-time compute, post-training, and reasoning, after earlier work in Microsoft AI.

Zhuolin Yang's personal page says he is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA ADLR whose interests include trustworthy machine learning, multimodal LLMs, and reasoning.

Jieyu Zhang's personal site says she is a final-year PhD student in computer science at the University of Washington advised by Ranjay Krishna and Alex Ratner. UW RAIVN also lists her as a PhD student since 2020, and her site lists an AI2 research internship beginning in January 2025.

Amelie Haghighat is an incoming assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago whose research focuses on trustworthy and resource-efficient machine learning systems.

Works on information extraction, tabular data, and NLP for healthcare, and previously completed an MS in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Yangyi Chen is a research scientist at NVIDIA. His homepage says he works on LLM post-training and LLM-based coding agents, and it lists him as a Nemotron-Cascade 2 coauthor.

Hajishirzi, Hannaneh

Chao Zhang

Zilong Huang

Wang, Boxin

Gupta, Shashank

Yang, Zhuolin

Zhang, Jieyu

Amelie Haghighat

Gao, Chufan

Chen, Yangyi