Yale University

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David Brandfonbrener

Google Gemini

Researcher at Anthropic working on machine learning, language models, and reinforcement learning. Previously a postdoctoral researcher at Meta FAIR, and he earned a PhD in computer science from Harvard University.

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Merrill, William

Ai2

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.

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Merrill, Will

Ai2

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.