Rishi Bommasani

Hi! I'm a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University advised by Percy Liang and Dan Jurafsky.
I helped build and currently help organize the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM). I am also affiliated with Stanford NLP and Stanford AI.
My graduate studies are funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). [Press Release]

I graduated with a B.A. (Mathematics, Computer Science; 2019) and M.S. (Computer Science; 2020) from Cornell University, where I was advised by the incomparable Claire Cardie.
I am honored to have the fortune of learning from and collaborating with the late Professor Arzoo Katiyar, who I profoundly miss.
During my time at Cornell, Cornell CS was my home. The department wrote this nice piece about my journey at Cornell. [Profile] [Profile 2]

My research focuses on understanding AI systems and their societal impact, as well as using NLP to further scientific inquiry.
Primary research interests: foundation models, measurement and evaluation, data in ML, inequity and systemic harm, ethics
Secondary research interests: computational social science, language acquisition, algorithms and TCS

What have I been up to?

July 2022 Our paper on algorithmic monoculture and outcome homogenization with Katie Creel, Ananya Kumar, Dan, and Percy was accepted at EAAMO. Paper forthcoming! [Temporary Version]
June 2022 Our preprint on emergent abilities in language models, led by Jason Wei, is on arXiv. [arXiv] [Press]
June 2022 HAI featured a story on my research journey and role in building the CRFM community. [Story]
May 2022 Our paper on data governance for language data, led by Yacine Jernite, Huu Nguyen, Meg Mitchell, was accepted at FAccT 2022. [Paper]
May 2022 Percy, Katie Creel, Rob Reich, and I argued for community norms to govern foundation models. [Blog Post] [Press]
April 2022 Chris Potts (Stanford) and I had a delightful conversation about my research and the field of NLP. [Interview]
August 2021 We inaugurated the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), an amazing interdisciplinary initiative spanning 10+ departments! [Announcement Story]
August 2021 We released our long report: On the Opportunties and Risks of Foundation Models! Thanks to all 113 of my coauthors! [Report Page] [Explainer Video]