People
Current
Faculty Advisor
Professor in Linguistics and CS interested in natural language understanding and neural dialogue generation.
Team Lead
MS student interested in large LMs and low-latency dialogue. Working on high-level team direction and core functionality. Previously at NVIDIA AI and Stanford CRFM.
Co-Lead
BS student interested in computer systems. Working on a CAMEL linter to preemptively catch errors in our custom conversation language and developing entity-based conversation navigation for Chirpy Cardinal. Past full stack intern at Nvidia and research intern with Stanford Medical School.
Code Lead
BS student interested in computer systems and conversational AI. Working on the CAMEL infrastructure (a custom language used to generate conversations) and the entity-based state system for Chirpy Cardinal. Previously at Dragonfruit AI.
Researcher
MS Student interested in dialogue systems. Working on the Celebrity topic, Books topic, and automated conversation improvement for Chirpy Cardinal. Past Research intern at USC ICT, research assistant at Stanford NLP Group.
Researcher
MS student interested in large language models and reinforcement learning in zero-sum games. Working on automated code generation across different topic nodes for Chirpy Cardinal. Current researcher at Stanford OVAL and NLP Group, past intern at SIG and Stanford AI in Healthcare.
Researcher
MS Student interested in machine learning distillation and optimization. Working on LLM model for neural generative conversation at Chirpy Cardinal falcon. Former Meta intern worked on AI based recommendations.
Developer
BS student interested in computer system and applied machine learning. Working on the music-related nodes for Chirpy Cardinal. Past CURIS research intern at Stanford NLP Group.
Researcher
MS student interested in democratization of large language models, model compression, and parameter efficient model enhancements. Working on improving neural generation inference speeds through task aware pruning. Previously at NVIDIA as a Senior Applied Scientist on the Conversational AI team.
Deployment Lead
MS student interested in computer systems. Working primarily on deployment and infrastructure/performance for Chirpy Cardinal. Previously at Glean, Convoy and AWS.
Developer
BS student interested in NLP + chatbots. Working on the opinion, fallback and holiday nodes for Chirpy Cardinal. Currently also at Stanford OVAL research group.
Developer
BS student interested in computer systems. Working on the music-related nodes for Chirpy Cardinal. Past CURIS research intern with the Stanford Theory Group.
Developer
BS student interested in NLP, large LMs, and the intersection between linguistics and AI. Working on designing conversational flows for movies, TV shows, and sports. Past research intern at Stanford NLP Group, and currently at Stanford AI Group.
Developer
BS student interested in NLP and multi-modal research. Working on Chirpy Pre-Firing (Predicting user dialogue) and Dialog Flows for Sports and TV shows. Previously Co-founder at edspire.ai.
Developer
BS student interested in mathematical modeling and theoretical computer science. Working on the dialog flow for books, sports, and video games. Previously a research intern in the CS Theory Group.
Artistic Associate
BS student interested in AI art, ethics, and haptics. Working on AI art generation for all nodes covered by Chirpy Cardinal. Past research intern at LBCN and prospective research intern at BDML.
Researcher
PhD student interested in natural language processing, working on long-term coherence and uncertainty quantification. Currently also a member of the Stanford NLP and Theory groups.
Alumni
Team Leader, SGC4/Open. Lived and breathed Chirpy for a year. Now at HRT.
Team Leader, SGC3/Open. Built Chirpy from the ground up and worked on conversational QA. Now at Samaya AI.
Team Leader, SGC3. Built Chirpy from the ground up and worked on neural generation. Now at DeepMind.
SGC4. Rengineered Chirpy’s backbone and wrote over 10,000 lines of code for it. Now at Open Government Products.
SGC3. Designed the Movies and Music modules, among many others. Now at Google Brain.
SGC4. Built our distilled neural generator. Now a PhD candidate at UMich.
SGC4. Deployment lead. Now at Dashibase.
SGC3/Open. Researched initiative—how chatbots share conversational direction with the user.
SGC4. Worked on entity linking. Now at Moveworks.
SGC4. Co-built the news module. Now a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley.
SGC4. Co-built the news module. Now a PhD candidate at CMU.
SGC4/Open. Built neural generators and worked on node-based dialogue. Now at Jump.
SGC3/Open. Worked on building out dialogue and instrumental in creating Open-Chirpy.
SGC4. Latent dialogue acts and tooling. Now at CitSec.
SGC4. Worked on dialogue robustness. Now a PhD candidate at Stanford.
SGC3. Core dialogue generation. Now at Google.
SGC3. Helped build out a news generator. Now at Meta.