Sasha Rush
Associate Professor, Cornell University
Alexander "Sasha" Rush is an Associate Professor at Cornell Tech. His work is at the intersection of natural language processing and generative modeling with applications in text generation, efficient inference, and controllability. He has written several popular open-source software projects supporting NLP research and data science, and works part-time as a researcher at Hugging Face. He is past Secretary and General Chair of ICLR and a founder and president of COLM. His work has received paper and demo awards at major NLP, visualization, and hardware conferences, an NSF Career Award, and a Sloan Fellowship. He tweets and blogs, mostly about coding and ML, at @srush_nlp.
Program Visits
Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers, Part 2 , Spring 2025, Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer
Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers, Part 1, Fall 2024, Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer