Basics
Member of Technical Staff
Anthropic
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Data Science & Computer Science
Co-PI, Alignment Research Group, ML² Group & CILVR Lab
(on research leave Summer 2022–Summer 2024)
New York University
PhD 2016, Stanford NLP Group & Stanford Linguistics
Interests
At NYU, I study artificial neural network models for natural language understanding, with a focus on language model alignment, building high-quality training and evaluation data, and applying neural network models to scientific questions in syntax and semantics.
During an extended sabbatical-year research leave (2022–2024), I'm also leading a research group at Anthropic working on language model evaluation and alignment. I'm continuing to advise research at NYU during this time.
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Greatest Hits
You're most likely to have encountered my group by way of our SNLI, MultiNLI datasets, our GLUE and SuperGLUE benchmark competitions, our jiant software toolkit, or our papers on a range of topics involving language models.
Contact
If we haven't been in contact previously, please look through this FAQ before emailing me. You can reach me at bowman@nyu.edu.
News
- I have a new slightly-opinionated survey paper on the current state of research on LLMs: Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models.
- I'm organizing a new AI safety research group at NYU, and I wrote up a blog post explaining what we're up to and why.
- I got tenure and was promoted to associate professor! Thanks to the many, many people who made this possible.
- I'm excited about our large specialist-written QuALITY (multiple-choice) and SQuALITY (long-text answer) benchmarks for machine reading comprehension over long input texts. Both are available now, and QuALITY was presented at NAACL.
- I have new funding for data collection/crowdsourcing work from the NSF CAREER program, from Google's Collabs program, and from Open Philanthropy. Thanks to everyone who reviewed the proposals!
- I joined the Department of Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute as an associated faculty member, in addition to my primary appointment in Linguistics and Data Science.