Greg Durrett

Greg Durrett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Texas at Austin, leading the TAUR Lab (Text Analysis, Understanding, and Reasoning). His research focuses on advancing Large Language Models (LLMs) for knowledge-intensive tasks in

• medical information processing
• scientific discovery
• legal reasoning

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He received his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from MIT (2010) and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley (2016). His work develops techniques to

• train LLMs with new capabilities
• augment models for reliability
• assess model outputs
• improve reasoning frameworks

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His 15 most recent publications (2021-2025) span

• knowledge propagation in LLMs
• chain-of-thought reasoning
• code generation benchmarks
• multi-modal reasoning
• fact verification
• discourse analysis

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Scientific honors include

• NSF CAREER Award (2024)
• NSF grants (2018, 2024)
• Bloomberg Data Science Grant (2017)
• Facebook Fellowship (2014)
• Best Paper Finalist (EMNLP 2013)

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Teaching:

• CS388: Natural Language Processing (graduate)
• CS371N: NLP (undergraduate)
• High school NLP module

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