Yonatan Bisk

Yonatan Bisk is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University within the Language Technologies Institute (with courtesy appointment in Robotics Institute). His research bridges Natural Language Processing, Robotics, and Embodied AI, focusing on language grounding, theory of mind, and multimodal interaction.

• Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Postdoctoral Experience: USC ISI, University of Washington, Allen Institute for AI
• Industry Appointments: Microsoft Research, Meta AI

His research emphasizes embodied language systems and social intelligence in AI. Recent projects include WebArena for autonomous agents, SOTOPIA for social reasoning, and HomeRobot for open-vocabulary manipulation. He leads the REAL Center (Robotics, Embodied AI, and Learning) to foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

Key scientific awards include selection for the DARPA ISAT Study Group (2024). He teaches courses like "Talking to Robots" and "Multimodal Machine Learning" while serving as area chair/editor across NLP, Robotics, and ML communities.