Dani Yogatama

Dani Yogatama is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California and cofounder/CEO of Reka. Previously, he served as a senior staff research scientist at DeepMind (2016-2022) and worked at Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab (2015-2016).

He earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (2010-2015) under Noah Smith in Noah's ARK research group, was a Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Fellow at the University of Tokyo (2008-2010) in Tanaka-Ishii's Lab, and completed undergraduate studies at Indonesia's Institut Teknologi Bandung.

His research centers on Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning, with significant contributions to language modeling, representation learning, and AI applications. His work bridges theoretical advances with practical implementations in industry settings.

Key recognition includes:

• Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Fellowship

He currently advises five PhD students at USC and has mentored numerous interns from top institutions including Cambridge, CMU, and Oxford during his DeepMind tenure. His extensive service includes Action Editor for TACL (2020-2024), Tutorial Chair for ACML 2021, and Area Chair roles for NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, and ICLR between 2020-2023.