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Noah Smith is the Amazon Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. He holds adjunct appointments in Linguistics and serves as Senior Director of NLP Research at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Previously an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Smith earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and dual BS/BA degrees from the University of Maryland.
His research focuses on developing algorithms for language/music data processing, AI methodology improvement, and human capability augmentation. He co-directs the OLMo open language modeling initiative and leads the NSF/NVIDIA-funded 'Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science' project. Research spans machine learning foundations, NLP applications, and computational social science methodologies.
Smith's publications demonstrate consistent focus on transformer architectures, language model optimization, and AI ethics. Recent work addresses length extrapolation techniques, self-supervised alignment, domain adaptation, toxicity evaluation, and linguistic transfer learning.
- ACL Fellow (2020)
- Amazon Alexa Prize (2017)
- UW Innovation Award (2016-2018)
- NSF CAREER Award (2011-2016)
- 15+ best paper awards at major conferences
He has graduated 32 PhD students and mentored 18 postdocs, with 28 alumni in faculty positions globally. Leads the Noah's ARK research group and UW NLP lab, focusing on open-source AI infrastructure development.
