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Allen Nie

PhD Student

Stanford University

About Me

I am a final year CS PhD student at Stanford University. I am a part of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL).

In 2019, I rotated with Chris Piech (Fall 19’), Chris Potts (Winter 20’), and Emma Brunskill (Spring 20’). Currently, I am co-advised by Emma Brunskill and Chris Piech, focusing on developing algorithms that supports human decision making.

In 2023, Microsoft Research (MSR) Summer Internship, mentored by Adith Swaminathan and Ching-An Cheng on LLM RL Agent. Our work results in an open-source library Trace.

During my PhD, I have also had the fortune to collaborate with and receive advice from Tobias Gerstenberg, Tatsunori Hashimoto, and Noah Goodman.

I am interested in a wide range of topics in AI, but they generally fall into the following categories:

  1. Reinforcement Learning / Efficient Decision Making Systems for Social Good
  2. Causal inference and Causal Reasoning
  3. Language Understanding
  4. AI/Human Alignment through Statistics and Cognitive Science

As an effort to increase diversity in the field of AI/Tech, I mentor students from the underrepresented group.

Contact me

anie@cs.stanford.edu

Teaching

(assistant)

  • 2023 Spring: CS31N Counterfactuals: The Science of What Ifs?
  • 2022 Winter: CS234 Reinforcement Learning
  • 2018 Spring: CS224U Natural Language Understanding
  • 2017 Spring: CS224S Spoken Language Processing
  • 2016 Winter: CS224N Natural Language Processing

Community Service

  • Program Committee, Foundation Models for Decision Making Workshop, NeurIPS 2022 Workshop, New Orleans
  • Program Committee, Reinforcement Learning Ready for Production Workshop, AAAI 2023
  • ICML 2022, 2024 Reviewer
  • ICLR 2022, 2023 Reviewer
  • NeurIPS 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Reviewer