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Jack Hessel

contact: jmhessel@gmail.com

CV (as of Jan. 2025).

I am on github, bluesky, twitter, and google scholar.

I am a machine learning researcher at Samaya AI. Previously, I was a postdoc/research scientist at AI2, and before that, I earned a PhD in Computer Science at Cornell University. If you're looking for a bio for a talk introduction, here's one. If you're looking for me in person, I look something like this:

Me

Selected projects:

All my publications (in ~reverse chronological order)

Former interns

I've been undeservedly fortunate to (co-)host to many PhD research interns. Following their excitement and insight has been a highlight of my working life. Former interns (whom I hope do not regret entrusting me+their co-hosts with one of their valuable PhD summer quarters!) include: Sarah Wiegreffe, Yanpeng Zhao, Liunian Harold Li, Wanrong Zhu, Amita Kamath, Jillian Fisher, Tejas Srinivasan, Anthony Sicilia, Yutaro Yamada, and Orion Weller.

Work Experience

Invited Talks

My CV is more up-to-date, but I've been fortunate to speak at (roughly alphabetically): Adobe Research, Carnegie Mellon University, Carleton College, Cornell, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Univeristy of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, Seoul National University, SRI International, University of Washington, and more!

Service/Guest Lectures/Other Activites

My CV is more up to date, but I have reviewed/ACed/etc. for many NLP/CV/ML venues since 2016 including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AACL, EACL, AAAI, CoNLL, ACL Rolling Review, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, JAIR, ICWSM and more!

Other fun projects

More?

I grew up in beautiful Portola Valley, California. I earned a B.A. from Carleton College in 2014, studying computer science and mathematics/statistics. During my time in Northfield, I played ice hockey, and hosted a radio show. I even returned to Carleton briefly in 2019, this time, as a visiting faculty member. I'm a die hard San Jose Sharks fan, avid consumer (and very occasionally a producer) of electronic music, and, an amateur lockpick. During graduate school at Cornell, I was a member of Stewart Little Coop, a community of 15 people, I played ice hockey in the Ithaca Hockey Association (and, during summer internships in CA, in the San Jose Adult Hockey League).