A bio for Jack Hessel to be used for, e.g., talk introductions. Last updated Aug 19, 2023. Bio: Jack Hessel is a Research Scientist at the Allen Institute for AI. He previously earned a PhD from Cornell. These days, he's working to expand language models with new modalities (e.g., vision) for a more complete view of the world. His work, which spans language processing, machine learning, and computer vision, has been reconized with an ACL 2023 best paper award.