Assistant prof.
@LTIatCMU@SCSatCMU. Working on NLP: LLM agents, language-to-code, applied pragmatics, grounding.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined August 2013
We're creating a new course on AI Agents at CMU this Fall! We’re aiming to give students hands-on experience: from building agentic harnesses and evals to training with RL. Check out our course site for the full schedule: cmu-agents.com
How successfully -- and efficiently! -- can agents carry out long-horizon tasks on the web? We built a benchmark of ~200 multi-site tasks, based on people's real browsing history. Many of them take hours to solve. Paper: odysseys-website.pages.dev Led by
@JangLawrenceKand
Also at #ICLR2026: a new benchmark for coding agents that implement and run experiments from papers. Masking regions of code gives us a knob to control difficulty of the task (still verifiable!) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.19724 Work with
@j1mk1m1016, Alex Wilf, and
@lpmorencyThis morning (Fri) at #ICLR2026, check out Andy's work on ConflictScope: determining how an LLM prioritizes between a set of user-provided values, by generating scenarios where the values are in conflict. P4-#4105

