Scholar
Orion Weller
Google Scholar ID: SYYd4iAAAAAJ
Johns Hopkins University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,543
H-index
22
i10-index
28
Publications
20
Co-authors
43
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: Work with Google DeepMind covered by VentureBeat; Paper Awards: CoLM'24 Outstanding Paper (Reverse Engineering Knowledge Cutoffs), SIGIR’24 Best Paper Nominee (Evaluating Long-Form Report Generation), ECIR’25 Honorable Mention (Evaluating instructions in IR); Project Contributions: Over 25 million downloads of ModernBERT, developer of Promptriever and Rank1/Rank-K.
Research Experience
- Interning at Meta's Superintelligence Lab FAIR language team in Fall 2025, under Xilun Chen and Scott Yih. Previously interned at Google DeepMind, Samaya AI, AI2, and Apple.
Education
- PhD student, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Language and Speech Processing; Advisors: Benjamin Van Durme and Dawn Lawrie; Time: Expected to graduate in Fall 2025; Specialization: Language Models and Information Retrieval.
Background
- Research interests lie at the intersection of language models and information retrieval, working to improve how models find, understand, and synthesize information. Recent focus areas include: agentic search/improved retrieval, evaluation and measurement, and pre-training (decoders, encoders, multilingual). Currently a final-year PhD student at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University.
Miscellany
- Contact: {last_name}{first_name}@gmail.com
