Maarten Sap
Scholar

Maarten Sap

Google Scholar ID: gFN4QUYAAAAJ
Carnegie Mellon University
Natural Language ProcessingArtificial IntelligenceCommonsense ReasoningEthics in AIComputational Social Science
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
14,844
 
H-index
48
 
i10-index
80
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
35
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Named a Packard Fellow in 2025; one of seven US recipients of the 2025 Okawa Research Grant from the Okawa Foundation; five papers accepted to COLM 2025, including HAICOSYSTEM, ALFA, and PolyGuard.
Research Experience
  • Leads a research group that includes multiple PhD students and a postdoc, focusing on ethical AI and human-centered design.
Education
  • Received his PhD from the University of Washington where he was advised by Noah Smith and Yejin Choi.
Background
  • An assistant professor at CMU's LTI department with a courtesy appointment in HCII, and a part-time research scientist and AI safety lead at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). His research focuses on (1) measuring and improving AI systems' social and interactional intelligence, (2) assessing and combatting social inequality, safety risks, and socio-cultural biases in human- or AI-generated language, and (3) building narrative language technologies for prosocial outcomes.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests and hobbies not mentioned.