- Release of Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy, achieving SOTA on Humanity’s Last Exam.
- CaseSumm accepted to NAACL 2025.
- Mango accepted to COLM 2024.
- Statler accepted to ICRA 2024.
- EasyTPP accepted to ICLR 2024.
Research Experience
- Member of Technical Staff at xAI, responsible for training Grok to be a knowledgeable reasoner and contributing to the development of Grok 4 Heavy.
- Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind before joining xAI.
- Research Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), leading the River Lab in research on AI reasoning and planning.
Education
PhD in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, advised by Jason Eisner. Developed the neural Hawkes process, widely used in event sequence modeling and prediction.
Background
Research Interest: Training computers to reason; Professional Field: AI reasoning and planning; Bio: Currently working at xAI, dedicated to developing the knowledgeable reasoning system Grok.