Elias Stengel-eskin
Assistant Professor Of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolElias Stengel-eskin is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and former postdoctoral researcher at UNC Chapel Hill with a decade of experience exploring how AI agents communicate and collaborate with people. He earned his PhD at Johns Hopkins’ Center for Speech and Language Processing after an Honours BA&Sc. in Cognitive Science from McGill, pairing formal linguistics with machine learning for semantic parsing, multimodal grounding, and human-robot interaction. His research uniquely bridges explicit meaning representation and implicit phenomena—vagueness, underspecification, and ambiguity—probing how models internally encode meaning. Known for rigorous lab-to-field thinking, Elias blends linguistic insight with practical AI systems, aiming to make interactive agents that understand both what is said and what is left unsaid.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Honours Cognitive Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Honours Cognitive Science at McGill University
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Github Skills (51)
simulation10
deep-q-network10
robotics10
reinforcement-learning10
manipulation10
robot10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision10
acoustics9
semantics9
command-line-utility9
deep-learning9
neo4j9
rest-api8
compression8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
esteng/guiding-multi-step
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
esteng/esteng.github.io
Sep 2018 - Mar 2025
Personal webpage
Contributions:2 PRs, 196 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 7 months
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