Yonatan Bisk
Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Language Technologies Institute
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolYonatan Bisk is a research leader and NLP/Embodied AI specialist with 13 years of experience bridging academic rigor and industry impact from Carnegie Mellon and Meta to Origami Robotics. He leads work on grounding, vision-and-language, and RoboNLP, translating deep linguistic and perceptual theory into embodied systems and real-world robotics research. As an Assistant Professor at CMU and a serial industry collaborator (Microsoft, AI2), he combines mentorship and lab-scale engineering to move ideas from papers to deployed prototypes. Known jokingly on GitHub as a "Linguistic Divination Professor," he brings a playful intellectual curiosity to serious problems in language grounding and multimodal understanding.
13 years of coding experience
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (51)
in-progress10
language-processing10
named-entity-recognition9
data-generation9
machine-translation9
offheap9
datasets9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
java8
protein-sequences7
json7
binary-serialization7
bert7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ybisk/11-777-template
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
Template GitHub Repo for 11-777
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ybisk/FIND
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
Discovering Functionally and Structurally Important Features in Protein Sequences with Deep Neural Networks
Contributions:7 PRs, 27 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
autoencoderdiscoveringdeep-learningneural-networksdeep-neural-networks
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