Alane Suhr


Assistant Professor
Berkeley EECS / BAIR

8052 Berkeley Way West
2121 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94704

publications Berkeley NLP
CS 288 CS 294-258
A random picture either of me or that I took.


About

Hi! I'm Alane Suhr (/əˈleɪn ˈsuəɹ/), an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley EECS.

My research broadly comprises the study of language and language use (especially in situated and jointly embodied interactions, and/or interactions that comprise multiple agents), through a computational lens. I am most excited about explicating computational analogies to, or even computational processes inarguably underlying, the use and structure of language. In practice, my work often intersects with contemporary efforts in designing and deploying language technologies.

In 2022, I received my PhD in Computer Science at Cornell University, based at Cornell Tech in New York, NY, and advised by Yoav Artzi. Afterwards, I spent about a year in Seattle, WA at AI2 as a Young Investigator on the Mosaic team (led by Yejin Choi). In 2016, I graduated from Ohio State University with a BS in Computer Science and Engineering and a minor in Linguistics.

My email address is suhr@berkeley.edu. Before cold-emailing me, please check if your question is frequently asked. I don't have the bandwidth to reply to every email I receive, so if the answer to your question is on this page, I will not be able to reply individually. My schedule makes it difficult for me to reply to most emails in a timely manner; if I've suggested (e.g., in person) that you reach out to me, and I haven't gotten back to you yet, don't hesitate to ping me again (including a date in the subject by which you would appreciate a reply would help me prioritize your email).

News and Events
2026
April 23 Talk at University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
April 24 Talk at CMU LTI Pittsburgh, PA
June Talk at CogVL Workshop at CVPR Denver, CO
2025
October 24 Talk at BAIR Workshop on Open Research in Understanding and Advancing LLMs Berkeley, CA
October 10 Co-organizing COLM Workshop, PragLM: Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models Montreal, QC
October 10 Co-organizing COLM Workshop, Visions of Language Modeling Montreal, QC
October 7-10 Attending COLM. Check out our paper on Adaptive Parallel Reasoning (Pan et al.)! Montreal, QC
October 3-6 Workshop on Assessing and Improving the Capabilities and Safety of Agents, IVADO Thematic Semester on Autonomous LLM Agents Montreal, QC
September 26 Talk at Agentic AI Frontier Online Seminar
August 12-15 Bootcamp on the current state of agents, IVADO Thematic Semester on Autonomous LLM Agents Montreal, QC
July 22 Talk at Apple Cupertino, CA
July 19 Invited talk at ICML Workshop on Computer Use Agents Vancouver, BC
July 18 Panelist at ICML Workshop on Assessing World Models Vancouver, BC
July 14 Invited talk at Vancouver Workshop on Vision and Learning Vancouver, BC
July 12--19 Attending ICML. Check out our SWE-Gym poster on July 17! Vancouver, BC
May 9 Invited talk at BAIR-BDI LLM Agents Workshop Berkeley, CA
April 30 Invited talk at MIT NLP Seminar Cambridge, MA
March 11 Invited talk at UC Berkeley Department of Psychology Cognition Colloquium Berkeley, CA
March 6 Invited talk at Sonoma State University Engineering
February 4 Invited talk at Simons Workshop on LLMs, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Neuroscience Berkeley, CA
2024
December 14 Invited talk at NeurIPS Language Gamification Workshop Vancouver, BC
December 1-6 Attending Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Human in the Loop Learning through Grounded Interaction in Games Dagstuhl, Germany
November 28 Invited talk at Language Science Colloquium Series, Saarland University Saarbrücken, Germany
November 12-14 Attending EMNLP. Make sure to check out two papers led by Zineng and Josh! Miami, FL
November 1 Invited talk at UMass Amherst CIIR talk series virtual
October 7-9 Attending COLM Philadelphia, PA
October 10 Invited talk at Johns Hopkins CS Department Seminar (recording) Baltimore, MD
August 27 Invited talk at Simons Modern Paradigms in Generalization Boot Camp (recording) Berkeley, CA
August 16 Invited talk at ACL Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (virtual talk)
August 16 Co-organizing ACL workshop: Wordplay: When Language Meets Games Bangkok, Thailand
(hybrid)
July 18 Invited talk at SIGIR PaRiS Workshop Washington, DC
June 17 Invited talk at CVPR workshop on prompting in vision Seattle, WA
May 31 Invited talk at Netflix workshop on Personalization, Recommendation, and Search Los Gatos, CA
May ~7-11 Attending ICLR. Spotlight (Elazar et al.) and poster (Sclar et al.)! Vienna, Austria
May 2 Invited talk at CMU Agent Workshop Pittsburgh, PA
April 4 Guest speaker at Stanford NLP seminar Stanford, CA
March 29 Invited talk at OSU Linguistics Columbus, OH
2023
December 11 - 15 Attending NeurIPS. Spotlight posters on December 12 (Wu and Hu et al.) and December 14 (Suhr and Artzi)! New Orleans, LA
November 17 Invited talk at SoCalNLP Los Angeles, CA
October 2 Invited talk at ICCV workshop on Closing the Loop between Vision and Language (CLVL) virtual
July 28 Co-organized ICML workshop: TOM: Theory of Mind in Communicating Agents Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
(hybrid)
July 20 Panelist on the Language Seminar for the CogSci workshop: How does the mind discover useful abstractions? (recording) virtual
June 19 Invited talk at CVPR Workshop on Open-Domain Reasoning Under Multi-Modal Settings (O-DRUM) Vancouver, BC
April 20 Guest lecture at CMU 11-777 virtual
April 13 Guest lecture at UT Austin CS 378 virtual
March 3 Guest lecture at UW CS 447 virtual
2022
December 15 Invited talk at CoRL Workshop on Language and Robot Learning virtual
December 2 Co-organizing NeurIPS Workshop: InterNLP: Interactive Learning for NLP New Orleans, LA
(hybrid)
October 23 Invited talk at ECCV Workshop on Language for 3D Scenes virtual
October 21 Guest speaker at UW Computational Linguistics Lab virtual
September 9 Invited talk at BAIR Trust, Equity, and Grounded Language Workshop virtual
August 22 Dissertation defense (recording) New York, NY
July 15 Invited talk at NAACL Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Seattle, WA
July 14 Invited talk at SemEval Seattle, WA
May 4 Job talk at AI2 virtual
May 2 Job talk at UT Austin CS Austin, TX
April 28 Job talk at HuggingFace New York, NY
April 17 Job talk at Microsoft Research virtual
April 11 Job talk at CMU LTI Pittsburgh, PA
April 7 Job talk at University of Waterloo CS virtual
April 5 Job talk at GATech School of IC virtual
April 4 Job talk at Boston University CS virtual
March 30 Job talk at Northwestern CS virtual
March 29 Job talk at UChicago Data Science virtual
March 23 Job talk at UPenn CIS Philadelphia, PA
March 22 Job talk at Rutgers CS virtual
March 17 Job talk at Yale CS virtual
March 14 Job talk at JHU CS virtual
March 8 Job talk at UC Berkeley CS virtual
March 2 Job talk at TTIC Chicago, IL
February 28 Job talk at SFU CS virtual
February 24 Guest speaker at Stanford NLP seminar virtual
February 23 Job talk at UMass Amherst CICS virtual
February 9 Presented Effenberger et al. 2022 at SCiL virtual
January 20 Guest speaker at NRL Reasoning Lunch virtual
2021
December 9 Guest speaker at Cornell CS Colloquium Ithaca, NY
November 17 Guest speaker at NLP with Friends (recording) virtual
November 20 Tutorial at EMNLP, Crowdsourcing Beyond Annotation: Case Studies in Benchmark Data Collection (recordings) virtual
June 10 Co-organizing NAACL Workshop: VIGIL: Visually Grounded Interaction and Language virtual
May 21 Guest speaker at DeepMind NLP reading group virtual