Alane Suhr
Assistant Professor
Berkeley EECS / BAIR
8052 Berkeley Way West
2121 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
publications Berkeley NLP
About
Hi! I'm Alane Suhr (/əˈleɪn ˈsuəɹ/), an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley EECS.
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 research spans natural language processing, machine learning, and computer vision. I build systems that use language to interact with people, e.g., in collaborative interactions (like CerealBar). I design models and datasets that address and represent problems in language grounding (e.g., NLVR). I also develop learning algorithms for systems that learn language through interaction.
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.
News and Events
| 2025 | ||
| June 25 | Talk at Apple | Cupertino, CA |
| July 19 | Invited talk at ICML Workshop on Computer Use Agents | Vancouver, BC |
| August 12-15 | Bootcamp on the current state of agents, IVADO Thematic Semester on Autonomous LLM Agents | Montreal, QC |
| October 10 | Co-organizing COLM Workshop, Visions of Language Modeling | Montreal, QC |
| October 10 | Co-organizing COLM Workshop, PragLM: Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models | Montreal, QC |
| May 9 | Invited talk at BAIR-BDI LLM Agents Workshop | Berkeley, CA |
| April 30 | Invited talk at MIT NLP Seminar | Cambridge, MA |
| 2025 | ||
| 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 |