Jacob Andreas

Jacob Andreas is the X-Window Consortium Professor and assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research aims to understand the computational foundations of efficient language learning, and build general-purpose intelligent systems that can communicate effectively with humans and learn from human guidance. He earned a BS from Columbia University and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Churchill Scholar. He earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Employment

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assistant Professor, 2019–present.
• Microsoft Senior Researcher, 2018–present.
• Semantic Machines Research Scientist, 2014–2018.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley Doctor of Philosophy, 2013–2018. Advisor: Dan Klein.
• University of Cambridge Master of Philosophy (with distinction), 2012–2013. Advisor: Stephen Clark.
• Columbia University in the City of New York Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude), 2008–2012. Thesis advisor: Michael Collins.