NYU's Tal Linzen takes leave to join Google, building new Gemini evaluations
tallinzen · x · 2026-09-25
Well-known NLP/LLM researcher Tal Linzen announced he is on leave from NYU this year, spending more of his time at Google developing new ways to evaluate Gemini. He remains NYC-based and checks in on his NYU group regularly.
His current research interests: keeping LLMs useful and understandable by humans, and making them more useful and reliable for scientific research.
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