Jacob Andreas
X-Window Consortium Professor and Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Who they work with
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,
Publications
- Mu, J., and Andreas, J. (2020). Compositional Explanations of Neurons. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
- Akyürek, E., Akyürek, A. F., Andreas, J. (2021). Learning to recombine and resample data for compositional generalization. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
- Semantic Machines, Andreas, J., Bufe, J., Burkett, D., Chen, C., et al. (2020). Task-Oriented Dialogue as Dataflow Synthesis. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).
Media
April 2, 2020: MIT News, Teaching machines to reason about what they see.
October 1, 2020: MIT News, Anticipating heart failure with machine learning.