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# University of Washington

University · UW [Seattle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/seattle/), [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/)in the agglomeration of [Seattle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/seattle/)

- [Website](https://www.washington.edu)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/00cvxb145)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I201448701)

[**206** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/works/) · [**280** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/authors/) · [**158,423** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/works/) · [**47,498** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/works/)

## People (280)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at University of Washington: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (117)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/) — current · 2010–2026 on 251 papers · employment (ORCID) · 69 papers here · 48,223 citations
- [Omer Levy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-levy/) — 2017–2023 on 20 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 18 papers here · 35,123 citations
- [Yejin Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yejin-choi/) — 2014–2025 on 259 papers · employment (ORCID) · 48 papers here · 27,882 citations
- [Noah A. Smith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-a-smith/) — 2015–2025 on 215 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 61 papers here · 27,685 citations
- [Rowan Zellers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rowan-zellers/) — 2016–2022 on 25 papers · 5 papers here · 17,217 citations
- [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/) — current · 2013–2026 on 192 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 36 papers here · 20,600 citations
- [Sewon Min](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sewon-min/) — 2017–2025 on 55 papers · 11 papers here · 11,266 citations
- [Julian Michael](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-michael/) — 2016–2023 on 22 papers · 7 papers here · 11,305 citations
- [Scott Lundberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-lundberg/) — 2016–2021 on 15 papers · 2 papers here · 11,531 citations
- [Luheng He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luheng-he/) — 2015–2021 on 10 papers · 10 papers here · 12,643 citations
- [Daniel S. Weld](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-s-weld/) — current · 1988–2026 on 251 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 9 papers here · 9,423 citations
- [Yi Luan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-luan/) — 2014–2022 on 16 papers · 9 papers here · 8,416 citations
- [Oren Etzioni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oren-etzioni/) — current · 1991–2025 on 141 papers · 8 papers here · 8,027 citations
- [Ali Farhadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-farhadi/) — current · 2013–2026 on 131 papers · 7 papers here · 9,418 citations
- [Kenton Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenton-lee/) — 2014–2021 on 15 papers · 13 papers here · 11,852 citations
- [Ranjay Krishna](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ranjay-krishna/) — current · 2022–2026 on 98 papers · 3 papers here · 10,552 citations
- [Ludwig Schmidt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ludwig-schmidt/) — current · 2021–2025 on 26 papers · 5 papers here · 7,451 citations
- [Alan Ritter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-ritter/) — 2008–2021 on 14 papers · 16 papers here · 9,756 citations
- [Maarten Sap](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-sap/) — 2017–2024 on 46 papers · education (ORCID) · education (Wikidata) · 12 papers here · 9,429 citations
- [Pang Wei Koh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pang-wei-koh/) — current · 2023–2026 on 31 papers · 2 papers here · 6,960 citations
- [Eunsol Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eunsol-choi/) — 2013–2024 on 25 papers · education (ORCID) · 11 papers here · 7,832 citations
- [Nelson F. Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nelson-f-liu/) — 2016–2019 on 7 papers · 7 papers here · 7,322 citations
- [Ari Holtzman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ari-holtzman/) — 2017–2025 on 32 papers · education (Wikidata) · 8 papers here · 5,148 citations
- [Suchin Gururangan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/suchin-gururangan/) — 2018–2024 on 28 papers · 3 papers here · 4,028 citations
- [Ronan Le Bras](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronan-le-bras/) — 2020–2023 on 15 papers · 12 papers here · 6,586 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (163)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Percy Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/percy-liang/) — 2018–2023 on 4 papers · 32 papers here · 38,678 citations
- [Machel Reid](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/machel-reid/) — 2021–2024 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 9,524 citations
- [Mike Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mike-lewis/) — current · 2015–2026 on 7 papers · 21 papers here · 21,972 citations
- [Veselin Stoyanov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/veselin-stoyanov/) — 2016–2023 on 2 papers · 11 papers here · 19,172 citations
- [Wen-tau Yih](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-tau-yih/) — current · 2016–2026 on 12 papers · 23 papers here · 18,202 citations
- [Jinhyuk Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinhyuk-lee/) — 2019–2020 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 13,042 citations
- [Danqi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danqi-chen/) — 2019 on 2 papers · 21 papers here · 27,842 citations
- [John Wieting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-wieting/) — 2018–2021 on 2 papers · 8 papers here · 9,883 citations
- [Jianfeng Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianfeng-gao/) — 2017–2024 on 6 papers · 31 papers here · 30,685 citations
- [Fei Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-xia/) — current · 2024–2026 on 3 papers · 4 papers here · 15,089 citations
- [Felix Hill](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/felix-hill/) — 2018 on 4 papers · 10 papers here · 14,436 citations
- [Dan Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/) — 2021 on 2 papers · 33 papers here · 20,732 citations
- [Hao Fang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-fang/) — 2015–2024 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 3,380 citations
- [Chris Brockett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-brockett/) — 2017–2024 on 6 papers · 10 papers here · 8,615 citations
- [Sebastian Riedel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-riedel/) — 2014–2023 on 3 papers · 17 papers here · 18,749 citations
- [Sebastian Ruder](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-ruder/) — current · 2023–2026 on 3 papers · 19 papers here · 16,227 citations
- [Kai-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-wei-chang/) — 2023–2024 on 3 papers · 28 papers here · 14,938 citations
- [Sameer Singh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sameer-singh/) — 2014–2022 on 21 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 14 papers here · 8,012 citations
- [Caiming Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiming-xiong/) — 2020–2022 on 2 papers · 21 papers here · 16,209 citations
- [Tianxiao Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianxiao-shen/) — 2022–2023 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 2,103 citations
- [Tatsunori Hashimoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatsunori-hashimoto/) — 2022–2023 on 2 papers · 11 papers here · 9,637 citations
- [Chaitanya Malaviya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaitanya-malaviya/) — 2019–2024 on 3 papers · 6 papers here · 4,181 citations
- [Eric Wallace](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-wallace/) — 2021 on 2 papers · 12 papers here · 11,062 citations
- [Bill Dolan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-dolan/) — 2017–2021 on 4 papers · 11 papers here · 8,455 citations
- [Dan Roth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/) — 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 32 papers here · 16,275 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 280 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/authors/)

## Works in our library (206)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [SciPy 1.0 — Fundamental Algorithms for Scientific Computing in Python](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/virtanen-2019-scipy-1-0-fundamental-algorithms/) — Pauli Virtanen, Ralf Gommers, Travis E. Oliphant, et al. · 2019 · 38,317 citations
- [BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lewis-2020-bart-denoising-sequence-sequence-pre/) — Mike Lewis, Yinhan Liu, Naman Goyal, et al. · 2020 · 12,752 citations
- [A Unified Approach to Interpreting Model Predictions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lundberg-2017-unified-approach-interpreting-model-predictions/) — Scott Lundberg, Su-In Lee · 2017 · 8,086 citations
- [GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Natural Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2018-glue-multi-task-benchmark-analysis/) — Alex Wang, Amanpreet Singh, Julian Michael, et al. · 2018 · 7,141 citations
- [Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/karpukhin-2020-dense-passage-retrieval-open-domain/) — Vladimir Karpukhin, Barlas Oguz, Sewon Min, et al. · 2020 · 5,370 citations
- [TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/joshi-2017-triviaqa-large-scale-distantly-supervised/) — Mandar Joshi, Eunsol Choi, Daniel Weld, et al. · 2017 · 3,204 citations
- [SpanBERT: Improving Pre-training by Representing and Predicting Spans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/joshi-2019-spanbert-improving-pre-training-representing/) — Mandar Joshi, Danqi Chen, Yinhan Liu, et al. · 2019 · 2,580 citations
- [SuperGLUE: A Stickier Benchmark for General-Purpose Language Understanding Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2019-superglue-stickier-benchmark-general-purpose/) — Alex Wang, Yada Pruksachatkun, Nikita Nangia, et al. · 2019 · 2,187 citations
- [Extracting Product Features and Opinions from Reviews](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/popescu-2005-extracting-product-features-opinions-reviews/) — Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni · 2005 · 1,904 citations
- [Oscar: Object-Semantics Aligned Pre-training for Vision-Language Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2020-oscar-object-semantics-aligned-pre/) — Xiujun Li, Xi Yin, Chunyuan Li, et al. · 2020 · 1,827 citations
- [CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hessel-2021-clipscore-reference-free-evaluation-metric/) — Jack Hessel, Ari Holtzman, Maxwell Forbes, et al. · 2021 · 1,498 citations
- [Open Information Extraction from the Web](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banko-2007-open-information-extraction-web/) — Michele Banko, Michael J. Cafarella, Stephen Soderland, et al. · 2007 · 1,459 citations
- [Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: An Experimental Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ritter-2011-named-entity-recognition-tweets-experimental/) — Alan Ritter, Sam Clark, Mausam, et al. · 2011 · 1,451 citations
- [Dialogue Act Modeling for Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Conversational Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stolcke-2000-dialogue-act-modeling-automatic-tagging/) — Andreas Stolcke, Klaus Ries, Noah Coccaro, et al. · 2000 · 1,447 citations
- [Rethinking the Role of Demonstrations: What Makes In-Context Learning Work?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/min-2022-rethinking-role-demonstrations-what-makes/) — Sewon Min, Xinxi Lyu, Ari Holtzman, et al. · 2022 · 1,423 citations
- [Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bender-2020-climbing-nlu-meaning-form-understanding/) — Emily M. Bender, Alexander Koller · 2020 · 1,371 citations
- [TVM: An Automated End-to-End Optimizing Compiler for Deep Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2018-tvm-automated-end-end-optimizing/) — Tianqi Chen, Thierry Moreau, Ziheng Jiang, et al. · 2018 · 1,371 citations
- [COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bosselut-2019-comet-commonsense-transformers-automatic-knowledge/) — Antoine Bosselut, Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap, et al. · 2019 · 1,282 citations
- [RealToxicityPrompts: Evaluating Neural Toxic Degeneration in Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gehman-2020-realtoxicityprompts-evaluating-neural-toxic-degeneration/) — Samuel Gehman, Suchin Gururangan, Maarten Sap, et al. · 2020 · 1,277 citations
- [End-to-end Neural Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2017-end-end-neural-coreference-resolution/) — Kenton Lee, Luheng He, Mike Lewis, et al. · 2017 · 1,277 citations
- [PIQA: Reasoning about Physical Commonsense in Natural Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bisk-2019-piqa-reasoning-about-physical-commonsense/) — Yonatan Bisk, Rowan Zellers, Ronan Le Bras, et al. · 2019 · 1,218 citations
- ["Why Should I Trust You?": Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ribeiro-2016-why-should-i-trust-explaining/) — Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Sameer Singh, Carlos Guestrin · 2016 · 1,148 citations
- [The Risk of Racial Bias in Hate Speech Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sap-2019-risk-racial-bias-hate-speech/) — Maarten Sap, Dallas Card, Saadia Gabriel, et al. · 2019 · 1,148 citations
- [SemEval-2016 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakov-2016-semeval-2016-task-4-sentiment/) — Preslav Nakov, Alan Ritter, Sara Rosenthal, et al. · 2016 · 1,081 citations
- [Truth of Varying Shades: Analyzing Language in Fake News and Political Fact-Checking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rashkin-2017-truth-varying-shades-analyzing-language/) — Hannah Rashkin, Eunsol Choi, Jin Yea Jang, et al. · 2017 · 1,072 citations

[See all 206 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/works/)

## Topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Language models & pretraining (40)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning (20)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Question answering (19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Coreference resolution (16)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Semantic role labeling (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Information retrieval & search (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Information extraction (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Text generation (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Dialogue systems (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Vision & language (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Named entity recognition (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/)

**19 more topics**

[Summarization (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Machine translation (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Sentiment & emotion (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Discourse analysis (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Speech & spoken language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Efficient models & compression (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Implicature (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Dependency parsing (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Universal Dependencies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

## Fields

[Natural language processing (112)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Linguistics & languages (48)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [AI & machine learning (17)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/ai/) · [Machine translation (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [Mathematics & statistics (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Computing & GPUs (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computing/) · [Vision, graphics & robotics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/vision-robotics/)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence 97](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) [Carnegie Mellon University 26](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [Stanford University 18](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) [Google 17](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Meta 17](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) [Microsoft 15](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) [Princeton University 8](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) [Johns Hopkins University 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) [University of Edinburgh 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) [Cornell University 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) [Columbia University 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/)

## Parent and units

**Units** Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington Bothell University of Washington Tacoma

**Related** Cancer Consortium Harborview Medical Center Seattle Children's Hospital University of Washington Medical Center VA Puget Sound Health Care System

From the Research Organization Registry (ROR); those with a page here are linked.

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at University of Washington; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.