Stanford University
Tsinghua University
Myle OttMember of Technical Staff · Thinking Machines LabResearcher↗2 shared research fields
Both at Thinking Machines Lab
Researcher · Academic
Danqi Chen
Thinking Machines LabMember of Technical Staff
Princeton UniversityAssociate Professor (on sabbatical)
Chen helped make open-domain question answering practical by combining search over Wikipedia with neural reading comprehension. Her research now explores retrieval-augmented language models that can consult external evidence, improving their knowledge, adaptability and ability to attribute answers.
Career & education
Current rolesThinking Machines Lab2026-presentMember of Technical Staff
Thinking Machines Lab2026-presentAssociate Professor (on sabbatical)
Previously
MetaUntil 2019Visiting Scientist, FAIR
MetaUntil 2019Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations104,697As of Oct 14, '26
Selected contributions
RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
With Yinhan Liu, Myle Ott, Naman Goyal, Jingfei Du, Mandar Joshi, Omer Levy, Mike Lewis and others ·Showed that better training choices could improve BERT without changing its core architecture.
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