University of Amsterdam
Eric ZelikmanCo-founder and CEO · Humans&Researcher↗
Researcher
Maarten Bosma
Humans&Member of Technical Staff
Bosma helped establish instruction tuning, a method that teaches language models to follow many kinds of written requests. He also co-authored work showing that prompting models to reason step by step improves their answers. After a sabbatical that included temporary ordination at a Thai forest monastery, he joined Humans&.
Career & education
Current roleHumans&Feb 2026-presentMember of Technical Staff
Humans&Feb 2026-presentPreviously
Microsoft AIMar 2024-Oct 2024Principal Member of Technical Staff
Inflection AIApr 2022-Mar 2024Founding Member of Technical Staff
GoogleAug 2016-Apr 2022Research Engineer, Google Brain
Microsoft AIMar 2024-Oct 2024Inflection AIApr 2022-Mar 2024GoogleAug 2016-Apr 2022Education
Work 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.
citations82,423As of Oct 20, '26
citations+6,791Since last snapshot, Aug 8, '26
Selected contributions
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
With Jason Wei, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Brian Ichter, Fei Xia, Ed H. Chi, Quoc V. Le and others ·Showed that examples with reasoning steps can help language models solve harder problems.
PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
With Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Jacob Devlin, Gaurav Mishra, Adam Roberts, Paul Barham, Hyung Won Chung and others ·Presented PaLM, a large language model demonstrating gains in reasoning, translation and coding.
Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
With Jason Wei, Yi Tay, Rishi Bommasani, Colin Raffel, Barret Zoph, Sebastian Borgeaud, Dani Yogatama and others ·Examined abilities that appeared in larger language models but were absent in smaller ones.
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