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Percy Liang
Stanford UniversityProfessor
Together AICo-founder
Liang's Stanford group coined the term "foundation models" and built HELM and SQuAD, benchmarks that shaped how language models are evaluated. His earlier work advanced semantic parsing.
Career & education
Current rolesStanford University2026-presentProfessorTogether AI2022-presentCo-founder
Stanford University2026-presentTogether AI2022-presentPreviouslyStanford University2012-2019Assistant Professor
Google2012-2012Postdoc
Stanford University2012-2019Google2012-2012Education
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.
citations179,496As of Nov 1, '26
citations+8,625Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
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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