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Rishi Bommasani
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford University
- Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford University12
Rishi Bommasani is a senior research scholar at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), researching the societal and economic impact of frontier AI. Bommasani received a PhD in computer science from Stanford, advised by Percy Liang and Dan Jurafsky. Bommasani is the second-listed author of the HELM paper on holistic evaluation of language models and first author of "On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models," the 2021 report that called models trained on broad data at scale and adapted to many tasks foundation models.1234
At a glance
- Current role
- Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
- Company
- Stanford University
- Sector
- University
- Education
- Cornell, Stanford
- Work listed
- 2
- Honors
- 3
- Sources cited
- 6
- Profile reviewed
Research
Rishi Bommasani studies the societal and economic impact of frontier AI. As a Stanford PhD student advised by Percy Liang and Dan Jurafsky, Bommasani was first author of the 2021 report "On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models," and was one of the joint lead authors of HELM, the 2022 framework for holistic evaluation of language models.2543
Bommasani was also first author of the Foundation Model Transparency Index, first published in October 2023, which scores how much information foundation model developers disclose; the 2023 and 2024 editions appeared in Transactions on Machine Learning Research, with the 2023 index named an outstanding paper. Other recent work examines third-party evaluation and flaw disclosure for general-purpose AI and reporting of train-test overlap.56
Career and policy work
Bommasani completed a B.A. and M.S. at Cornell University advised by Claire Cardie, then a Stanford PhD from 2020 to 2025, and is now a senior research scholar at Stanford HAI. Bommasani's CV lists co-founding the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models and founding Stanford AI Policy.51
Bommasani was lead author of the California Report on Frontier AI Policy, served as an independent expert chair for the EU AI Act Code of Practice, and is an author of the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI.25
Work and contributions
HELM (Holistic Evaluation of Language Models) Published research
Second-listed author, after Percy Liang, of the HELM paper (2022), which introduced Stanford CRFM's framework for holistic evaluation of language models.3
On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models Published research
First author of the 2021 report, which names models trained on broad data at scale and adapted to many downstream tasks "foundation models" and surveys their opportunities and risks.4
Timeline
- Completed undergraduate degrees in computer science and mathematics at Cornell University.5
- Began a PhD in computer science at Stanford University.5
- Posted "On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models" as first author.4
- Co-led the paper introducing HELM, the Holistic Evaluation of Language Models.35
- Posted the first Foundation Model Transparency Index as first author.6
- Completed a PhD in computer science at Stanford University.5
Honors and recognition
Where they work
- Stanford University 40 people in the wiki
Related people
- Yulia TsvetkovAlso at Stanford University
- Rohan TaoriAlso at Stanford University
- Percy LiangAlso at Stanford University
- Douwe KielaAlso at Stanford University
- Tatsunori HashimotoAlso at Stanford University
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