Biography:Hanna Hajishirzi
Hannaneh Hajishirzi is an Iranian-American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing.[1] She is Torode Family Professor in Computer Science & Engineering in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, head of the H2Lab in the Allen School, and a senior director of natural language processing in the Allen Institute for AI.[2]
Education and career
After a bachelor's degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Hajishirzi completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 2011, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[3] Her dissertation, Action-Centered Reasoning for Probabilistic Dynamic Systems, was supervised by Eyal Amir.[4]
After postdoctoral research at Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Hajishirzi joined the University of Washington in 2012, as a research scientist in electrical engineering. In 2015 she became a research assistant professor in electrical engineering. She obtained a regular-rank assistant professorship in 2018, at the same time becoming an AI Fellow in the Allen Institute for AI, where she became a senior director of research in 2021. She was promoted to associate professor in 2022 and to full professor in 2025.[3]
Recognition
Hajishirzi was named as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2025, "for significant contributions to question answering, scientific applications, multimodal artificial intelligence, and fully open language models".[5]
Personal life
Hajishirzi is married to Ali Farhadi, the CEO of the Allen Institute for AI.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bishop, Todd (December 9, 2024), "Uncommon Thinkers: Hanna Hajishirzi’s open approach to AI challenges the industry’s norms", GeekWire, https://www.geekwire.com/2024/uncommon-thinkers-hanna-hajishirzis-open-approach-to-ai-challenges-the-industrys-norms/, retrieved 2026-02-23
- ↑ "Hannaneh Hajishirzi", Faculty (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering), https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/hannaneh-hajishirzi/, retrieved 2026-02-23
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Curriculum vitae, June 2025, https://hannaneh.ai/CV_Hanna.pdf, retrieved 2026-02-23
- ↑ Hanna Hajishirzi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ ACL Fellows 2025, Association for Computational Linguistics, https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-fellows-2025, retrieved 2026-02-23
External links
- Personal home page
- H2 Lab
- Hanna Hajishirzi publications indexed by Google Scholar
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