# Graham Neubig Associate professor at the **Language Technologies Institute** (LTI) at Carnegie Mellon University, and co-founder + Chief Scientist of [[OpenHands]] (All Hands AI). Based in Pittsburgh, PA. Self-described on X as: *"Associate professor @LTIatCMU. Co-founder/chief scientist @OpenHandsDev. I mostly work on modeling language."* The bridge figure between modern NLP academic research and the open-source agent stack — his CMU lab produces papers that feed directly into OpenHands' design. ## Research focus - Natural language processing — machine translation, text generation, neural language modeling - Code generation and software-engineering agents - Program-aided reasoning and tool-use - Benchmarking and evaluation of LLMs on realistic tasks ## Notable papers (by citation) - **"Pre-train, Prompt, and Predict: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Methods in NLP"** (2021) — ~8,475 citations; the canonical survey of the prompting era - **"WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents"** (2023, ICLR 2024) — ~1,565 citations; the benchmark [[Webwright]] competes on - **"PAL: Program-aided Language Models"** (2022, ICML 2023) — ~1,704 citations; foundational for tool-augmented reasoning - **"How can we know what language models know?"** (2020, TACL) — ~1,962 citations - **"Are Sixteen Heads Really Better than One?"** (2019, NeurIPS) — ~1,742 citations; early attention-head pruning work ## Lab **NeuLab** at CMU LTI. Mix of PhD students and visiting researchers; output spans MT, code, agents, and evaluation. ## OpenHands connection Co-founder + Chief Scientist; sets the research direction for the open-source agent platform. The CMU pipeline of agent-related research (WebArena, code generation, benchmarks) flows naturally into OpenHands as the productionized substrate. ## Why he's interesting - One of the few academics with serious open-source agent infrastructure shipping under his name - The WebArena → OpenHands progression is a clean case study in research-to-product - Strong public stance on openness (manifesto, MIT license, public benchmarks) — useful counterweight when reading closed-lab announcements ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Graham Neubig]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Graham Neubig]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[OpenHands]] - [[Webwright]] - [[AI Agents]] ## References - Personal site: https://www.phontron.com/ - X: https://x.com/gneubig - GitHub: https://github.com/neubig - Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wlosgkoAAAAJ - CMU LTI: https://lti.cs.cmu.edu/