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. ^ a b Bishop, Todd (December 9, 2024), "Uncommon Thinkers: Hanna Hajishirzi's open approach to AI challenges the industry's norms", GeekWire, retrieved 2026-02-23
  2. ^ "Hannaneh Hajishirzi", Faculty, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, retrieved 2026-02-23
  3. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), June 2025, retrieved 2026-02-23
  4. ^ Hanna Hajishirzi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ ACL Fellows 2025, Association for Computational Linguistics, retrieved 2026-02-23
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