Sasha Rush
Also known as Alexander M. Rush, Alexander Rush
ML researcher; former Harvard and Cornell professor who worked at Hugging Face and Cursor.
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- Sasha Rush (Alexander M.
- Rush) is a machine-learning researcher, programmer and blogger in New York.
- Rush was an assistant professor of computer science at Harvard from 2015 to 2019, then an associate professor at Cornell.
- Rush worked as a researcher at Hugging Face, building open-source LLMs, and at Cursor, on the Composer series of coding models.
- Rush helped start the Conference on Language Modeling and was a General Chair of ICLR.
Key facts
- Education
- PhD in computer science, MIT (2014), advised by Michael Collins; BA in computer science, Harvard (2007)2
- Academic posts
- Assistant professor, Harvard (2015 to 2019); associate professor, Cornell (from 2019)2
- Industry
- Hugging Face (from 2019); Cursor, on the Composer models1
- Community
- Helped start the Conference on Language Modeling; General Chair of ICLR1
- Awards
- Sloan Fellowship (2021); NSF CAREER award2
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