Nick Tomlin
@nickatomlin.bsky.social
Incoming assistant professor at TTIC, current faculty fellow at NYU, and previous PhD student at Berkeley. Natural language processing. He/him.
🌐 nickatomlin.github.io
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Nick Tomlin
@nickatomlin.bsky.social
· Apr 15
Writing my first post here to announce that I've accepted an assistant professor job at TTIC! I'll be starting in Fall 2026, and recruiting students this upcoming cycle.
Until then, I'll be wrapping up the PhD at Berkeley, and this summer I'll join NYU as a CDS Faculty Fellow 🏙️
Until then, I'll be wrapping up the PhD at Berkeley, and this summer I'll join NYU as a CDS Faculty Fellow 🏙️
Two brief advertisements!
TTIC is recruiting both tenure-track and research assistant professors: ttic.edu/faculty-hiri...
NYU is recruiting faculty fellows: apply.interfolio.com/174686
Happy to chat with anyone considering either of these options
TTIC is recruiting both tenure-track and research assistant professors: ttic.edu/faculty-hiri...
NYU is recruiting faculty fellows: apply.interfolio.com/174686
Happy to chat with anyone considering either of these options
TTIC Faculty Opportunities at TTIC
ttic.edu
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Two brief advertisements!
TTIC is recruiting both tenure-track and research assistant professors: ttic.edu/faculty-hiri...
NYU is recruiting faculty fellows: apply.interfolio.com/174686
Happy to chat with anyone considering either of these options
TTIC is recruiting both tenure-track and research assistant professors: ttic.edu/faculty-hiri...
NYU is recruiting faculty fellows: apply.interfolio.com/174686
Happy to chat with anyone considering either of these options
Reposted by Nick Tomlin
FYI that UChicago CS & Stats is hiring at all levels via the Data Science Institue:
Postdoc: uchicago.infoready4.com#freeformComp...
Assistant Professor: apply.interfolio.com/174766
Associate Professor: apply.interfolio.com/174768
Postdoc: uchicago.infoready4.com#freeformComp...
Assistant Professor: apply.interfolio.com/174766
Associate Professor: apply.interfolio.com/174768
October 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
FYI that UChicago CS & Stats is hiring at all levels via the Data Science Institue:
Postdoc: uchicago.infoready4.com#freeformComp...
Assistant Professor: apply.interfolio.com/174766
Associate Professor: apply.interfolio.com/174768
Postdoc: uchicago.infoready4.com#freeformComp...
Assistant Professor: apply.interfolio.com/174766
Associate Professor: apply.interfolio.com/174768
What does it take to build a human-like user simulator? //
Jessy Lin and I wrote another blogpost on user simulators as a reward function for training interactive models, this time focused on methods + open questions:
jessylin.com/2025/09/25/u...
Jessy Lin and I wrote another blogpost on user simulators as a reward function for training interactive models, this time focused on methods + open questions:
jessylin.com/2025/09/25/u...
What does it take to build a human-like user simulator?
jessylin.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What does it take to build a human-like user simulator? //
Jessy Lin and I wrote another blogpost on user simulators as a reward function for training interactive models, this time focused on methods + open questions:
jessylin.com/2025/09/25/u...
Jessy Lin and I wrote another blogpost on user simulators as a reward function for training interactive models, this time focused on methods + open questions:
jessylin.com/2025/09/25/u...
Reposted by Nick Tomlin
Was talking to a student who wasn't sure about why one would get a PhD. So I wrote up a list of reasons!
www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/reason...
www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/reason...
Eugene Vinitsky
www.eugenevinitsky.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Was talking to a student who wasn't sure about why one would get a PhD. So I wrote up a list of reasons!
www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/reason...
www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/reason...
Reposted by Nick Tomlin
An excellent blog post about a still huge missing gap, models of humans you can actually use to study human-AI interaction: jessylin.com/2025/07/10/u...
User simulators bridge RL with real-world interaction
jessylin.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An excellent blog post about a still huge missing gap, models of humans you can actually use to study human-AI interaction: jessylin.com/2025/07/10/u...
Reposted by Nick Tomlin
We’re proud to announce three new tenure-track assistant professors joining TTIC in Fall 2026: Yossi Gandelsman, Will Merrill, and Nick Tomlin (@nickatomlin.bsky.social). Meet them here: buff.ly/JH1DFtT
June 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We’re proud to announce three new tenure-track assistant professors joining TTIC in Fall 2026: Yossi Gandelsman, Will Merrill, and Nick Tomlin (@nickatomlin.bsky.social). Meet them here: buff.ly/JH1DFtT
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Happy to announce the first workshop on Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models — PragLM @ COLM 2025! 🎉
How do LLMs engage in pragmatic reasoning, and what core pragmatic capacities remain beyond their reach?
🌐 sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/praglm/
📅 Submit by June 23rd
How do LLMs engage in pragmatic reasoning, and what core pragmatic capacities remain beyond their reach?
🌐 sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/praglm/
📅 Submit by June 23rd
PragLM @ COLM '25
IMPORTANT DATES
sites.google.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I'm particularly fond of this new benchmark paper we wrote, which aims to scalably evaluate whether language models can generalize to arbitrary new tasks. The core idea is to use LLMs to generate new games, and then evaluate whether LLMs can play those games
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2505.07215
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2505.07215
May 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I'm particularly fond of this new benchmark paper we wrote, which aims to scalably evaluate whether language models can generalize to arbitrary new tasks. The core idea is to use LLMs to generate new games, and then evaluate whether LLMs can play those games
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2505.07215
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2505.07215
Reposted by Nick Tomlin
I might be able to hire a postdoc for this fall in computational linguistics at UT Austin. Topics in the general LLM + cognitive space (particularly reasoning, chain of thought, LLMs + code) and LLM + linguistic space. If this could be of interest, feel free to get in touch!
April 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I might be able to hire a postdoc for this fall in computational linguistics at UT Austin. Topics in the general LLM + cognitive space (particularly reasoning, chain of thought, LLMs + code) and LLM + linguistic space. If this could be of interest, feel free to get in touch!
Writing my first post here to announce that I've accepted an assistant professor job at TTIC! I'll be starting in Fall 2026, and recruiting students this upcoming cycle.
Until then, I'll be wrapping up the PhD at Berkeley, and this summer I'll join NYU as a CDS Faculty Fellow 🏙️
Until then, I'll be wrapping up the PhD at Berkeley, and this summer I'll join NYU as a CDS Faculty Fellow 🏙️
April 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Writing my first post here to announce that I've accepted an assistant professor job at TTIC! I'll be starting in Fall 2026, and recruiting students this upcoming cycle.
Until then, I'll be wrapping up the PhD at Berkeley, and this summer I'll join NYU as a CDS Faculty Fellow 🏙️
Until then, I'll be wrapping up the PhD at Berkeley, and this summer I'll join NYU as a CDS Faculty Fellow 🏙️