PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Alane Suhr

Alane Suhr is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley who studies how AI systems can use language to work with people. Her work included a 2017 visual reasoning dataset and a 2019 corpus that tested whether captions were true of photographs. She completed a computer science PhD at Cornell in 2022, worked on the Allen Institute for AI's Mosaic team, and joined Berkeley in July 2023. Her dissertation shared the 2022 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award and received an honorable mention for the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. In 2025, she coauthored SWE-Gym, an environment for training software engineering agents.

Works
50
Citations
1,525
h-index
13

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 27 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2016

    Computer science at Ohio State

    She earns a BS in computer science and engineering with a minor in linguistics at Ohio State University in 2016.

  2. 2017

    A visual reasoning corpus

    With Mike Lewis, James Yeh, and Yoav Artzi, she coauthors “A Corpus of Natural Language for Visual Reasoning” in 2017. Its 92,244 examples pair natural language with synthetic images and require reasoning about visual scenes and sets.

  3. 2019

    Reasoning about photographs

    In 2019, she coauthors a corpus of 107,292 examples that pair English sentences with photographs. The task asks a system to decide whether a caption is true of two photographs, including reasoning about quantities and relationships.

  4. 2019

    Instructions in collaborative games

    She coauthors “Executing Instructions in Situated Collaborative Interactions” in 2019. The work builds a game environment for people and systems to act together, with methods for following instructions that contain several goals and recovering from errors.

  5. 2022

    A doctorate and AI2 research

    In 2022, she completes a computer science PhD at Cornell University, based at Cornell Tech in New York and advised by Yoav Artzi. After her doctorate, she spends about a year as a Young Investigator on the Allen Institute for AI's Mosaic team in Seattle, led by Yejin Choi.

  6. 2022

    Two dissertation honours

    Her dissertation, “Reasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systems,” receives the 2022 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award for algorithms that learn language through interaction. She shares the award with Erik Wijmans and receives an honorable mention for the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

  7. July 2023

    Joining Berkeley EECS

    In July 2023, she joins UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences as an assistant professor.

  8. 2025

    Training agents with SWE-Gym

    She coauthors the ICML 2025 paper “Training Software Engineering Agents and Verifiers with SWE-Gym.” The environment supplies 2,438 Python tasks with runnable code, tests, and instructions in natural language to train language model agents for software engineering.

  9. 2026

    Teaching natural language processing

    In 2026, she continues as an assistant professor in UC Berkeley's Division of Computer Science, EECS, and teaches natural language processing. Her research builds systems that learn and use language while collaborating with people.

Career

  1. NowUniversity of California, BerkeleyAssistant Professor of Computer Science
  2. 2022–2023Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Young Investigator

Education

  1. 2022Cornell UniversityPhD in Computer Science
  2. 2016Ohio State UniversityBS in Computer Science and Engineering

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Alane Suhr | EECS at UC Berkeley www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. A Corpus of Natural Language for Visual Reasoning - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. A Corpus for Reasoning about Natural Language Grounded in Photographs - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. Executing Instructions in Situated Collaborative Interactions - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. Alane Suhr alanesuhr.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award - ACM SIGAI sigai.acm.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  7. Alane Suhr receives honorable mention for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award - EECS at Berkeley eecs.berkeley.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  8. Training Software Engineering Agents and Verifiers with SWE-Gym proceedings.mlr.press. Checked 27 October 2026.
  9. Alane Suhr | Research UC Berkeley vcresearch.berkeley.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.