PeopleofSuperintelligence

Lab leader

Carissa Schoenick

Carissa Schoenick is Ai2’s Senior Director of Strategic Development, with a career that spans AI science question answering, collaborative games, open vision-language models, and language-model transparency. She served as program manager for Project Aristo in 2015 and coauthored papers on the Allen AI Science Challenge in 2016 and ARC in 2018. In 2019, she coauthored an Aristo report on the system’s score above 90 percent on eighth-grade science questions; in 2021, she coauthored a paper on Iconary, a collaborative drawing-and-guessing game. She coauthored the 2024 paper introducing Molmo, an open vision-language model family, and the 2025 OLMoTrace system for tracing model outputs to training data.

Works
16
Citations
751
h-index
7

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2015

    Managing Project Aristo

    In 2015, she is program manager for Ai2’s Project Aristo, an AI system built to answer science questions.

  2. 2016

    An AI science challenge

    In 2016, she coauthors a paper describing the Allen AI Science Challenge and the Kaggle competition it leads to.

  3. 2018

    Building the ARC dataset

    In 2018, she coauthors the ARC paper, which presents a science-question set, a text corpus, and baselines for advanced question answering.

  4. 2019

    Aristo exceeds 90 percent

    In 2019, she coauthors the Aristo project report, which says the system scores over 90 percent on the Grade 8 New York Regents exam’s non-diagram multiple-choice questions.

  5. 2021

    Testing the Iconary game

    In 2021, she coauthors a paper on Iconary, a collaborative drawing-and-guessing game where a Drawer composes an icon scene and a Guesser identifies its phrase.

  6. 2024

    Molmo and PixMo

    In 2024, she coauthors Molmo and PixMo, introducing Molmo as an open family of vision-language models and PixMo as its datasets.

  7. 2025

    Tracing model outputs

    In 2025, she coauthors OLMoTrace, a fully open-source system that traces language-model outputs to training data in real time.

  8. As of October 2026

    Senior Director at Ai2

    As of October 2026, she is Ai2’s Senior Director of Strategic Development and joins a panel on artificial intelligence and its effects on jobs and industries.

Most-cited works

  1. Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge2018 · 461 citationsWith Ashish Sabharwal and Oren Etzioni
  2. From 'F' to 'A' on the N.Y. Regents Science Exams: An Overview of the Aristo Project2019 · 92 citationsWith Ashish Sabharwal and Oren Etzioni
  3. Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models2025 · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 66 citationsWith Ali Farhadi, Andrew Head, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Caitlin Wittlif, Chris Callison-Burch and Eli VanderBilt
  4. Moving beyond the Turing Test with the Allen AI Science Challenge2017 · Communications of the ACM · 54 citationsWith Oren Etzioni
  5. From F to A on the New York Regents Science Exams — An Overview of the Aristo Project2020 · AI Magazine · 27 citationsWith Ashish Sabharwal and Oren Etzioni

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 32%Includes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 2% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  2. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  3. 44% of AI career moves go from one university to anotherIncludes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). We estimate how 13,335 AI career moves link universities, companies, labs and government research centers, with net flows and the most common paths.
  4. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1961 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Artificial Intelligence Meets Its Latest Nemesis: Eighth Grade Science Questions vice.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. Moving Beyond the Turing Test with the Allen AI Science Challenge arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. From 'F' to 'A' on the N.Y. Regents Science Exams: An Overview of the Aristo Project arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. Iconary: A Pictionary-Based Game for Testing Multimodal Communication with Drawings and Text arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  7. OLMoTrace: Tracing Language Model Outputs Back to Trillions of Training Tokens aclanthology.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  8. 2026 Washington Economics Symposium | College of Business and Economics | Western Washington University cbe.wwu.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.