PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Danqi Chen

Also known as 陈丹琦

Danqi Chen is a computer scientist whose AI work centers on natural language processing, reading comprehension and question answering. She earned a computer-science degree at Tsinghua, completed a Stanford doctorate and joined Princeton in 2019. Her papers examined CNN/Daily Mail reading comprehension in 2016 and open-domain question answering from Wikipedia in 2017; she received Stanford’s 2019 Arthur Samuel thesis award, a Sloan Research Fellowship and the 2022 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year award. As of October 2026, she is an associate professor at Princeton, co-leads the Princeton NLP Group and serves as associate director of Princeton Language and Intelligence.

Timeline

  1. 2012

    A Tsinghua computer science degree

    She earns a B.E. in computer science from Tsinghua University in 2012.

  2. 2016–2017

    Reading comprehension and Wikipedia QA

    In 2016, she, Jason Bolton and Christopher D. Manning examine the CNN/Daily Mail reading-comprehension task. In 2017, she, Adam Fisch, Jason Weston and Antoine Bordes propose answering open-domain questions from Wikipedia.

  3. 2018

    A Stanford computer-science doctorate

    She completes her computer-science Ph.D. at Stanford in 2018 with the thesis Neural Reading Comprehension and Beyond.

  4. 2019

    A thesis award and Princeton role

    She receives Stanford’s 2019 Arthur Samuel Best Doctoral Thesis Award. In 2019, she joins Princeton’s computer-science department as an assistant professor after visiting Facebook AI Research and the University of Washington.

  5. 2022

    Two AI research awards

    She receives a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2022 and a 2022 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year award for her work on natural language processing and machine learning.

  6. 2025–2026

    A year at Thinking Machines Lab

    She spends academic year 2025–2026 as a member of technical staff at Thinking Machines Lab. Her earlier research-scientist roles include Facebook AI Research and Google DeepMind.

  7. As of October 2026

    Princeton NLP leadership

    She is an associate professor of computer science at Princeton, co-leads the Princeton NLP Group and serves as associate director of Princeton Language and Intelligence.

Sources and credits

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  1. Danqi Chen cs.princeton.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. A Thorough Examination of the CNN/Daily Mail Reading Comprehension Task arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Christopher Manning and Ph.D. Students’ Dissertations nlp.stanford.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Ushering Machines into the World of Human Knowledge cs.princeton.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Chen named 2022 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year cs.princeton.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Danqi Chen and Karthik Narasimhan, experts in natural language processing, receive NSF CAREER awards cs.princeton.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. Danqi Chen cs.princeton.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.