PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Erin Bransom

Erin Bransom is an AI researcher whose work spans model evaluation, tools for scientific reading and synthesis, and open vision-language models. In 2023, she coauthored LongEval, an EACL Outstanding Paper on long-summary evaluation, and a paper on the Semantic Reader project for interactive research-paper reading. Her 2024 papers explored researcher-specific scientific jargon, LLM-supported literature reviews, and agents that run tasks in research repositories. The 2025 Molmo and PixMo paper introduced an open vision-language model family and PixMo data, and received a CVPR Best Paper Honorable Mention. She is part of Ai2's team as of October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2023

    LongEval and an EACL award

    In 2023, she coauthors LongEval, guidelines for evaluating the faithfulness of long-form summaries. It receives an EACL Outstanding Paper award.

  2. 2023

    Semantic Reader for research papers

    In 2023, she coauthors a paper describing the Semantic Reader Project, a collaboration to create dynamic reading interfaces for research papers.

  3. 2024

    Personalized jargon identification

    In 2024, she coauthors a study of personalized jargon identification. The work uses more than 10,000 term-familiarity annotations from 11 computer-science researchers, drawn from 100 paper abstracts.

  4. 2024

    CHIME for literature reviews

    In 2024, she coauthors CHIME, a study of LLM-generated hierarchies for organizing scientific studies in literature reviews. Its dataset contains 2,174 LLM-generated hierarchies across 472 topics.

  5. 2024

    SUPER agent benchmark

    In 2024, she coauthors SUPER, a benchmark for testing whether LLMs can set up and run tasks from research repositories. The benchmark includes 45 end-to-end problems with annotated expert solutions.

  6. 2025

    Molmo and PixMo

    In 2025, she coauthors Molmo and PixMo, an open family of vision-language models with PixMo datasets for image captions, image question answering, and 2D pointing. The paper receives a CVPR Best Paper Honorable Mention.

  7. As of October 2026

    Ai2 team member

    As of October 2026, she is part of Ai2's team.

  1. 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.
  2. The United States employs an estimated 53% of people in our data with a known employment countryOur estimates of where AI careers are concentrated now and how countries’ shares of dated positions changed over time.
  3. 46% of living people in our data with known birth and employment countries work outside their birth countryOur estimate of cross-border careers in AI, from country of birth and the country of each current organization.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionOur estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.

Sources and credits

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  1. LongEval: Guidelines for Human Evaluation of Faithfulness in Long-form Summarization - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Personalized Jargon Identification for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Communication - PMC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. CHIME: LLM-Assisted Hierarchical Organization of Scientific Studies for Literature Review Support - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. SUPER: Evaluating Agents on Setting Up and Executing Tasks from Research Repositories - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. CVPR 2025 Best Papers and Best Demos cvpr.thecvf.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  8. Team Directory | Ai2 allenai.org. Checked 19 October 2026.