Graham Neubig

Graham Neubig is an NLP researcher whose work spans machine translation, neural-network toolkits, NLP evaluation and software agents. He earned a B.S. in computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in informatics at Kyoto University, completing the Ph.D. in 2012. He coauthored DyNet and ExplainaBoard, and co-founded All Hands AI, whose OpenDevin project became OpenHands. As of October 2026, he is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon and Chief Scientist at OpenHands.

Now at: Carnegie Mellon University and OpenHands
Works: 806
Citations: 27,669
h-index: 77
Badges: Founder
Bridge
Wayfarer

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

2012–2013

Kyoto PhD and NAIST translation

He earns a B.S. in computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in informatics at Kyoto University; he completes his Ph.D. in 2012. In 2013, he is an assistant professor in NAIST's Laboratory of Augmented Human Communication, where the team develops a system that starts simultaneous speech translation before a speaker finishes a sentence.
2016

Assistant professor at CMU

In 2016, he is an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute.
2017

DyNet neural network toolkit

In 2017, he coauthors DyNet, a toolkit for implementing neural network models based on dynamic declaration of network structure.
2021

ExplainaBoard and Blavatnik finalist

In 2021, he coauthors ExplainaBoard, an NLP evaluation tool that helps researchers diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of individual systems. He is a finalist for the 2021 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists.
2023

CEO of Inspired Cognition

In 2023, he is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute and CEO of Inspired Cognition.
July 2024

Co-founding All Hands AI

In July 2024, he co-founds All Hands AI with Robert Brennan and Xingyao Wang to build open-source AI software development agents.
2025

OpenHands Versa and VersaBench

In 2025, the OpenDevin project is renamed OpenHands. In June 2025, he joins Juan Michelini and Xingyao Wang to introduce VersaBench, a benchmark spanning software development and broader business tasks, and the OpenHands Versa agent. The team reports state-of-the-art accuracy on eight of VersaBench's ten benchmarks.
As of October 2026

Associate professor at CMU

As of October 2026, he is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute and Chief Scientist at OpenHands.