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Researcher

Ludwig Schmidt

Ludwig Schmidt is an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford, where his group has created OpenCLIP, DCLM, and LAION-5B for open-source machine learning. He earned a bachelor's degree at Cambridge in 2011 and an MIT PhD in 2018. A paper he wrote with Chinmay Hegde and Piotr Indyk won a best paper award at ICML in 2015, and Google named him a 2016 PhD fellow. He co-authored LAION-5B, an open image-text dataset that received an Outstanding Paper award at NeurIPS in 2022. Stanford Data Science welcomed him in May 2025, after his work as an assistant professor at the University of Washington and research roles at Anthropic.

Works
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Timeline

  1. 2011–2018

    An MIT doctorate with Piotr Indyk

    He earns a bachelor's degree at Cambridge in 2011 and an MIT PhD in 2018, with Piotr Indyk as his advisor. Afterward he works as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley.

  2. 2015

    A best paper at ICML

    His paper A Nearly-Linear Time Framework for Graph-Structured Sparsity, written with Chinmay Hegde and Piotr Indyk, wins a best paper award at ICML in 2015.

  3. 2016

    A Google PhD fellowship

    Google names him a 2016 PhD fellow in machine learning, for work on faster algorithms for sparse recovery.

  4. 2022

    LAION-5B earns NeurIPS award

    LAION-5B, an open image-text dataset that he co-authors, wins an Outstanding Paper award at NeurIPS in 2022.

  5. 2024

    DataComp-LM dataset paper

    DataComp-LM, a datasets and benchmarks paper at NeurIPS 2024, lists him among its co-authors.

  6. May 2025

    Joining Stanford Data Science

    Stanford Data Science welcomes him in May 2025. He comes from an assistant professorship at the University of Washington and research roles at Anthropic.

  7. Since 2025

    Assistant professor at Stanford

    He is an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford, where his group has created OpenCLIP, DCLM, and LAION-5B for open-source machine learning.

Sources and credits

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  1. Ludwig Schmidt | UW College of Engineering engr.washington.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Google Names Ludwig Schmidt as 2016 PhD Fellow in Machine Learning | MIT CSAIL Theory of Computation toc.csail.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Ludwig Schmidt's Profile | Stanford Profiles profiles.stanford.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. ICML 2015 best paper summary: A nearly-linear time framework for graph-structured sparsity - Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. A Nearly-Linear Time Framework for Graph-Structured Sparsity proceedings.mlr.press. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. NeurIPS 2022 Awards neurips.cc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. Allen School News Archive » Allen School and AI2 researchers recognized at NeurIPS for outstanding contributions in large-scale embodied AI and next-generation image-text models news.cs.washington.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Ludwig Schmidt people.csail.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  9. Meet New SDS Faculty Ludwig Schmidt at the Causal Science Center Conference on Experimentation | Stanford HAI datascience.stanford.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.