Researcher

Mrinmaya Sachan

Sachan completed doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon and later held a research-assistant-professor role at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. ETH appointed Sachan to a machine-learning and NLP role in July 2020, with his physical arrival delayed until August. He described research on language processing, knowledge discovery, reasoning and education. The Language, Reasoning and Education Lab received an April 2026 grant on language-model-based intelligent mathematics tutors. The lab researches reasoning, pedagogy and student modeling.

Works
312
Citations
2,313
h-index
24

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

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Timeline

  1. Before 2020

    Doctoral and Chicago research

    Sachan completed doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon and later held a research-assistant-professor role at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.

  2. 2020

    ETH appointment

    ETH appointed Sachan to a machine-learning and NLP role in July 2020, with his physical arrival delayed until August. He described research on language processing, knowledge discovery, reasoning and education.

  3. 2026

    Language models for tutoring

    The Language, Reasoning and Education Lab received an April 2026 grant on language-model-based intelligent mathematics tutors. The lab researches reasoning, pedagogy and student modeling.

Sources and credits

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  1. Welcome, Professor Mrinmaya Sachan – Department of Computer Science | ETH Zurich (https://inf.ethz.ch/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2020/08/welcome-professor-mrinmay inf.ethz.ch. Checked 13 October 2026.
  2. ETH LRE Lab - Home lre.inf.ethz.ch. Checked 13 October 2026.