Noah Smith
Noah Smith earned his computer science doctorate at Johns Hopkins. He earlier held an associate professorship in language technologies and machine learning at Carnegie Mellon. ACL elected Smith a Fellow in 2020 for work on linguistic structure prediction, computational social science and improvements to NLP research methodology. These subjects connect language modeling with the way researchers evaluate systems. Smith directs OLMo and leads an open multimodal AI infrastructure project. His work also includes Rubato for timestamped music transcription and Legato 2 for digitizing sheet music, alongside his UW and Ai2 appointments.
- Works
- 560
- Citations
- 42,122
- h-index
- 93
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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Education and early career
Language technologies
Noah Smith earned his computer science doctorate at Johns Hopkins. He earlier held an associate professorship in language technologies and machine learning at Carnegie Mellon.
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2020
Research recognition
ACL elected Smith a Fellow in 2020 for work on linguistic structure prediction, computational social science and improvements to NLP research methodology. These subjects connect language modeling with the way researchers evaluate systems.
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As of October 2026
Open models and music
Smith directs OLMo and leads an open multimodal AI infrastructure project. His work also includes Rubato for timestamped music transcription and Legato 2 for digitizing sheet music, alongside his UW and Ai2 appointments.
Sources and credits
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