Isabel Papadimitriou

Assistant Professor (Incoming September 2025)

About

I work on understanding and defining the capabilities of large language models in relation to the human language system.

I am especially interested in pursuing an interdisciplinary research program, combining computational empirical machine learning methods with theories of human language. My principal interests include: how language models learn and use generalizable grammatical abstractions, the interaction between structure and meaning representations in high-dimensional vector spaces, and using multilingual settings to test the limits of abstraction in language models.


Teaching


Isabel Papadimitriou

Assistant Professor (Incoming September 2025)

About

I work on understanding and defining the capabilities of large language models in relation to the human language system.

I am especially interested in pursuing an interdisciplinary research program, combining computational empirical machine learning methods with theories of human language. My principal interests include: how language models learn and use generalizable grammatical abstractions, the interaction between structure and meaning representations in high-dimensional vector spaces, and using multilingual settings to test the limits of abstraction in language models.


Teaching


Isabel Papadimitriou

Assistant Professor (Incoming September 2025)
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I work on understanding and defining the capabilities of large language models in relation to the human language system.

I am especially interested in pursuing an interdisciplinary research program, combining computational empirical machine learning methods with theories of human language. My principal interests include: how language models learn and use generalizable grammatical abstractions, the interaction between structure and meaning representations in high-dimensional vector spaces, and using multilingual settings to test the limits of abstraction in language models.

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