I'm an assistant professor at the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, working on natural language processing.
I'm interested in how people and AI agents communicate and collaborate. My group, LARC (Language Agents, Reasoning, and Communication), studies language model agents for tasks including coding and computer use, human-AI interaction, multi-agent dynamics and values, and reasoning. A recurring theme is pragmatics: how language works in context (see our survey).
Previously, I was a postdoc at FAIR Seattle and the University of Washington. I completed a PhD at UC Berkeley in the NLP Group and the Berkeley AI Research Lab, an M.Phil. at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory and a B.S. at the University of Arizona.
- Office: Gates-Hillman Center 6509
- Email: dfried@cs.cmu.edu
Interested in working with our group? Please see my note for current and prospective students, postdocs, and interns before emailing.
Links: Group • Bio • CV • Google Scholar • Twitter • Research Statement (2024)
