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 work on enabling people and LM agents to communicate and collaborate on real-world tasks: writing code, using computers and the web, and reasoning. A recurring theme is pragmatics: language as action taken in context to affect a listener (see our survey and position paper).
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 (note for prospective students)
If you are a CMU student interested in working with me in Fall 2026, please fill out this form.
Unfortunately, I do not have internship openings for students outside CMU at this time.
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