Stephen Bach

Stephen Bach is an assistant professor of computer science at Brown University. Previously, he was a visiting scholar at Google, and a postdoctoral scholar in the computer science department at Stanford University advised by Christopher Ré.

He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland, where he was advised by Lise Getoor. His research focuses on weakly supervised, zero-shot, and few-shot machine learning. The goal of his work is to create methods and systems that drive down the labor cost of AI. He was a core contributor to the Snorkel framework, which was recognized with a Best of VLDB 2018 award. He also co-led the team that developed the T0 family of large language models. The team was also one of the proposers of instruction tuning, which is the process of fine-tuning language models with supervised training to follow instructions. Instruction tuning is now a standard part of training large language models. Stephen is also an advisor to Snorkel AI.