We are a research group in the Institute for Machine Learning within the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. We are also part of the ETH AI center, the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems, the Ellis Society and the ETH Zurich - EPFL Joint Doctoral Program in the Learning Sciences.
Our research is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together two fields: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI for Education (AIED). We pursue a two-pronged approach, coupling a thrust on foundations of reasoning and problem-solving in Large Language Models (LLMs) along with their pedagogical applications (e.g., intelligent tutoring). Some of our current focus areas include:
- Science of Problem-solving (Reasoning) in language models
- Formal models of pedagogical theory, and applications to LLM theory and practice
- Pedagogical alignment of large language models
- Intelligent tutoring and Student modeling
We are located in the beautiful city of Zurich in Switzerland. We are grateful for funding from SNF, ETH Research Grants, Haslerstiftung, Schmidt Sciences, the ETH AI center and the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems.
News
20. March 2026Congratulations to Alessandro Stolfo on successfully passing his PhD defense! Alessandro is joining Google Deepmind.
10. September 2025Congratulations to Vilem Zouhar for winning the 2025 Google PhD fellowship in Natural Language Processing.
31. July 2025Mrinmaya and several lab members gave a tutorial at the BEA Workshop at ACL 2025!
10. July 2025Congratulations to Kumar Shridhar on successfully passing his PhD defense! Shridhar is joining Ema in the Bay area.
30. June 2025Congratulations to Shehzaad Dhuliawala on passing his PhD defense! Shehzaad is joining Meta as a Research Scientist.
30. June 2025Congratulations to Yilmazcan Ozyurt on passing his PhD defense! Yilmazcan is joining Google Deepmind as a Research Scientist.
27. Oct 2023Congratulations to Sankalan Pal Chowdhury for winning this year's Fritz Kutter prize given to the best practice oriented MSc thesis in Switzerland.
8. Oct 20236 papers accepted at EMNLP 2023, 3 papers at Findings of the ACL. Congratulations to all the authors!
21. Sep 20231 paper accepted at NeurIPS 2023. Congratulations to all the authors!