Alexander "Sasha" Rush

Sasha Rush is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. His research interests are in the study of language models with applications in controllable text generation, efficient inference, and summarization and information extraction. Rush is a member of Cornell’s Natural Language Processing Group, which aims to build and improve language models.

In addition to his research, Rush has written several popular open-source software projects that support natural language processing research, including tools for translation and language modeling. He also runs a YouTube channel, where he gives technical talks and courses on topics like large language models and deep learning.

Rush teaches courses on engineering large-scale deep learning systems and language models. He has received the Cornell Tech Student Choice award for excellence in teaching. He has also received an NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Fellowship, and research awards from Google, Amazon, Meta, and Sony.