Ludwig Schmidt
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic
📍 United States
Ludwig Schmidt is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University and a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. A PhD graduate from MIT, his research centers on the empirical foundations of machine learning, focusing on datasets, reliable generalization, and multimodality. He is a key contributor to major open-source AI projects.
His research group co-created OpenCLIP and the massive LAION-5B dataset, which contains over five billion image-text pairs used to train state-of-the-art AI models.
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5 Years
Current Role
Member of Technical Staff
Job Level
Junior
Location
United States
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Priorities
Topics Ludwig cares about
AI Training Datasets
His research group focuses on creating and curating large-scale datasets, such as LAION-5B and DataComp, to advance AI model performance and reliability.
Reliable AI Generalization
A core theme in his work is ensuring machine learning models are robust and generalize well when faced with new or unexpected data.
Career
Work history
11-2024
Member of Technical Staff
Anthropic
10-2023 - 11-2024
Member of Technical Staff
Anthropic
11-2024
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
2-2023 - 1-2025
Advisor
Yellow
10-2023 - 9-2024
Assistant Professor (on leave)
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
In the press
Media appearances
Ludwig Schmidt - Open source AI for Multimodality. Featured in YouTube
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Meet New SDS Faculty Ludwig Schmidt at the Causal Science Center Conference on Experimentation. Featured in Stanford Data Science Institute
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Education
2011 - 2017
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011 - 2013
Master of Science (MS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Social presence
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