Dr. Nicholas Tomlin

Assistant Professor

PhD - University of California, Berkeley

Nicholas Tomlin received a B.A. in Mathematics and Linguistics from Brown University in 2019, as well as a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2025, where he was a member of the Berkeley NLP Group and advised by Dan Klein. Currently, he is a Faculty Fellow at NYU’s Center for Data Science, and he will be joining TTIC as an assistant professor in Fall 2026.

His research area is natural language processing, and his work focuses on improving the capabilities of language models through reasoning and interaction. He is also interested in developing methods that help humans better understand and monitor the behavior of AI systems, as well as the interface between cognitive science and artificial intelligence. In the past, he has also worked on computational psycholinguistics, historical language reconstruction, and language documentation.

Dr. Tomlin also has a personally maintained website which can be found at http://www.ttic.edu/tomlin.