Bio


Ludwig Schmidt is an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Computer Science Department and Stanford Data Science. Ludwig’s research interests revolve around the empirical foundations of machine learning, often with a focus on datasets, reliable generalization, multimodality, and language models. Recently, Ludwig’s research group contributed to open source machine learning by creating OpenCLIP, DCLM, and the LAION-5B dataset. Ludwig completed his PhD at MIT and was a postdoc at UC Berkeley. Ludwig’s research received a new horizons award at EAAMO, best paper awards at ICML & NeurIPS, a best paper finalist at CVPR, and the Sprowls dissertation award from MIT.

Academic Appointments


2026-27 Courses


Stanford Advisees


  • Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
    Mayee Chen
  • Orals Evaluator
    Mayee Chen
  • Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (NonAC)
    Audrey Xie
  • Master's Program Advisor
    Crystal Chen
  • Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
    Etash Guha, John Yang
  • Doctoral (Program)
    Alex Fang, Dhruba Ghosh