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


2024-25 Courses


Stanford Advisees


  • Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
    Kyle Hsu
  • Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
    Mike Merrill
  • Orals Evaluator
    Kyle Hsu
  • Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
    Audrey Xie
  • Doctoral Dissertation Reader (NonAC)
    Yuhui Zhang
  • Doctoral (Program)
    Alex Fang, Dhruba Ghosh