Incoming assistant professor at TTIC, current faculty fellow at NYU, and previous PhD student at Berkeley. Natural language processing. He/him. 🌐 nickatomlin.github.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/nickatomlin.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nickatomlin.bsky.social/post/3m6ffomiwrk2bI'm recruiting my first group of students at TTIC! If you're interested, please apply by December 9th and mention my name in your application [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Nov 2025 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:z7arswcewujauqliowdnckf5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ffomiwrk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nickatomlin.bsky.social/post/3m3ujc5xmtc2pTwo brief advertisements! TTIC is recruiting both tenure-track and research assistant professors: https://ttic.edu/faculty-hiring/ NYU is recruiting faculty fellows: apply.interfolio.com/174686 Happy to chat with anyone considering either of these options23 Oct 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:z7arswcewujauqliowdnckf5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ujc5xmtc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/nickatomlin.bsky.social/post/3lzvsx5tnlc22What does it take to build a human-like user simulator? // Jessy Lin and I wrote another blogpost on user simulators as a reward function for training interactive models, this time focused on methods + open questions: https://jessylin.com/2025/09/25/user-simulators-2/28 Sep 2025 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:z7arswcewujauqliowdnckf5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzvsx5tnlc22https://bsky.app/profile/nickatomlin.bsky.social/post/3lqbudayz322s🤠🤓🙂 [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 May 2025 04:17 +0000at://did:plc:z7arswcewujauqliowdnckf5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqbudayz322shttps://bsky.app/profile/nickatomlin.bsky.social/post/3lp3glct4j22eI'm particularly fond of this new benchmark paper we wrote, which aims to scalably evaluate whether language models can generalize to arbitrary new tasks. The core idea is to use LLMs to generate new games, and then evaluate whether LLMs can play those games 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2505.0721513 May 2025 21:30 +0000at://did:plc:z7arswcewujauqliowdnckf5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp3glct4j22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/nickatomlin.bsky.social/post/3lmt5fwskw22tWriting my first post here to announce that I've accepted an assistant professor job at TTIC! I'll be starting in Fall 2026, and recruiting students this upcoming cycle. Until then, I'll be wrapping up the PhD at Berkeley, and this summer I'll join NYU as a CDS Faculty Fellow 🏙️15 Apr 2025 03:34 +0000at://did:plc:z7arswcewujauqliowdnckf5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmt5fwskw22t