Tim Althoff

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Washington

Joined

July 2019

Names

Tim Althoff

Emails

****@cs.washington.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science, University of Washington (cs.washington.edu)

2019 – Present

PhD student

Computer Science Department, Stanford University (cs.stanford.edu)

2013 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Jure Leskovec

2013 – 2018

Expertise

data science

Present

natural language processing

Present

computational social science

Present

health applications

Present

human AI interaction

Present

Publications

Self-Improving VLM Judges Without Human Annotations
Inna Wanyin Lin, Yushi Hu, Shuyue Stella Li, Scott Geng, Pang Wei Koh, Luke Zettlemoyer, Tim Althoff, Marjan Ghazvininejad
- ICLR 2026 Workshop RSI Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Self-supervised Learning for Incomplete Multimodal Wearable Sensor Data
Maxwell A Xu, Girish Narayanswamy, Kumar Ayush, Dimitris Spathis, Samuel Aaron Solomon, Shun Liao, Shyam A. Tailor, Ahmed Metwally, A. Ali Heydari, Yuwei Zhang, Jake Garrison, Samy Abdel-Ghaffar, Xuhai Xu, Ken Gu, Jacob Sunshine, Ming-Zher Poh, Yun Liu, Tim Althoff, Shrikanth Narayanan, Pushmeet Kohli et al. (6 additional authors not shown)
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
SynthWorlds: Controlled Parallel Worlds for Disentangling Reasoning and Knowledge in Language Models
Ken Gu, Advait Bhat, Mike A Merrill, Robert West, Xin Liu, Daniel McDuff, Tim Althoff
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Chasing Moving Targets with Online Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Safer Language Models
Mickel Liu, Liwei Jiang, Yancheng Liang, Simon Shaolei Du, Yejin Choi, Tim Althoff, Natasha Jaques
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Consistently Simulating Human Personas with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
Marwa Abdulhai, Ryan Cheng, Donovan Clay, Tim Althoff, Sergey Levine, Natasha Jaques
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors
Yuwei Zhang, Kumar Ayush, Siyuan Qiao, A. Ali Heydari, Girish Narayanswamy, Maxwell A Xu, Ahmed Metwally, Jinhua Xu, Jake Garrison, Xuhai Xu, Tim Althoff, Yun Liu, Pushmeet Kohli, Jiening Zhan, Mark Malhotra, Shwetak Patel, Cecilia Mascolo, Xin Liu, Daniel McDuff, Yuzhe Yang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
RADAR: Benchmarking Language Models on Imperfect Tabular Data
Ken Gu, Zhihan Zhang, Kate Lin, Yuwei Zhang, Akshay Paruchuri, Hong Yu, Mehran Kazemi, Kumar Ayush, A. Ali Heydari, Maxwell A Xu, Yun Liu, Ming-Zher Poh, Yuzhe Yang, Mark Malhotra, Shwetak Patel, Hamid Palangi, Xuhai Xu, Daniel McDuff, Tim Althoff, Xin Liu
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Wearable Foundation Models
Girish Narayanswamy, Xin Liu, Kumar Ayush, Yuzhe Yang, Xuhai Xu, shun liao, Jake Garrison, Shyam A. Tailor, Jacob Sunshine, Yun Liu, Tim Althoff, Shrikanth Narayanan, Pushmeet Kohli, Jiening Zhan, Mark Malhotra, Shwetak Patel, Samy Abdel-Ghaffar, Daniel McDuff
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Towards a Personal Health Large Language Model
Justin Cosentino, Anastasiya Belyaeva, Xin Liu, Zhun Yang, Yun Liu, Shyam A. Tailor, Tim Althoff, John B Hernandez, Yossi Matias, Greg Corrado, Shwetak Patel, SHRAVYA SHETTY, Jiening Zhan, Daniel McDuff, Cory Y McLean
- AIM-FM Workshop @ NeurIPS'24 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Correcting misinformation on social media with a large language model
Xinyi Zhou, Ashish Sharma, Amy X Zhang, Tim Althoff
- arXiv
- Readers: Everyone

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