
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Moonlake AI; Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning at Stanford University; General Partner at AIX Ventures · Moonlake AI
Christopher Manning is the inaugural Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning in the Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science at Stanford University, a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Moonlake, and a General Partner at AIX Ventures. He served as the Director of the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) 2018–2025. Chris is a pioneer in deep learning Natural Language Processing (NLP), work for which he has received three consecutive ACL Test of Time Awards and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, and the most cited NLP researcher in the world. In 2025, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Christopher Manning is one of the most cited NLP researchers in the world, with a track record of shaping foundational ideas in language modeling — from GloVe embeddings to attention mechanisms — and his recent work bridges deep learning with questions about whether LLMs genuinely understand language; attending his session offers a rare chance to hear those arguments made with both mathematical rigor and philosophical depth, now also informed by his hands-on work on causal world models at Moonlake AI.
KDD 2025 Keynote: Meaning and Intelligence in Language ModelsKDD 2025 (ACM SIGKDD), Toronto, Canada · Aug 2025
Large Language Models in 2025 – How Much Understanding and Intelligence?First Workshop of a Public AI Assistant to World Wide Knowledge (WWK) · Mar 2025
Moonlake: Interactive, Multimodal World Models — with Chris Manning and Fan-yun SunLatent Space (video podcast) · Apr 2026Public activity researched automatically · as of Jun 2026