Arriving to Cornell Tech in July 2027, Amrith Setlur is an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
Setlur’s research focuses on building AI systems that can continually adapt and improve at test time, including foundation models that dynamically scale computing resources for reasoning and exploration as they solve complex problems.
He has been recognized with the JPMorgan Chase AI Ph.D. Fellowship, the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Presidential Fellowship, and the Laude Institute Slingshot Award. His work has been published in leading machine learning venues, including ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, and AISTATS, and has received multiple spotlight and oral presentation selections as well as workshop best paper awards. Setlur earned his Ph.D. in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University.