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Fei Xu

Dept of Psychology

cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy

Dept of Psychology

A.I., learning, philosophy, psychology, cognitive development, theory of mind, young children, children's causal knowledge, Bayes Net formalism

Patrick Hsu in the lab

Patrick Hsu

Dept of Bioengineering

generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science

Joseph J. Campos

Dept of Psychology

social-emotional development in infancy, emotional communication, perception of emotion, relation of motor development to cognitive and social and emotional development

Dept of Psychology

attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development, machine learning, belief formation

Mahesh Srinivasan

Mahesh Srinivasan

Dept of Psychology

flexible and pragmatic uses of language, representation of abstract concepts, linguistic relativity, social cognitive development in different cultural contexts

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

School of Education

biostatistics, educational statistics, latent variable models, missing data methods, multilevel models, generalized linear latent and mixed models, hierarchical models, longitudinal data, Item response models, structural equation models

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

computationally efficient machine learning and deep learning, AI

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, cognition, attention, visual perception, vision, visually guided action, human factors

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

Photo of Alex Dimakis

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

generative models

School of Education

development, education, cognition, human development, development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning, children’s conceptions of authority, rules in school settings, culture and social development

Dept of Statistics

statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology

Verónica Gómez Sánchez

Dept of Philosophy

philosophy of science, metaphysics, cognitive science

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Dept of Statistics

causal inference, machine learning, nonparametric statistics, responsible AI, algorithmic fairness

Dept of Philosophy

metaphysics, philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, behavior, cognition, brain, attention, coordination, psychology, motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations, temporal processing, executive control

Bin Yu

Dept of Statistics

machine learning, trustworthy data science and AI, interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, neuroscience, climate science

A photograph of a handsome professor of Architecture

Dept of Architecture

design computation, architectural representation, design methods, Generative AI, artificial intelligence, creativity, ideation and creativity

José Pablo Vázquez-Medina

José Pablo Vázquez-Medina

Dept of Integrative Biology

marine mammals, pre-clinical models of disease

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Japanese linguistics, syntax/semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, cognitive linguistics

William Collins

William Collins

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate change, uncertainty of extremes, climate modeling, coupled models of the climate system, global climate models, solar and terrestrial radiation

Dept of Neuroscience

School of Optometry

cognitive neuroscience, pharmacology, psychedelics, learning, attention, visual perception, neuroimaging

Isha Ray

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

water and development, sanitation and development, gender and technology and society