Acknowledgments
Students and postdocs
Over the years I've had the very good fortune to work with a remarkable group of students, postdocs, and lab staff. They have all in their own ways mentored me as much as I have them. Most were co-advised by equally remarkable colleagues. (If you find omissions or errors, please let me know!)
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Apple (AI Research Engineer)
Thesis: Memory for Prediction: A Transformer-based Integrative Account of Sentence Processing
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New York University (Postdoctoral Associate)
Thesis: How Comparisons, Noise, and Risk Shape Human Decisions: Three Model-Driven Investigations
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University of Michigan (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science; Lecturer, Department of Linguistics)
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University of Michigan (Lecturer, Department of Psychology)
Thesis: Social Rationality: Social Preference and Strategic Reasoning in Social Contexts
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Brown University (Oh Lab, Research Assistant)
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ReflectionAI (Brooklyn, NY)
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Thesis: Evaluating Prediction-Based Theories of Bilingual Comprehension of Spanish/English Codeswitches
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University College London (Staff Research Associate)
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Mt. Holyoke College (Visiting Assistant Professor)
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Harvard University, Kempner Institute (Research Fellow)
Thesis: Reinforcement Learning Agents that Discover Structured Representations
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Google DeepMind (Senior Research Scientist), United Kingdom
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Center for Integrated Cognition (Research Scientist)
Thesis: Constructing Meaning, Piece by Piece: A Computational Cognitive Model of Human Sentence Comprehension
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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Thesis: Context Effects, Value Learning, and Individual Differences in Value-Based Decisions
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Steven Langsford
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Michigan State University (Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures)
Thesis: The Syntax, Semantics and Processing of Agreement and Binding Grammatical Illusions
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Guadalupe De Los Santos
Google (Jr. Linguist), New York, NY
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LinkedIn
Thesis: Deep Learning and Reward Design for Reinforcement Learning
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Yasaman Kazerooni
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Mehgha Shyam
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Meta (FAIR -- Fundamental AI Research), Research Scientist
Thesis: Adaptive Eye Movement Control in a Simple Linguistic Task
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University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (Associate Professor, Legal Studies & Business Ethics)
Thesis: The Hedonics of Disgust
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Campus (VP of Engineering)
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Amazon
Thesis: The Optimal Reward Problem: Designing Effective Reward for Bounded Agents
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University of Washington-St. Louis (Statistical analyst)
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Mason Smith
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Huffmaster Therapy Collective, Bingham Farms, MI (Psychotherapist, LLMSW)
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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Researcher)
Thesis: Individual Strategic Differences in Human High-Speed Performance
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National Taiwan Normal University (Associate Professor, Department of English)
Thesis: Aspects of the Syntax of (TP-)Coordination, Across-the-Board Extraction, and Parasitic Gaps
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UC Davis Health (Neurologist, Dementia specialist), Sacramento, CA
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University of Cincinnati / Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders)
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Lillian Chen
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Oberlin College (Associate Professor, Neuroscience)
Thesis: Neural Mechanisms for Cognitive Control in Complex Cognition
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Allison Blodgett
UMass Chan Medical School (IRB Director of Operations), Worcester, MA
Thesis: The interaction of prosodic phrasing, verb bias, and plausibility during spoken sentence comprehension
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Haskins Laboratories / Yale University (Senior Research Scientist)
Thesis: Retrieval effects in sentence parsing and interpretation
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University of Potsdam, Germany (Professor of Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics)
Thesis: Working memory in sentence comprehension: Processing Hindi center embeddings
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Sanae Eda
Funding sources
Much of my work would not have been possible without the support of funding agencies over the years: including NSF, NASA, Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Templeton World Charity Foundation, and the Federal Aviation Administration (see my CV for details).
A little historical background
Herbert Simon's Logic Theorist working notes
Below (and as a faint background behind my Background) are some of Herbert Simon's handwritten notes from 1955, working through the processing steps of the Logic Theorist — the program Allen Newell, Herb Simon and Cliff Shaw built to prove theorems from Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica. The Logic Theorist is one of the first working artificial intelligence programs to exhibit complex cognition, and its computational basis — search —remains one of the deepest foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Allen Newell was my graduate advisor in computer science at Carnegie Mellon, and Herb Simon taught the first course I took in graduate school. For more of the history of AI and cognitive science, see Patterns of Thought.
Carnegie Mellon University Archives