Jacob Russin
Postdoc (co-advised with Michael J Frank)
Cognitive science; computational neuroscience; reasoning; compositionality; cognitive flexibility; cognitive control; cognitive maps
Melanie Subbiah
Postdoc
Subjectivity, social reasoning, narrative
Michael Lepori
PhD Student (co-advised with Thomas Serre)
Computational cognitive science, mechanistic interpretability, compositionality
Apoorv Khandelwal
PhD Student (co-advised with Chen Sun)
Representations, generalization, latent reasoning, compositionality
Megan Wei
PhD Student
Interpretability, audio, creative AI
Laila Johnston
PhD Student (co-advised with Roman Feiman)
Computational cognitive science, relevance problem and frame problem, ad-hoc language communication, pragmatics, concept spaces
Aalok Sathe
PhD Student (co-advised with Michael J Frank)
Computational cognitive neuroscience; working memory, gating, reinforcement learning; language cognition
Etha Tianze Hua
PhD Student
Interpretability, vision-language models, meta-cognition
Jojo Zhuonan Yang
PhD Student
Interpretability, neuroscience, cognitive science
Andrew Wang
PhD Student (co-advised with Ritambhara Singh)
Evaluation, interpretability, healthcare, genomics
Xiaoyang Nick Hu
PhD Student
Interpretability, cognitive science
Surya Chinnappa
PhD Student (co-advised with Roman Feiman)
Semantics & pragmatics, logical reasoning, symbol grounding, lexical & conceptual structure
Zhizhi (Timmy) Wang
MS Student
Interpretability, cognitive science, AI ethics
Athulith Paraselli
MS Student
Interpretability, multimodality, cognitive science
Alumni
Multi-Level Analysis of Representation and Reasoning in LLMs
Internal Representations in Vision-Language Models
Understanding Multilingualism in Large Language Models
Simple Mechanisms Underlying Complex Behaviors in Transformers
Emergence of Symbolic Structure from Data in Prototype NNs
Tuning Language Models to Follow Instructions
Understanding the Conceptual Structure of Neural Networks
Modeling Verb Meaning with Trajectories
Connecting Models of Language to Models of the World
Jennifer Meng Lu
Yik Siu Chan
Daniel Kang
Siddharth Boppana
Alan Chen
Enyan Zhang
Qinan Yu
Alyssa Marie Loo Li Ann
Kunal Handa
Suraj Anand
Noah Foster
Louis Castricato
Sydney Zink
Yongming Han
Matthew McAvoy
Deniz Bayazit
Tucker Berckmann
Sheridan Feucht
Dan Smits
Nam Do
Niharika Jhingan
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