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Meet our lab members!
Joshua Hartshorne
Principal Investigator
B.A. Mathematics, Oberlin College
M.A. Psychology, Harvard University
Ph.D. Psychology, Harvard University
I am interested in understanding what allows humans, but not current machines, to learn language – and why it is that children, despite their salient limitations of both cognition and experience, are so much more successful at language learning than adults. I am particularly interested in applying new and emerging methods (such as computational modeling and crowdsourcing) to core problems in the language sciences.
Samantha Gutierrez
Lab Manager
I graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Linguistics. I’m interested in all things relating to language, especially English neopronouns and language processing in general. Excited to get to work at the lab!
Tianyi Li
Graduate Student
I earned my bachelor degree in software engineering and then a master in cognitive neuroscience. Having been exposed to a diverse of perspectives from different disciplines along the way, I am broadly interested in cognitive science, especially language and cognition related topics. I seek to learn how people understand each other through learning, exchanging, and interpreting abstract information and how this knowledge in turn can help us more intelligent machines. I use a combination of computational modeling and empirical studies.
Amanda Rose Yuile
Postdoc
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My research investigates the cognitive mechanisms that support real-time language comprehension and word learning in early childhood. I focus on how young children draw on their growing knowledge of events and language to make sense of words as sentences unfold, using tools like eye-tracking and large-scale language data.
Joel Iglesias Lopez
Undergraduate RA, Lab Coordinator
Hi, I'm Joel, a junior at Boston College, where I'm studying applied psychology, special education, and clinical social work. After graduating from BC I plan on pursing a career in school social work. As the LC at AI4CommSci, I work with lab members and affiliates to help run the lab smoothly, particularly with scheduling and administrative tasks.
Iris Oved
Affiliated Researcher
B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology, Philosophy, Symbolic Systems), University of Arizona
Ph.D. Philosophy, Rutgers University
Postdoc, NSF Computing Innovations Fellow, University of Arizona
I am interested in mental and linguistic representations in humans and machines, with a special focus on concept acquisition through perception and language. My favorite insights come from designing virtual human toddlers who learn by exploring their virtual environments.
