October 2022
April 2022
Sometime pre-COVID
We work in four main areas:
- Modeling human decision making
- optimization problems (bandit problems, optimal stopping problems, ..) that involve making sequences of decisions under uncertainty in structured environments
- strategies in decision making, with a focus on environment structure, adaptive strategy use, and individual differences
- Collective cognition and the wisdom of the crowd
- using cognitive models to improve wisdom of the crowd performance
- using cognitive models to extend the types of behavioral data that can be combined across a crowd of people
- Modeling memory with clinical applications
- applying models of memory and knowledge representation to detect and understand changes caused by aging and impairment, using real-world clinical data
- Bayesian statistical methods
- using graphical models and computational Bayesian methods to improve the development, evaluation and application of cognitive models
Key Collaborators
E.-J. Wagenmakers, University of Amsterdam
Ben Newell, University of New South Wales
Kevin Gluck, formerly of US Air Force Research Laboratory
Bouzas lab, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Current Graduate Students
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Manuel Villarreal, 5th year |
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Lauren Montgomery, 5th year |
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Nidhi Banavar (Primary Advisor: Aaron Bornstein) |
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Adriana Felisa Chávez De la Peña (Primary Advisor: Joachim Vandekerckhove) |
Current Undergraduate Students
Charlie Baldini
Sara Chong
Ren-Hui Michelle Tham
Emily Lee
Former Graduate Students
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Holly Westfall |
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Jeff Coon (Primary Advisor: Barbara Sarnecka), now assistant professor at Hanover College IN |
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Bobby Thomas, now UX Researcher at DAT Freight & Analytics |
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Maime (Hongyang) Guan, now data scientist at Apple |
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Percy Mistry, now research scientist at Stanford |
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Irina Danileiko, now data analyst at Wizards of the Coast |
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James Pooley, now at Success Academy Charter Schools |
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Shunan Zhang, now at Apple |
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Matt Zeigenfuse, now at Swiss Re |
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Matt Dry, now at the University of Adelaide |
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Mark Mackay, now at the University of South Australia |
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Danielle Navarro, now pharmacometrician at Certara |
Former Undergraduate Students
Susie Liu
Karyssa Courey
Michelle Ke
Juliana Chhouk
Ibrahim Takesh
Albert Le
Stephanie Doering
Matt Tillis
Isaiah Cushman
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