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

Manuel Villarreal, 5th year
Lauren Montgomery, 5th year
co-advising
Nidhi Banavar (Primary Advisor: Aaron Bornstein)
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

Holly Westfall
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Jeff Coon (Primary Advisor: Barbara Sarnecka), now assistant professor at Hanover College IN
Bobby Thomas, now UX Researcher at DAT Freight & Analytics
Maime (Hongyang) Guan, now data scientist at Apple
Percy Mistry, now research scientist at Stanford
Irina Danileiko, now data analyst at Wizards of the Coast
Profile Image James Pooley, now at Success Academy Charter Schools
Shunan Zhang, now at Apple
Matt Zeigenfuse, now at Swiss Re
Matt Dry, now at the University of Adelaide
Mark Mackay, now at the University of South Australia
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