Research Team
Todd Gureckis
Todd runs the lab or the lab runs him. He hopes to never ever give up learning and programming. Todd enjoys gardening, running, cycling, surfing, and rock climbing. He built a deck once. In a previous life he played in avante garde noise bands and started a record label.
Pat Intara
Pat (formerly Pat Little) is a PhD student in psychology interested in cognition, perception, and intuitive physics. Pat is allergic to identifying with any particular hobby or pastime out of fear that a true fan will try to bond over it and then be disappointed.
Rundong Guo
Rundong is a second-year MS in Data Science student at NYU. His background is in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC San Diego, and he previously interned as a Data Scientist at JD.com. He also co-founded an AI SaaS platform focusing on marketing automation for small business.
Jinran Jin
Jinran is a second-year Master's student in Data Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. He received his BS in Statistics and Data Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is broadly interested in the intersection of machine learning and cognitive science, particularly in how machines solve reasoning tasks and how this compares to human problem-solving approaches. His current research focuses on comparing the ways machines solve ARC tasks versus humans.
Divya Srinivasan
Divya is a masters student in Computer Science
Qianqian Zhao
Qianqian Zhao is a second-year master’s student in Data Science at NYU, with a dual undergraduate background in Communication and Applied Data Analytics. Her experiences focus on analyzing consumer and user behavior as well as market trends. She is particularly interested in how consumers and users respond to AI-driven recommendations and personalized ads, leveraging machine learning and NLP models to study decision-making patterns and generate insights for marketing and product analytics.
Catherine Lin
Catherine is a honors student in Psychology
Jingshan Wu
Jingshan is a honors student in Psychology
Alumni
- Guy Davidson - Grad student, Creative cognition, goal representations, program synthesis (2019-2025), now Research Scientist at Meta
- Emily Liquin - Postdoc, Mechanisms of question asking in children and adults (2021-2024), now Assistant Professor at University of New Hampshire
- Wai Keen Vong - Postdoc, AI and Human intelligence, real-world learning from video, concepts and reasoning (2019-2024)
- Kara Emery - Postdoc, Real world visual search (2021-2023), now Assistant Director of Research for the AI Hub within the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research
- Mark Ho - Center for Data Science Fellow, (2022-2023), now Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
- Pam Osborn Popp - Grad student, Helping and teaching (2016-2023), now Postdoc at Vanderbilt University
- Ethan Ludwin-Peery - Grad student, intuitive physics skeptic (2017-2022), now Visiting Assistant Professor at Hampshire College
- Angela Radulescu - Center for Data Science Fellow, reinforcement learning in naturalistic settings (2022-2022), now Assistant Professor at Mt. Sinai's Center for Computational Psychiatry
- Aysja Johnson - Grad student, open ended, abstract reasoning (2019-2021)
- Zhiwei Li - Grad student, computational models of suspense (2016-2021)
- David Halpern - Grad student, predicting memory behavior from fMRI (2014-2020), now Postdoc at Columbia with Daphna Shohamy
- Ili Ma - Postdoc, social decision making (2018-2020), now Associate Professor at Leiden University
- Shannon Tubridy - Postdoc, cog neuro of memory (2014-2020), now MA Program Instructor at NYU
- Anselm Rothe - Grad student, question asking in humans and machines (2014-2019), now Postdoc at the Max Plank Institute in Berlin
- Neil Bramley - Postdoc, learning about physics by acting (2017-2018), now Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at University of Edinburgh
- Camille Gasser - Undergrad honors student, neural basis of memory (2016-2018), now cognitive neuroscience PhD student studying memory at Columbia University
- Alex Rich - Grad student, learning traps (2013-2018), now Data Scientist at Flatiron Health
- Anna Coenen - Grad student, active causal learning (2012-2017), now at Netflix
- Brenden Lake - Center for Data Science Fellow/lab affiliate, question asking in humans and machines (2014-2017), now Professor Psychology and Computer Science at the (former) College of New Jersey
- George Kachergis - Postdoc, developmental computational cognitive scientist (2015-2016), now Research Scientist, Stanford University
- Patricia Chan - Research assistant/Lab manager, (2012-2014)
- Doug Markant - Grad student, active learning (2008-2014), now Associate Professor of Psychology at University of North Carolina, Charlotte
- Jay Martin - Grad student, machine learning, crowdsourcing, web programming, psiturk building extraordinare (2009-2014), now Director of Data Science, Player Science at Roblox
- John V. McDonnell - Grad student, crowd-sourcing categorization (2008-2013), now Data Scientist at StitchFix
- Sabina Tomkins - Research assistant, (2012-2013), now Assistant Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information
- Nathaniel Blanco - Lab manager/RA, (2009-2012), now Postdoc at Ohio State University
- Devin Domingo - Honors research student, (2011-2012), now Product Manager at Better Cloud
- Carol Jew - Research assistant, (2011-2012), now Grad student at University of Rochester
- Mordechai Juni - Grad student, psychophysics-decision making research (2008-2012), now Postdoc at UC Santa Barbara
- Megan Patterson - Research assistant, (2010-2011)
- Jerad Fields - Grad student, Bayesian modeler (2009-2010), now Data Scientist at Evie Labs
- Ben Goldberg - Research assistant, (2010)
- Rebecca Bainbridge - Research assistant, (2009), now Senior software engineer at Etsy
- Andrew Cohen - Research assistant, (2009)
- Jared Johnson - Research assistant, (2009)
- Lani Lei - Research assistant, (2009)
- Louis Tur - Lab programmer, (2008-2009), now Freelance iOS Developer
- Lisa Zaval - Lab manager, (2008-2009), now Postdoc at UMass