Principal Investigator
Benjamin K. Bergen
Interests: Language comprehension and production; meaning and grammar; humans and machines.
Graduate students
James Michaelov
Interests: prediction in language comprehension.
James is also affiliated with the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny via the the Graduate Specialization in Anthropogeny.
Cameron Jones
Interests: how our knowledge about the world influences the way we understand language and how we make inferences to go beyond what is explicitly stated in the text.
Tyler Chang
Interests: comparisons between language processing in people and language models.
Tyler is also affiliated with the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute.
Sam Taylor
Interests: decision-making in humans and large language models.
Yoonwon Jung
Interests: How language and culture affect emotion concepts, and how emotion concepts construct human affective experience
Affiliates
Catherine Arnett
Interests: Psycholinguistics, multilingual language models.
Catherine is also affiliated with the Linguistics department and the Computational Social Science program.
Sean Trott
Interests: LLM-ology, psycholinguistics, ambiguity
Research Assistants
Alex Liebscher
Dan Kaliblotzky
Graduate Student Alumni
Sean Trott (now at UCSD)
Joshua Davis (now at SCC)
Rachel Ostrand (now at IBM)
Elkin Darío Gutiérrez (also now at IBM)
Rose Hendricks (now with the Society Civic Science Initiative)
Manami Sato (now at Okinawa International University)
Tyler Margetis (now at UC Merced)
Nian Liu (now at University of Oklahoma)
Carl Polley (now at the University of Hawai`i)
Jawee Perla (now at American University)
Bodo Winter (now at University of Birmingham)
Napasri Timyam (now at Kasetsaert University)
Song Jiang (now at University of Hawai`i)
Undergraduate Student Alumni
Stefanie Reed (now at CUNY)
Alex Liebscher (now at BetterUp)
Dan Kaliblotzky
Travis Talcott (now at Binghamton University)
Mikhail Stahl (now at UserZoom)
Chitra Subrahmanyam
Myrna Aboudiab
Michael Belcher
Matt Wynn (now at Washington University)
Ben Stillerman (now at NYU)
Austen McMahan
Clarice Robenalt (now at LinkedIn)
Ankitha Bharadwaj (now at Facebook)
Ian Loofbourow (now at Playstation)
Joanne Ku (now at CalOptima)
Tam Nguyen
Chloe Sanossian (now at Safe-T-Proof)
Henry Bley-Vroman (now at Viget)
Iris Kolberg (now at PHCC)