Principal Investigator
Post Docs

Jan-Philipp Franken
I currently work on reasoning (e.g., social, causal) in both humans and language models. During my PhD, I've worked on concept learning and social learning in multi-player games.
Graduate Students

Alex Tamkin
My research focuses on unsupervised learning: how can we understand and guide systems that learn general-purpose representations of the world?

Julia White
I am interested in the development of pragmatic and adaptive natural language generation algorithms for interactive dialogue systems.

Jesse Mu
My research interests are in operationalizing language for machine learning. This involves (1) building machines that can learn from (and teach with) language and interactive dialog, and (2) using language as a structured and compositional guide for learning.

Gabriel Poesia
My research goal is to advance the way we interact with computers, taking inspiration from how humans communicate and collaborate. In particular, I’m interested in making computers capable of handling ambiguous inputs and specifications by leveraging prior knowledge, context and interaction.

Rose Wang
My research interests are in unsupervised learning and multiagent systems.

Ben Prystawski
I am interested in understanding how language enables humans to work together effectively. My current research focuses on indirect language use and teaching.

Kanishk Gandhi
I am interested in social cognition; how we can build machines that interact with, learn from and communicate with others.

Eric Zelikman
I am excited about how we can build models that are able to reason better by learning to model the world and leverage structural understanding, such as in multi-step planning, intermediate rationales, object-centric visual representations, or theory of mind and social reasoning.
Lab affiliates

Dilip Arumugam
My research is aimed at understanding the key ingredients of sample-efficient reinforcement learning. Currently, I examine how information theory might be a useful tool for facilitating this understanding, with a focus on abstractions and natural language.

Shyamal Buch
I'm working on methods to better understand the structure of events in vision and language, with a particular emphasis on video applications and language grounding.

Lauren Gillespie
My research aims to apply cutting-edge ML technologies to climate change-related ecological problems in concert with developing better ML methods for working with complex ecological and genomic data.

Joy Hsu
I’m interested in visual reasoning, and creating visual understanding models that are generalists.

Sidd Karamcheti
I'm interested in natural language processing in application to robotics, specifically looking at methods for adapting to users online, and learning through interaction.

Elisa Kreiss
I use probabilistic and neural network models to understand human language production and comprehension. In particular, I concentrate on the role context plays in this process.

Ali Malik
My research interests are in probabilistic reasoning, algorithms, and building intelligent systems that help humans learn.

Dhara Yu
I’m interested in studying how evolutionary pressures shape the features of language and how language facilitates knowledge transmission, in both humans and machines.
Alumni
Mike Wu (graduate student in Computer Science) -- DeFi startup
Erin Bennett (graduate student in Psychology)
Judy Fan (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC San Diego
Robert Hawkins (graduate student in Psychology) -- Post-doc at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Michael Henry Tessler (graduate student in Psychology) -- Post-doc at MIT
Desmond Ong (graduate student in Psychology) -- Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Analytics at the National University of Singapore and Research Scientist at the A*STAR Artificial Intelligence Initiative (A*AI)
Judith Degen (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford
Leon Bergen (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UCSD
Greg Scontras (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Irvine
Justine Kao (graduate student in Psychology) -- Siri Machine Learning Data Scientist at Apple
Andreas Stuhlmüller (graduate student and post-doc) -- Founder of Ought
Long Ouyang (graduate student and post-doc)
Daniel Hawthorne (graduate student in Psychology) -- Co-founder and CTO at Datawallet
Daniel Ly (post-doc) -- Senior Algorithms and Machine Learning Engineer at Seismic
Siddharth Narayanaswamy (post-doc) -- Senior Researcher at Oxford
Daniel Lassiter (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford
Joseph Austerweil (post-doc) -- Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wisconsin, Madison
Thomas Icard (graduate student in Philosophy) -- Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stanford