I am an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where I direct the Computational Cognitive Science Laboratory. I am Faculty in the Department of Psychology, the Program in Cognitive Science, and Berkeley’s new Masters in Computational Social Science.

My research examines human cognition from a computational perspective, combining experimental psychology with machine learning and cognitive modeling to address basic questions about human learning and reasoning. I am particularly interested in the computational problems that arise in multi-agent intelligence and the solutions that human minds and societies have discovered: language, social cognition, and cultural evolution. You can learn more about my work in this recent essay.

In Spring 2024 I will lead a graduate seminar on Large Language Models and Cognitive Science. I was incredibly fortunate to win the 2022 NOMIS and Science Magazine Young Explorer Award.

Prior to UC Berkeley, I was a postdoc in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, working with Tom Griffiths. I did my PhD at the University of Edinburgh, working with Simon Kirby and Kenny Smith.