Principal Investigator

Judith Fan

Assistant Professor of Psychology

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Lab Manager

Arnav Verma

Research Staff

Kristine Zheng

Postdocs

Erik Brockbank

Junyi Chu

Kushin Mukherjee

Lionel Wong

PhD Students

Sean Anderson

Sebastian Holt

Linas Nasvytis

Alexa Tartaglini

Masters Students

Vryan Feliciano

Lab Affiliates

Shawn Schwartz

Justin Yang

Rebecca Zhu

Undergraduate Students

Rio Aguina-Kang

Nora Dee

Collaborators

Kelsey Allen, DeepMind
Jacob Andreas, MIT
Dave Barner, UCSD
Dan Bear, Stanford
Wilma Bainbridge, U. Chicago
Steven Dow, UCSD
Mike Frank, Stanford
Noah Goodman, Stanford
Yulia Gryaditskaya, University of Surrey
David Ha, Google
Robert Hawkins, UW-Madison
Martin Hebart, U. Giessen & MPI: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Ben Hutchinson, U. Oregon
George Kachergis, Skillprint
David Kirsh, UCSD
Bria Long, Stanford
Marcelo Mattar, UCSD
Ken Norman, Princeton
Nadia Polikarpova, UCSD
Evan Pu, Autodesk Research
Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford
Ariel Shamir, Reichman University
Jordan Suchow, Stevens Institute of Technology
Jordan Taylor, Princeton
Josh Tenenbaum, MIT
Nick Turk-Browne, Yale
Yael Vinker, Tel Aviv University
Ed Vul, UCSD
Caren Walker. UCSD
Jeff Wammes, Queens
Xiaolong Wang, UC San Diego
Lionel Wong, MIT
Mike Wu, Stanford
Dan Yamins, Stanford

Selected Alumni

Felix Binder (2025 PhD)
Holly Huey (2024 PhD; now: Applied Research Scientist at Adobe)
Will McCarthy (2024 PhD; now: Research Scientist at Autodesk Research)
Haoliang Wang (2024 PhD; now: postdoc at MIT)
Xuanchen (Charles) Lu (2023 Masters; now: PhD student at the University of Michigan)
Zoe Tait (2024 Research Staff, 2023 Lab Manager, 2022 Research Assistant)
Hannah Lloyd (2023 Masters)
Lauren Oey (2023 PhD; now: Research Scientist at Netflix)
Vryan Feliciano
Sirui Tao (2021-2022; HDSI Undergraduate Research Fellowship)
Justin Yang (2022 Lab Manager, 2022 Honors Thesis, 2021 TRELS Scholar, 2020 Chancellor’s URS Program; now: PhD student at Stanford)
Jack Terwilliger (2022 rotation; COGS PhD program)
Ronen Tamari (2021-22 Visiting PhD student)
Cameron Holdaway (2022 Masters; now at Apple)
Jane Yang (2022 Honors Thesis, 2022 TRELS Scholar; now: UT Austin Developmental Intelligence Lab)
David Guirgus (2021 STARS Program)
Zhe Huang (2021 TRELS Scholar)
Julia Xu (2020 HDSI UG Scholar)
Tone Xu (2019-2020 PhD affiliate; COGS PhD program)
Hui Xin Ng (2019 rotation; COGS PhD program)