cognitive tools lab

reverse engineering the human cognitive toolkit

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Principal Investigator

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Judith Fan

Assistant Professor of Psychology

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Lab Manager

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Arnav Verma

Research Staff

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Xuanchen (Charles) Lu

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Zoe Tait

Postdocs

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Erik Brockbank

PhD Students

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Sean Anderson

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Felix Binder

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Sebastian Holt

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Holly Huey

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Hannah Lloyd

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Will McCarthy

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Haoliang Wang

Lab Affiliates

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Kushin Mukherjee

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Lionel Wong

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Justin Yang

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Rebecca Zhu

Current Undergraduate Students

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Rio Aguina-Kang

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
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
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

Lauren Oey (2023 PhD); now: postdoc at Princeton University
Vryan Feliciano
Sirui Tao (2021-2022; HDSI Undergraduate Research Fellowship)
Justin Yang (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)