CORE CC LAB MEMBERS  


Michael N. Jones, Ph.D., Lab Director [CV]

Mike completed his graduate work at Queen's University in Canada and then spent two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado. In 2006, he moved to Indiana University as Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Informatics/Computing.

Mike's research can be broadly defined as computational approaches to human language and memory, and artificial intelligent systems.


Gabriel Recchia, B.Sc., Graduate Student (PhD5)

Gabe completed his undergraduate work at Stanford University in Symbolic Systems. In 2007 he began the Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science at IU and joined the CLC Lab. Gabe's interests are generally in the area of language, semantic organization, and how the statistical structure of the environement interacts with learning mechanisms.


Brendan Johns, B.Sc., Graduate Student (PhD5)

Brendan completed his undergraduate work at Queen's University in Computing Science and Cognitive Science. In 2007 he began the joint Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science and Psychological and Brain Sciences at IU and joined the CLC Lab. Brendan's interests are in the area of learning and memory, computational models of cognition, and intelligent systems for knowledge abstraction in large textbases.


Sean Matthews, B.Sc., Graduate Student (PhD4)

Sean completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology with Curt Burgess at UC Riverside. He began the joint program in Cognitive Science and Psychology in 2008. Sean's interests are in computational models of learning from contextual redundancy, and he is currently working on a project modeling the process of semantic degradation in Alzheimer's Disease.
Greg Cox, B.Sc., Graduate Student (PhD3)

Greg completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Maryland. He joined the CC Lab in the Fall of 2009 as a graduate student in Psychological and Brain Sciences. Greg's interests are very diverse, ranging from computational models of learning and memory to automated music composition.


Brent Kievit-Kylar, B.Sc., Graduate Student (PhD3)

Brent completed his undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science and Computing Science at Queen's University. He joined the CC Lab in the Fall of 2009 as a graduate student in Cognitive Science working jointly with Matthias Scheutz's Human Robot Interaction Lab.



Melody Dye, B.Sc., Graduate Student (PhD1)

Melody completed her undergraduate work at Stanford University in Michael Ramscar's lab. She began the PhD program in Cognitive Science in the fall of 2011 working jointly with CCL and Rich Shiffrin's Memory and Perception Lab.

RECENT LAB ALUMNI


Brian Riordan, Ph.D.

Dr. Riordan was both a graduate student and postdoc in the lab from 2006-2009. He earned his PhD in Cognitive Science and Computational Linguistics in 2008, and was then a NICHD and FRSP funded postdoctoral fellow conducting computer simulations to better understand 1) the role of perceptual grounding in linguistic learning, and 2) how semantic models can be used to understand developmental trajectories in children.

Brian is now Modeling and Simulation Scientist at Aptima Human-Centered Engineering.

Vanessa Taler, Ph.D.

Dr. Taler completed her MA in Linguistics at McGill University and her PhD in Neuropsychology at the University of Montreal. From 2007-2009 she was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab, leading a study joining us with Andy Saykin's neuroimaging group in the IU School of Medicine to study computational models of semantic memory degradation in patients with Alzheimer's disease (Funded by FRSP and NIH-CTR).

Vanessa is now Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Ottawa

Andreas Wilke, Ph.D.

Dr. Wilke completed his graduate work at the Free University of Berlin, and has since been a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and at at UCLA. In 2008-09 Andreas led a project jointly with the CC Lab and Peter Todd's ABC Lab on modeling reaction time distributions from subjects searching semantic memory.

Andreas is now Assistant Professor of Psychology at Clarkson University

David Landy, Ph.D.

David was a graduate student in Rob Goldstone's Percepts and Concepts Lab. He led a project in the CLC Lab using eye tracking to evaluate how humans process mathematical equations. Click here to read a sample paper from that work.

David is now Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Richmond

Thomas Hills, Ph.D.

Thomas led an FRSP-funded project from 2007-2009 jointly with the CLC Lab and Peter Todd's ABC Lab on modeling the process of search in semantic memory.

Thomas is now Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick.

 

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