News & Announcements Archive

Two Seniors Receive Excellence in Cognitive Science Award

Each spring, our faculty members choose a graduating cognitive science major with the strongest combination of academic excellence and outstanding accomplishments in research. This year, two seniors were selected: Kimberly Wong and Mingyu Yang. Congratulations!

Alumni Networking Happy Hour

Alumni Networking Happy Hour

JH Grad Students: Want to learn more about non-traditional research-related jobs? Meet and chat with alumni from the psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science graduate programs who made the move! Please RSVP.

Recent Graduate Accepts Apple Offer

Recent Graduate Accepts Apple Offer

Gali Ellenblum, recent PhD alum, accepted an offer from Apple to work as a Machine Learning Engineer! Congrats, Gali!

Two Google Faculty Research Awards

Two Google Faculty Research Awards

Profs. Tal Linzen and Leyla Isik were named 2018 Google Faculty Research Award recipients in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Computational Neuroscience, respectively. This award program recognizes and supports “world-class, permanent faculty pursuing cutting-edge research in areas of mutual interest” (i.e. Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields).

Dr. Linzen Interviewed on NLP Podcast

Dr. Linzen Interviewed on NLP Podcast

Prof. Tal Linzen was interviewed, along with Afra Alishahi (Tilburg University), for an Natural Language Processing podcast. Prof. Linzen makes the case for the effectiveness of cognitive science in analyzing neural networks. Take a listen…

Barbara Landau Named a Gilman Scholar

Barbara Landau Named a Gilman Scholar

Dr. Barbara Landau was recently named a Gilman Scholar, a distinction that honors and celebrates select Johns Hopkins faculty who embody the highest standards of scholarship and research across the university.

Michael Bonner Joins the Department!

Michael Bonner Joins the Department!

We welcome Dr. Michel Bonner as our newest assistant professor. Until recently, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at UPenn. Mick will start January 1st.  Welcome to the team, Mick!

Lab Spotlight: Professor Tal Linzen

Lab Spotlight: Professor Tal Linzen

The JHU News-Letter featured Prof. Tal Linzen in this week’s Lab Spotlight. Check it out!

Jane Lutken Receives NSF Research Grant

Jane Lutken Receives NSF Research Grant

PhD student Jane Lutken received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award to pursue her research project on “Cross-Linguistic Investigations of Syntactic Creativity Errors in Children’s Wh-questions” in Germany next year. Brava, Jane!

Undergraduate Rebecca Lin Co-Authored an Article

Undergraduate Rebecca Lin Co-Authored an Article

Rebecca Lin is the lead author on an article entitled “Visualized Emotion Ontology: a model for representing visual cues of emotions,” which was recently published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making! Rebecca is a cognitive science major entering her junior year.