Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes met with Prof. Leyla Isik to discuss a study on AI’s ability to read social cues. Researchers tested AI models ability to interpret human interactions in short videos. Dr. Isik shares the findings and their implications for AI development.

Each year, cognitive science faculty members nominate a graduating cognitive science major with the strongest combination of academic excellence, sustained and outstanding involvement in research, significant contribution to the undergraduate […]

Dr. Emalie McMahon, a recent graduate of our PhD program, received the prestigious Glushko Dissertation Prize from the Cognitive Science Society. This esteemed prize recognizes young researchers who have made significant contributions […]

It is with great pleasure that we recognize the promotion of Dr. Kyle Rawlins from Associate Professor to Full Professor earlier this spring. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kyle […]

On April 8, 2025, Dr. Brenda Rapp was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. This prestigious recognition highlights Dr. Rapp’s significant contributions to the […]

Congratulations, Prof. Leyla Isik for being honored with this year’s Elsevier/Vision Sciences Society Young Investigator Award for your important contributions to the scientific study of social vision!

The Data Science and AI Institute selected seven Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship research clusters to recruit senior faculty. Among them is an Artificial and Natural Intelligence cluster, led by Profs. Leyla Isik, Kyle Rawlins, and Alan Yuille that includes 3 BDP positions. Recruitment kicks off in 2025.

J. Hu and M. Frank were awarded an Outstanding Paper Award at the inaugural Conference on Language Modeling for their paper on “Auxiliary task demands mask the capabilities of smaller language models.”

OneNeuro is a new cross-disciplinary initiative at Hopkins that unifies a community of scientists across all scales of research from “molecules to mind” that includes neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, data scientists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, philosophers, and others.

As part of a strategic investment for a transformative expansion of the faculty, we seek candidates for three open-rank, tenure-track/tenured faculty positions in the following areas: high-level vision; interaction of language and vision; and language. These searches reflect the University’s commitment to faculty growth in Cognitive Science that contributes to large-scale investment in Data Science/AI and Neuroscience.