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Name	Conferral Year	Dissertation Title	Initial Placement	Last Known Position (if different)
Soulos, Paul	2025	Unifying Neural and Symbolic Computation for Compositional Generalization: Representation and Processing	Principal Technical Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft AI
McMahon, Emalie	2024	Hierarchical Computations of Social Interaction Perception in the Human Mind and Brain	Postdoctoral Associate, McGovern Inst. for Brain Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pasquinelli, Rennie	2024	Do rules rule tense learning in people with Williams syndrome? Tense knowledge in typical and atypical development	MS in Marriage & Family Therapy Northwestern University
Arehalli, Suhas	2023	Structural Representations in Online Syntactic Processing: An Artificial Neural Network Approach	Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science Macalester College
Nguyen, An	2023	Acquiring Syntactic Variation: Regularization in Wh-Question Production	Human Factors Consultant SEA Ltd.
Neophytou, Kyriaki	2023	Selection in Written Language Production: Evidence from Aphasia	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Neurology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Zhu, Hongru	2023	Investigating compositional visual knowledge through challenging visual tasks	Sr Applied Research Scientist Cruise
McCoy, Tom	2022	Implicit compositional structure in artificial neural networks	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Princeton Univ.	Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics Yale Univ.
Prasad, Grusha	2022	Towards Characterizing Incremental Structure Building During Sentence Comprehension	Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science Colgate Univ.
Li, S.P. Donald	2021	Computational Models of Feature Representations in the Ventral Visual Stream	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins Univ.	Visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins Univ.
Lalisse, Matthias	2021	Structure assembly in knowledge base representation	Independent Consultant
Srinivas, Sadhwi	2021	The semantics of (in)definiteness in bare vs. non-bare nominals: A study of Kannada and English	Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics Dept. of English College of William & Mary
Kim, Najoung	2021	Compositional Linguistic Generalization in Artificial Neural Networks	Faculty Fellow Center for Data Science New York Univ.	Assistant Professor Depts. of Linguistics & Computer Science Boston Univ.
Litovsky, Celia	2021	Structural Connectivity Underlying Executive Processing in Post-stroke Aphasia	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders Temple Univ.	Research Scientist Lexia Learning
Lutken, C. Jane	2021	Cross-Linguistic Investigations of Syntactic Creativity Errors In Children's Wh-Questions	Postdoctoral Associate Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers Univ.	Assistant Professor Psychology Dept. Western Carolina Univ.
Davis, E. Emory	2020	Does Seeing Mean Believing? The Development of Children's Semantic Representations for Perception Verbs	Postdoctoral Fellow School of Education & Dept. of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins Univ.	Research Specialist, Title I Office of Research Baltimore County Public Schools
Clothier, Karen	2020	The Many Meanings of Many: A Pragmatic-Semantic Account of Ambiguous, Vague Quantifiers with Experimental Support	Spectrum Policy and Regulations Analyst Teltrium Solutions, LLC	Senior Spectrum Policy and Regulations Analyst Teltrium Solutions, LLC
Chaisilprungraung, Pang	2020	Axes in Object-Centered Shape Representation: Insights from Mirror-Image Reflection Errors	Postdoctoral Research Fellow Walter Reed Army Institute of Research	Research Scientist King Mongkut's University of Technology
Ellenblum, Gali	2019	Cognitive and Computational Modeling of Handwriting	Machine Learning Engineer Apple	Manager Safe Browsing Google
Park, Jeongho	2018	Neural Coding of Navigational Distance and Functional Constraint of a Local Scene Boundary	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Harvard Univ.	Research Associate Dept. of Psychology Harvard Univ.
Wiley, Robert W.	2018	How Learning Experience Shapes the Cognitive and Neural Representations of Letters	Lecturer Dept. of Psychology UNC Greensboro	Assistant Professor Dept of Psychology UNC Greensboro
Chodroff, Eleanor R.	2017	Structured Variation in Obstruent Production and Perception	Postdoctoral Researcher Dept. of Linguistics Northwestern Univ.	Assistant Professor Dept. of Computational Linguistics University of Zürich
Atkinson, Emily E.	2016	Active dependency completion in adults and children: Representations and adaptation	Language Learning Visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of Michigan	Assistant Professor Dept of Language Studies University of Toronto
Breining, Bonnie L.	2016	Effects of Semantic and Segmental Similarity on the Production and Learning of Spoken and Written Words	Postdoctoral Fellow SCORE Lab Dept. of Neurology Johns Hopkins Medicine
Rothlein, David	2015	Letter Representation in the Mind and Brain	Postdoctoral Researcher VA Boston Healthcare System
Ferrara, Katrina	2015	Neural and behavioral sensitivity to boundary cues across typical and atypical development	Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Brain Plasticity & Recovery Children's National Medical Center	Science Policy Analyst Office of Autism Research Coordination US Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee
Schubert, Teresa	2015	Cognitive processes of letter and digit identification	Postdoctoral Research Fellow ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition & its Disorders Macquarie Univ.	Senior Editor, Springer Nature Group
Johannes, Kristen N.	2015	Geometric and functional knowledge in the acquisition of spatial language	STEM Research Associate WestEd	Senior Research Associate Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics WestEd
Hsin, Lisa	2014	Explorations in Integrated Bilingual Grammatical Architecture	Postdoctoral Scholar Dept. of Philosophy Tufts Univ.	Associate Professor Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling The Univ. of Alabama
Kirov, Christo	2014	A Bayesian approach to speech production	Postdoctoral Assist. Prof. Dept. of Linguistics Georgetown Univ.	Research Software Engineer Google AI
Gurcanlı, Özge	2013	Development of lexical and syntactic representations: The Acquisition of symmetrical and asymmetrical verbs	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Rice Univ.	Science Policy & Programs Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
Rissman, Lilia	2013	Event participant representations and the instrumental role: A Cross-linguistic study	Postdoctoral Scholar Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Chicago	Assistant Professor Dept. of Psychology Rochester Institute of Technology
Beller, Charles	2013	Anaphoric descriptions	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins Univ.	Principal Data Scientist & NLP Lead: Manager, Customer Care Elite IBM
Zaroukian, Erin	2013	Quantification and (un)certainty	Postdoctoral Fellow Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique École Normale Supérieure	Cognitive Scientist Computational and Information Sciences US Army Research Lab
Vindiola, Manuel	2013	Representational similarity: A Uniform method for guiding sequence production and constraining response selection during serial order production in spelling	Postdoctoral Fellow Computational & Info Sciences, US Army Research Lab	AI Research Scientist US Army Research Lab
Wolmetz, Michael	2011	How we store the sounds of words: Examining the predictions of abstract and exemplar theories of spoken word recognition	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins Univ.	Program Manager Human & Machine Intelligence, Research & Exploratory Development Dept. JHU Applied Physics Lab
Fischer-Baum, Simon J.	2011	Position representation: General principles or domain-specificity?	Postdoctoral Researcher Beckman Inst. Univ. of Illinois	Associate Professor Dept. of Psychology Rice Univ.
Ramadoss, Deepti	2011	The Phonology and phonetics of tone perception	Research Scientist Dept. of Neurology & Neuroscience Johns Hopkins Univ.	Director for Training, Assessment, and Career Exploration Univ. of Pittsburgh
Culbertson, Jennifer L.	2010	Learning biases, regularization, and the emergence of typological universals in syntax	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Univ. of Rochester	Professor & Director of the Centre for Language Evolution, Dept. of Linguistics & English Language, Univ. of Edinburgh
Yarmolinskaya, Julia	2010	Perception and acquisition of second language phonology	Postdoctoral Fellow School of Education Johns Hopkins Univ.	Senior Lecturer Dept. of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins Univ.
López-González, Mónica	2010	Ser and Estar: Their syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and acquisition in Mexican Spanish	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Otolaryngology Johns Hopkins Univ.	Co-Founder & CEO Cognitive Insights for Artificial Intelligence; Sr. Lecturer Dept. of Computer Science Johns Hopkins Univ.
Gregory, Emma	2010	Representing the orientation of objects: Evidence from mirror image confusion	Postdoctoral Fellow Neuro-Education Initiative Johns Hopkins Univ.	Branch Chief, Science & Technology Portfolio Management Defense Health Agency
Goldberg, Ariel M.	2010	Gradient well-formedness across the morpheme boundary	Instructor Dept. of Psychology Tufts Univ.	Associate Professor Dept. of Psychology Tufts Univ.
Morley, Rebecca L.	2009	Generalization, lexical statistics, and typologically rare systems	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Linguistics Ohio State Univ.	Associate Professor Dept. of Linguistics Ohio State Univ.
Wayment, Adam	2009	Assimilation as attraction: Computing distance, similarity and locality in phonology	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Carnegie Mellon Univ.	Principal Program Manager Lead Accessibility + AI Microsoft
Dessalegn, Banchiamlack G.	2009	A Vision of language: The mechanism, development and consequence of an interaction between language and vision	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Chicago	Director MSI Reproductive Choices, Africa
Finley, Sara R.	2009	Formal and cognitive restrictions on vowel harmony	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Science Univ. of Rochester	Associate Professor Dept. of Psychology Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Medina, Tamara Nicol	2007	Learning which verbs allow object omission: Verb semantic selectivity and the implicit object construction	Postdoctoral Fellow Inst. of Research in Cognitive Science Univ. of Pennsylvania	Associate Teaching Professor Dept. of Psychology Emory University
Jarosz-Snover, Gaja E.	2006	Rich lexicons and restrictive grammars - maximum likelihood learning in optimality theory	Visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst	Professor Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Medina, O. Jared	2006	Somatosensory frames of reference	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Neurology Univ. of Pennsylvania	Associate Teaching Professor Dept. of Psychology Emory Univ.
Chen-Main, Joan C.	2006	On the generation and linearization of multi-dominance structures	Postdoctoral Fellow Inst. for Research in Cognitive Science Univ. of Pennsylvania	Data Journalist Barna Group
Savova, Virginia Z.	2006	Structures and strings	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT	Distinguished Scientist Precision Immunology Sanofi
Buchwald, Adam B.	2005	Sound structure representation, repair and well-formedness: Grammar in spoken language production	Postdoctoral Research Fellow Speech Research Lab Indiana Univ.	Professor Dept. of Communicative Sciences & Disorders New York Univ. Steinhardt
Lakusta, Laura M.	2005	Source and goal asymmetry in non-linguistic motion event representations	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Harvard Univ.	Professor Dept. of Psychology Montclair State Univ.
Dilks, Daniel D.	2005	Human adult cortical reorganization and consequent visual distortion	Postdoctoral Researcher McGovern Inst. for Brain Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Associate Professor Dept. of Psychology Emory Univ.
Davidson, Lisa B.	2003	The Atoms of phonological representation: Gestures, coordination and perceptual features in consonant cluster phonotactics	Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics New York Univ.	Professor Dept. of Linguistics New York Univ.
Hale, John T.	2003	Grammar, uncertainty and sentence processing.	Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian & African Languages Michigan State Univ.	Professor Dept. of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins Univ.
Goldrick, Matthew A. A.	2002	Patterns of sounds, patterns in mind: Phonological regularities in speech production	Postdoctoral Research Associate Dept. of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences Brown Univ.	Professor Dept. of Linguistics Northwestern Univ.
Frantisek Kuminiak	2001	The Role of lexical ambiguity in the production of subject-verb agreement	Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Psychology Rice Univ.	Sr. Consultant Softec
Wilson, Colin C.	2000	Targeted constraints: An approach to contextual neutralization in optimality theory	Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of California, Los Angeles	Professor Dept. of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins Univ.
Allen, Mark D.	2000	The Representation and processing of inflected forms in a multilevel lexical system	Research Scientist Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Washington	Director of Concussion Research CognitiveFX
Gafos, Adamantios I.	1996	The Articulatory basis of locality in phonology	Visiting Assistant Professor Univ. of Massachusetts	Professor Dept. of Linguistics Universitat Postdam
Leek, E. Charles	1996	The Representation of object orientation	Postdoctoral Research Fellow Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale Universite Pierre Mendes	Professor Dept. of Health and Life Sciences Univ. of Liverpool
Whalen, John W.	1996	The Influence of semantic number representations on arithmetic fact retrieval	Assistant Professor Cognitive Psychology & Cognitive Science Univ. of Delaware	Founder Partner, Psychological Insights & Innovation Brilliant
Cartwright, Timothy A.	1996	Early acquisition of syntactic categories: Theory and simulations	Software Developer Applied Physics Lab Johns Hopkins Univ.	Sr. Systems Programmer Center for High Throughput Computing, Dept. of Computer Sciences Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Chialant, Doriana	1995	Identity and similarity factors in repetition blindness	Postdoctoral Respecialization Dept. of Psychology Univ. of Massachusetts	Clinical Associate Dept. of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School