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Alumni Testimonials

Here are some of the many extraordinary alumni of Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Cognitive Science graduate programs, in their own words.

To see a complete list of our alumni, initial positions, and current positions, please visit our PhD Alumni or MA Alumni pages.

Kyriaki Neophytou, PhD 2023

Current Position:  Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Through my training I developed a solid theoretical understanding of cognitive science and expertise in a variety of research methods, which allowed me to establish myself as a cognitive neuroscientist.

Tom McCoy, PhD 2021

Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Yale University
The [PhD] program taught me how to ask the right questions and how to tackle these questions from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. This training made me incredibly well-prepared for a career in linguistics and artificial intelligence.