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faculty
Kyle Rawlins
Professor & Chair
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- Krieger 149 | 105 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Formal semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and the interfaces of these areas, computational semantics, philosophy of language.
Education: PhD, University of California Santa Cruz
Mick Bonner
Assistant Professor
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- Krieger 153 | 107 (lab)
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Research Interests: Computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, vision, neural networks, deep learning, advanced statistical methods for neuroscience
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
John T. Hale
Professor
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- [email protected]
- Krieger 241B | 230 lab
- 410-516-7983
Research Interests: Computational linguistics, corpus methods, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Jennifer Hu
Assistant Professor, Interim Colloquium Chair
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- Krieger 167 | 113 lab
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Research Interests: Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, pragmatics, language processing, social cognition
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leyla Isik (she/her/hers)
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
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- Krieger 151 | 119 (lab)
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Research Interests: Computational cognitive neuroscience, vision, social perception, neural networks
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Annemarie Kocab (she/her)
Assistant Professor
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- Krieger 155 | 131 (lab)
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Research Interests: Language emergence, language acquisition, language processing, signed languages, psycholinguistics
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Barbara Landau
Dick and Lydia Todd Professor
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- Krieger 241A | 231 (lab)
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Research Interests: Human knowledge of language and space, typical and atypical development
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Géraldine Legendre
Professor
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Research Interests: Adult and child syntax; Optimality Theory; models of the interfaces; cross-linguistic variation
Education: PhD, University of California San Diego
Michael McCloskey
Professor, Homewood IRB Chair
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- [email protected]
- Krieger 143A | 143 (lab)
- 410-516-5325
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Research Interests: Reading and writing, visual perception, cognitive neuropsychology, foundations of cognitive science
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Brenda Rapp
Research Professor
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- Krieger 135A | 135 (lab)
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Research Interests: Cognitive neuropsychology, attention, reading and writing
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Margaret E. L. Renwick (she/her)
Associate Research Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Krieger 169 | 115B (lab)
- 410-516-7980
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Research Interests: Sociophonetics, laboratory phonology, phonetics, speech acoustics, linguistics
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Colin Wilson
Professor
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- Krieger 247 | 138 (lab)
Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental phonology, phonetics, cross-language perception and production, computational modeling
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Alan Yuille
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science & Computer Science
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- Clark 324B
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Research Interests: Computational models of vision, mathematical models of cognition, and artificial intelligence and neural networks
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Teaching Faculty
Pasha Koval (he/him)
Visiting Assistant Professor
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- Krieger 243
Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental syntax, psycholinguistics
Education: PhD, University of Connecticut
Uyen Le (she/her/hers)
Junior Lecturer/Professional TA
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- Krieger 171
Education: MA, Johns Hopkins University
Julia Yarmolinskaya
Senior Lecturer
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- Krieger 171
Research Interests: Perception and acquisition of second language phonology
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Yuanfang Zhao (he/him)
Lecturer
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- Krieger 245
Research Interests: Computational cognitive neuroscience, naturalistic vision, neural networks
Education: PhD, Beijing Normal University
administrative staff
Sarah Ciotola (she/her/hers)
Sr. Administrative Manager
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- [email protected]
- Krieger 237E
- 410-516-6844
Chamera Sampson (she/her/hers)
Sr. Academic Program Coordinator
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- Krieger 237B
- 410-516-0382
Bernard Nwankwo
Sr. Systems Administrator, KSAS IT
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- Krieger 173
lab staff
Charlie Ainsworth
Sign Linguistics Research Assistant for the Language Creation & Learning Lab
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Donovan Catt
Sign Linguistics Research Assistant for the Language Creation & Learning Lab
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Avery Kaye
Research Coordinator for the Language and Cognition (Landau) Lab
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Research Interests: Behavioral and neuroimaging techniques in the developing brain
Wenshuo Qin
Research Coordinator for the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Isik) Lab
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- [email protected]
- Krieger 119
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Jennifer Shea
Sr Research Program Coordinator for the Cognitive & Brain Sciences Lab
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postdocs and research scientists
Abdul-Rahim Deeb
Postdoctoral Fellow for the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
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- Krieger 119 Lab
Donnie Dunagan
Postdoctoral Fellow for the Hale Lab
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- Krieger 230 Lab
Research Interests: Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and parsing.
Zhenan Shao
Postdoctoral Fellow for the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
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- Krieger 119 Lab
Research Interests: Visual perception, Brain-inspired artificial intelligence, Computational modeling, Neural representations
Yuan Tao
Assistant Research Scientist for the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Lab
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- Krieger 135 Lab
Research Interests: Reading and writing, aphasia recovery, statistical machine learning, neuroimaging, brain connectivity
Affiliated faculty
Marina Bedny
Secondary Appointment; Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Brain development and plasticity, cognitive neuroscience, concepts
Justin Bledin
Secondary Appointment; Associate Professor, Philosophy
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Research Interests: Logic, philosophy of language (esp. formal semantics), epistemology
Dana Boatman
Joint Appointment; Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Research Interests: Speech perception, auditory processing disorders, auditory neurophysiology
John E. Desmond
Joint Appointment; Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Research Interests: Neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation methods to investigate neural correlates of behavior
Jason Eisner
Joint Appointment; Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science
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Research Interests: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, statistical machine learning
Lisa Feigenson
Secondary Appointment; Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Cognitive development
Chaz Firestone
Secondary Appointment; Associate Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Perception, attention, visual cognition, foundations of cognitive science
Jonathan Flombaum
Secondary Appointment; Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Visual perception, attention, cognition
Barry Gordon
Joint Appointment; Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Research Interests: Cognitive neurology, cognitive neuroscience, language, aphasia, memory, amnesia, and memory disorders, autism, computational models of cognition
Steven Gross
Secondary Appointment; Professor, Philosophy, Foundations of Mind Group
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Research Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics
Justin Halberda
Secondary Appointment; Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Cognitive and developmental psychology
Argye Hillis
Joint Appointment; Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Research Interests: Language impairments in acute stroke, hemispatial neglect after stroke, relationship between cognitive impairments and regions of hypoperfused brain
Shari Liu
Secondary Appointment; Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience, infant cognition, social cognition
Brice Ménard
Secondary Appointment; Professor, Physics and Astronomy
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Research Interests: Machine Learning, astrophysics & complex systems
Tianmin Shu
Joint Appointment; Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science
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Research Interests: Social AI, human-robot interaction, and computational social cognition
Kyrana Tsapkini
Joint Appointment; Associate Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine
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Research Interests: language--combining cognitive science, psychology, neural science approaches
Benjamin Van Durme
Joint Appointment; Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science
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Research Interests: Natural language processing, specifically semantics; streaming/randomized algorithms
Robert Wiley
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Cognitive & Brain Sciences Lab (Rapp Lab)
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Research Interests: Cognitive science and education, mental representation and learning, neural plasticity, second language acquisition
Alex Lu
Fellow by Courtesy in the Language Creation and Learning Lab
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Research Interests: Artificial intelligence; computer vision; medical, health and genomics
Jeremy Purcell
Fellow by Courtesy in the Cognitive & Brain Sciences Lab (Rapp Lab)
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Research Interests: Written language representation and brain injury
Emeriti
Luigi Burzio
Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Theoretical phonology, morphology, and syntax; romance linguistics
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Smolensky (he/him)
Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Universal grammar in Optimality Theory, integration of connectionist ('neural') and symbolic computation: computational, linguistic, and philosophical issues
Education: PhD, Indiana University
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