Mark SteyversProfessor, Cognitive Sciences Joint faculty appointment, Computer Science Joint faculty appointment, Psychology & Social Behavior |
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Research Interests |
Wisdom of Crowds; Aggregating human judgments; Computational models of the mind; Machine Learning and Statistics; Memory and Decision Making; | |
| URL | psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/ | |
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Academic Distinctions |
Best paper award at 2011 Cognitive Science Conference. Category: Applied Cognition. Best paper award at 2008 Cognitive Science Conference. Category: computational modeling of high-level cognition. Early Investigator Award from Society for Experimental Psychologists (SEP) American Psychological Association New Investigator Award (2004); Division 3 – Journal of Experimental Psychology, Learning, Memory & Cognition. |
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| Appointments |
Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University 2000—2002 |
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Research Abstract |
My research interests span a diverse set of topics in cognitive science such as wisdom of crowds, episodic and semantic memory, dynamic decision making, and causal reasoning. In each of these areas, I combine mathematical and computational modeling with behavioral experiments. The models and experiments are tightly coupled: I try to formulate empirical questions with the goals of constraining, developing, or testing between alternative computational models of how people learn, process, and represent information. My research interests also include some computer science topics in the domain of statistical machine learning and information retrieval. The adoption of recent machine learning methodology has helped me in advancing cognitive science research, especially in the area of semantic memory. | |
| Publications | see: http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/ | |
| Grants | Some recent grants: | |
| National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Title: Automating Behavioral Coding via Text-Mining and Speech Signal Processing. 2010-2015 | ||
| IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity). Title: Aggregative Contigent Estimation System. 2011 - | ||
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Professional Societies |
Cognitive Science Society Psychonomics Society Society of Experimental Psychologists |
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| Research Centers | Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences | |
| Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems, University of California, Irvine | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5064 | |
| Last updated | 09/19/2011 | |