Professor, Cognitive Sciences
School of Social Sciences

Joint faculty appointment, Computer Science
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Joint faculty appointment, Psychological Science
School of Social Ecology

Higher order cognition (learning/ memory/ decision-making/ metacognition); Computational Modeling; Aggregating human judgments; Machine Learning and Statistics; Memory and Decision Making;

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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.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University 2000—2002

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.

see: https://steyvers.socsci.uci.edu/

Some recent grants:

2017 - 2019 IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity). Title: SAGE: Synergistic Anticipation of Geopolitical Events

2015-2019 NSF, NCS-FO. Title: Understanding Individual Differences in Cognitive Performance: Joint Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of Behavioral and Neuroimaging Data.

Cognitive Science Society

Psychonomics Society

Society of Experimental Psychologists

Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences

Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems, University of California, Irvine

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https://faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5064

Last updated
07/15/2019