I am an Applied Scientist at Adobe where I've been working on better conversational AI systems.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... I was an academic. My research broadly focused on how people learn and reason with concepts and categories, and how this knowledge is structured for useful inference. In particular, my work explored how interactions between inference and representation guide reasoning to enable efficient search and retrieval from semantic memory; to infer the appropriate level of generalization of meaning from few examples; and to help determine what makes something a good or bad member of a category.

My work combined approaches from machine learning and cognitive science, where sometimes I used methods from AI/ML to evaluate cognitive models and theories, and sometimes I used methods from cognitive science to improve the correspondence between AI/ML and cognitive models of generalization, and semantic representation.

I completed my PhD at UC Berkeley in Tom Griffiths' Computational Cognitive Science Lab, and postdocs at the Center for Adaptive Rationality in the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and at the Complex Human Data Hub in the University of Melbourne.

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