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Career

· PhD Student in Psychology, Stanford University2021–
· Research Intern, Rationality Enhancement Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems2020–
· Research Intern, Cognitive Lexicon Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto2019–
· B.Sc. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, University of Toronto2017–2021

Publications (17)

Why think step-by-step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2023
136
cited
Psychologically-informed chain-of-thought prompts for metaphor understanding in large language models
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2022
22
cited
Resource-rational Models of Human Goal Pursuit
Topics in Cognitive Science · 2021
10
cited
Cultural reinforcement learning: a framework for modeling cumulative culture on a limited channel
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2023
8
cited
The Emergence of Gender Associations in Child Language Development
Cognitive Sciences · 2022
5
cited
Scaling up the think-aloud method
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2025
3
cited
Toward a normative theory of (self-)management by goal-setting
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2023
2
cited
Idiosyncratic but not opaque: Linguistic conventions formed in reference games are interpretable by naïve humans and vision-language models
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2025
1
cited
Tracing the Emergence of Gendered Language in Childhood
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2020
1
cited
Improving Short and Long-term Learning in an Online Homework System
CSEDM@EDM · 2020
Language and Experience: A Computational Model of Social Learning in Complex Novel Tasks
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2025
Language and Experience: A Computational Model of Social Learning in Complex Tasks
arXiv.org · 2025
Lossy communication constrains iterated learning
arXiv.org · 2025
Simple, Scalable Reasoning via Iterated Summarization
Thinking fast, slow, and everywhere in between in humans and language models
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2025
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