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Career

· Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University2024–
· C.V. Starr Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Neuroscience Institute2019–2024
· PhD, Psychology, Stanford University2019–
· BS, Cognitive Science and Mathematics, Indiana University2014–

Publications (142)

Colors in Context: A Pragmatic Neural Model for Grounded Language Understanding
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2017
136
cited
Simulating Opinion Dynamics with Networks of LLM-based Agents
NAACL-HLT · 2023
134
cited
The Emergence of Social Norms and Conventions
Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2019
112
cited
When redundancy is useful: A Bayesian approach to "overinformative" referring expressions.
Psychology Review · 2019
90
cited
Shapeglot: Learning Language for Shape Differentiation
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision · 2019
86
cited
Path ensembles and a tradeoff between communication efficiency and resilience in the human connectome
Brain Structure and Function · 2016
83
cited
From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention
Psychology Review · 2021
67
cited
Learning Rewards from Linguistic Feedback
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020
61
cited
Characterizing the dynamics of learning in repeated reference games
Cognitive Sciences · 2019
60
cited
Bootstrap Methods for the Empirical Study of Decision-Making and Information Flows in Social Systems
Entropy · 2013
59
cited
Shared functional specialization in transformer-based language models and the human brain
bioRxiv · 2023
59
cited
Abstract Visual Reasoning with Tangram Shapes
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2022
53
cited
Conducting real-time multiplayer experiments on the web
Behavior Research Methods · 2014
48
cited
The Division of Labor in Communication: Speakers Help Listeners Account for Asymmetries in Visual Perspective
Cognitive Sciences · 2018
47
cited
Convention-formation in iterated reference games
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2017
45
cited
Pragmatic Inference and Visual Abstraction Enable Contextual Flexibility During Visual Communication
Computational Brain & Behavior · 2019
43
cited
Reconstructing the cascade of language processing in the brain using the internal computations of a transformer-based language model
43
cited
Why do you ask? Good questions provoke informative answers
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2015
42
cited
Improving the Replicability of Psychological Science Through Pedagogy
2018
39
cited
Continual Adaptation for Efficient Machine Communication
Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning · 2019
37
cited
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