I am currently the lecturer for the Cognitive Science Program at Yale University. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychology department at Yale, working with Dr. Yarrow Dunham in the Social Cognitive Development Lab, and Dr. Julian Jara-Ettinger in the Computational Social Cognition Lab. I completed my PhD in Logic, Computation, and Methodology at Carnegie Mellon University in 2020, and my dissertation (Learning a Theory of Mind) was advised by Dr. David Danks.

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I study how people understand other people: that is, how do we build mental models of our social worlds (and the people in them), how do these models affect the way we treat and interact with others, and how can we build the same kind of social understanding into artificial systems? Using a combination of computational modeling, psychological experiments, and philosophical analysis, I approach these question from both a descriptive, scientific perspective (how do we, as cognitive agents, learn about the social world?) as well as a normative, philosophical perspective (how should we, as scientists, learn about human minds and societies?).

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