Events / MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellows – Interview Day

MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellows – Interview Day

March 11, 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

online offering

Join us for virtual short talks by MindCORE Fellowship candidates.
For the Zoom link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu

 

Fabian Baumann – Cultural Evolution & Cognitive Science
9:10-9:50am

Studies how culture evolves as a collaborative process influenced by both social interactions and intelligent algorithms. In his research, he uses different methods, including dynamical systems modeling, natural language processing, as well as network science, which he studied during his Ph.D. in physics.

 

Erin Isbilen – Psycholinguistics
9:50-10:30am

How do people learn language in the face of its vast complexity? My research investigates how domain-general cognitive mechanisms can explain many complex linguistic behaviors, from word learning to sentence processing.

 

Jesus Manuel Villarreal Ulloa – Cognitive Sciences
10:35-11:15am
Categorization in changing environments

 

Xiaozhi (Taro) Yang – Psychology
11:15-11:55am

Computational social scientist with expertise in using process tracing to understand human behavior