learning.understanding.cognition.intelligence.data science

People

Faculty and Core Participants

Timothy Rogers

Credentials: Professor, Psychology

Position title: PI, Director

Computational models of human learning, memory, and language

Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu

Credentials: Professor, Computer Science

Position title: Co-PI, Co-director

Machine Learning, machine teaching, natural language processing

Martha Alibali

Credentials: Professor, Psychology

Position title: Co-PI

Cognitive development and education

Rob Nowak

Credentials: Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Position title: Co-PI

Machine learning, optimization, signal processing, sparsity

Martina Rau

Credentials: Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology

Position title: Co-PI

Intelligent tutoring systems for elementary and university education

Chuck Kalish

Credentials: Professor, Educational Psychology

Position title: Core Faculty

Cognitive Development, inductive inference, social cognition

David Kaplan

Credentials: Professor, Educational Psychology

Position title: Core Faculty

Quantitative methods in education and behavioral sciences

Percival Matthews

Credentials: Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Position title: Core Faculty

Cognitive approaches to mathematical representation and learning

Bilge Mutlu

Credentials: Associate Professor, Computer Science

Position title: Core Faculty

Human/computer interaction, robotics, social machine behavior

Rebecca Willett

Credentials: Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Position title: Core Faculty

Machine learning, optimization, signal processing, sparsity

Kate McCleary

Credentials: Associate Researcher, WCER

Position title: Evaluator

Intercultural learning, university-partnerships, empowerment, underrepresented minorities and women in STEM

Christine Pribbenow

Credentials: LEAD Center Director, WCER

Position title: Evaluator

Student and faculty learning, educational programming, underrepresented minorities and women in STEM

Caitlin Iverson

Credentials: Program Manager

Science communication, professional development, university-community partnerships

Graduate Students: Cohort 1

John Vito Binzak

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Educational Psychology

Projects: Beyond Magnitude, Brain Imaging

Vince Frigo

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Project: False Beliefs

Blake Mason

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project: Chemistry Learning

Rui Meng

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Educational Psychology

Project: OMELET

Ayon Sen

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Computer Sciences

Project: OMELET

Scott Sievert

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project: NEXT

Graduate Students: Cohort 2

Mohan Ji

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Project: Visual Perception

Lowell Thompson

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience

Visual Perception, Psychophysics, Electrophysiology, Neural Network Modeling

Graduate Students: Cohort 3

Ashley Hou

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Machine Learning

Harrison Rosenberg

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Graph Theory, and Engineering Education

Fangyun (Olivia) Zhao

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Project: Social Robotics
Emotions, Social Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction,

Graduate Students: Cohort 4

Pablo Caceres

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Cognitive Science and Machine Learning

Raymond Doudlah

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience

Multisensory integration, sensorimotor associations, machine learning

Gaylen Fronk

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Machine Learning and Precision Medicine

Owen Levin

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Machine Learning Theory

Rahul Parhi

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Theoretical Machine Learning

Sarah Sant’Ana

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Classification and Prediction of Addictive Behaviors

Melissa Schoenlein

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Visual perception, color cognition, learning and transfer

Graduate Students: Cohort 5

Lauren Anthony

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Math Learning and Cognition

Matt Borman

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Semantics in Word Learning

Yun-Shiuan (Sean) Chuang

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Email: chuang@wisc.edu

Human mathematical cognition, Computational modeling, Machine Learning, Cognitive neuroscience

Kushin Mukherjee

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Visual cognition and graphical production

Glenn Palmer

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Computer Sciences

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Education

Laura Stegner

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Computer Sciences

Human-Computer Interaction, Social Robotics

Graduate Students: Cohort 6

Ivette Colón

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Visual cognition, machine learning, familiarity

Kendra Wyant

Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology

Machine Learning and Digital Phenotyping

Independent Program Advisory Committee

Richard Baraniuk

Professor in the Engineering school at Rice University and founder of OpenStax, who works to develop free personalized education materials

Ken Keodinger

Professor of Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University whose research focuses on technology and education

James L McClelland

National Academy of Sciences member who pioneered the application of neural networks to understanding human cognition