People
Director
John Trueswell
215-898-0911, Room 477
trueswel(at)psych.upenn.edu
Director for Research and Education
Christine Massey
215-573-6293, Room 475
massey(at)seas.upenn.edu
Staff
Laurel Sweeney
Office Manager
215-898-8750, Room 467
laurels(at)seas.upenn.edu
Jessica Marcus
Events Coordinator
215-573-3013, Room 468
jmarcus(at)seas.upenn.edu
Chris Leary
IT Support
215-746-2396, Room 427C
manager3401(at)psych.upenn.edu
Faculty
Biology
Ted Abel
Molecular mechanisms of memory storage; molecular basis of sleep/wake regulation.
Dorothy Cheney
Social behavior and communication in animals (especially nonhuman primates), animal cognition
Marc Schmidt
Encoding of complex motor behaviors; auditory/motor integration; neural basis of vocal learning
Computer and Information Science
Norman Badler
Computational models of action, language and graphics
Kostas Daniilidis
Visual motion analysis, calibration and reconstruction methods for telepresence and augmented reality
Susan Davidson
Semantics of databases, bioinformatics
Jean Gallier
Logic and computation, programming language theory, automated deduction
Carl Gunter
Mathematical models of computation, logic and computation
Aravind K. Joshi
Mathematical and processing models of language
Sampath Kannan
Computational biology, graph-theoretic algorithms, randomized algorithms
Michael Kearns
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computational Game Theory, Spoken Dialogue Systems, Social Aspects of Computing,
Network Security and Cryptography
Vijay Kumar
Robotics, dynamics, motor control
Mitch Marcus
Natural language processing, corpus-based and statistical models for NLP
Ani Nenkova
Natural language processing
Fernando Pereira
Machine-learnable models of language and other natural sequential data such as biological sequences
Benjamin Pierce
Programming languages, type systems, concurrent and distributed programming
Val Tannen
Databases, Logic and Computation, Bioinformatics, Programming Languages
C.J. Taylor
Computer vision to control mobile robots, recovering 3D models of rigid scenes from images
Lyle Ungar
Machine learning, computational genomics
Shiyu Zhou
Randomness and computation (specifically, combinatorial constructions and their applications to pseudorandomness),
and data structure and algorithm design
Linguistics
Gene Buckley
Theoretical phonology; phonology-morphology interaction; Native American and Ethiopian linguistics
Robin Clark
Syntax, mathematical linguistics, learning theory, semantics
David Embick
Morphological Theory, Syntactic Theory, Language and the Brain
Anthony Kroch
Formal syntax, modern and historical Germanic syntax, statistical patterning of syntactic usage
William Labov
Speech perception and production, category formation
Mark Liberman
Phonetics, prosody, natural language processing, speech communication
Rolf Noyer
Theoretical phonology, morphology, morphosyntax
Donald Ringe
Historical linguistics, Indo-European, morphology
Maribel Romero
Formal semantics and the syntax-semantic interface
Gillian Sankoff
Pidgins and creoles, language change/development
Jiahong Yuan
Phonetics; speech prosody; speech perception; speech synthesis and recognition
Mathematics
Peter Freyd
Category theory, logic, and mathematical semantics for computation
Andre Scedrov
Logic, mathematical foundations of programming structures, proof theory, categorical semantics
Neuroscience & Bioengineering
Gershon Buchsbaum
Image coding and analysis by the visual system
Anjan Chatterjee
ChatLab
Cognitive neuroscience of spatial language, attention (spatial and temporal), and visual aesthetics
Leif Finkel
Computer simulation of the structure and function of the nervous system
Murray Grossman
Cognitive processing in aging and neurodegenerative conditions: language, short-term memory functioning, and executive control; functional brain imaging
Philosophy
Elisabeth Camp
Philosophy of language (especially pragmatics and non-literal language use), philosophy of mind (especially non-human animal cognition,
perception, and non-propositional thought), and aesthetics
Gary Hatfield
Philosophy of psychology, perception and cognition
Susan Schneider
Philosophy of cognitive science (including philosophy of mind), metaphysics, and philosophy of science
Scott Weinstein
Logic and computational learning theory
Michael Weisberg
Modeling methodology, evolutionary theory, philosophy of science
Psychology
David Brainard
Human vision, machine vision, and computational modeling of visual processing
Delphine Dahan
How adults represent and access the words they know; mapping of sound forms onto lexical representations
Martha J. Farah
Cognitive neuroscience, high level vision
Henry Gleitman
Learning, memory, language and cognition
Lila Gleitman
Language and language acquisition
Amishi Jha
Mind-Body Research
Neural bases of attention and memory
Michael Kahana
Human episodic memory for verbal, visual and spatial information
Jacob Nachmias
Visual perception (psychophysical/computational approaches to spatial vision)
Virginia Richards
Auditory perception and cognitive psychology
Robert Seyfarth
Animal communication, cognition, and social behavior; primate vocalizations and their relation to human language
Saul Sternberg
Human information processing, visual memory, timing, skilled action
Daniel Swingley
Word recognition and lexical representation in infants and young children
Sharon Thompson-Schill
Cognitive neuroscience, functional neuroimaging, memory and knowledge
John C. Trueswell, IRCS Director
Language processing, eye movements in reading, visual perception
David White
Ecological and evolutionary approach to study how the social environment can influence
learning and development of functionally important behavior
Systems Engineering
Barry Silverman
Human behavior modeling and simulation; synthesis of best-of-breed descriptive models into an integrated
cognitive, emotive, and social agent; serious games
Postdocs
Ann Bunger
Language acquisition and processing; event representation; syntax-semantics-cognition interface
Joan Chen-Main
Formal models of natural language syntax and phonology
Sarah Creel
Word recognition and phonological similarity in adults and children (language acquisition, word recognition, music perception)
Tamara Nicol Medina
Language acquisition and conceptual development, word learning, verb meaning and argument realization, syntactic theory
Eleni Miltsakaki
Natural language processing; Penn Discourse Treebank; anaphora resolution; discourse connectives
Chandan Narayan
Acoustic phonetics; adult and infant speech perception; phonetic category formation in infancy; acoustic-perceptual
influences in phonological design and sound change
Rashmi Prasad
Discourse and dialogue processing for natural language applications
Suzanne van der Feest
Speech perception; infant word recognition; phonology; language acquisition
Students
Shermin de Silva, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Animal communication & socio-ecology, social organization and vocal communication in the Asian elephant
Sarah Johnstone Drucker, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Lexical representation and lexical semantics, sentence comprehension,
and the relationship between static lexical representations and real-time, incremental language interpretation
Melanie Goetz, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Computational linguistics; parsing
Kyle Gorman, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Computational linguistics; writing systems; phonetics; phonology
Liang Huang
Computational [bio-]linguistics; theoretical computer science; parsing algorithms and grammar formalisms
Josh Jacobs, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Neural electrophysiological mechanisms underlying cognitive function
David January, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Language processing and syntax; linguistic relativity
Prashanth Reddy Mannem
Statistical parsing and parsing formalisms
Emily Pitler, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Computational linguistics; machine learning
Carolyn Quam, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Language acquisition, word learning, phonology, prosody, speech production
Maria Rakhovskaya, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Behavioral ecology and animal communication; how changes in habitat affect social behavior and physiology
of African primates
Neville Ryant, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Philosophy of Language; semantics; syntax; neurolinguistics
Partha Pratim Talukdar
Machine learning; computational linguistics; and cognitive science
Visitors
Chris Callison-Burch, Visiting Graduate Student
Computational linguistics: statistical machine translation and paraphrasing
Stephen Isard, Visiting Research Scholar
Computer speech synthesis and recognition
Anna Papafragou, Visiting Faculty
Linguistic theory, language acquisition and conceptual development; cognitive science
Researchers
Seth Kulick
Biomedical information extraction, syntax & Tree Adjoining Grammar
