People Director
David Brainard
215-573-7579
brainard(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
215-898-0333, Room 466
jmarcus(at)seas.upenn.edu
Chris Sabella
IT Support
Room 465
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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
Security, Networks, Programming Languages, Software Engineering
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
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
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Daniel Koditschek
Robotics; application of dynamical systems theory to intelligent mechanisms
David M. Magerman
Statistical natural language processing; computational finance; financial 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
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
Gillian Sankoff
Pidgins and creoles, language change/development
Florian Schwarz
Semantics, pragmatics, semantic and pragmatic processing, eye movements in reading
Charles Yang
Language acquisition, language change, computational linguistics, morphology, psycholinguistics
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
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Katherine Kuchenbecker
Haptic feedback, motor control, robotics
Vijay Kumar
Robotics, dynamics, motor control
Neurology, Neuroscience, & Bioengineering
Geoffrey Aguirre
Cortical organization for visual perception and recovery of visual function
Gershon Buchsbaum
Image coding and analysis by the visual system
Anjan Chatterjee
Cognitive neuroscience of spatial language, attention (spatial and temporal), and visual aesthetics
Yale Cohen
Understanding the representation of auditory information in the cortex, how auditory information is integrated with cognitive processes, and how auditory and visual information is combined to form unified sensory percepts
H. Branch Coslett
Human spatial cognitition, reading, semantic memory, studied with neurological patients, functional imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation
Joshua Gold
Neural basis of perceptual decision making and perceptual learning in non-human primates
Murray Grossman
Cognitive processing in aging and neurodegenerative conditions: language, short-term memory functioning, and executive control; functional brain imaging
Brian Litt
Epilepsy, implantable neurodevices, brain-computer interfaces (BCI), machine learning and statistics, computational modeling, network neuroscience
Operations and Information Management
Steven Kimbrough
Cognitive models for directing behavior in strategic interaction (games), agent-based modeling, induction and ampliative inference, and concept representation, especially as applied to text mining
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, IRCS Director
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
Jason Dana
Judgment and decision making
Russell Epstein
Visual recognition and spatial cognition in humans
Martha J. Farah
Cognitive neuroscience, high level vision
Henry Gleitman
Learning, memory, language and cognition
Lila Gleitman
Language and language acquisition
Joseph Kable
Psychological and neural mechanisms of human decision-making
Michael Kahana
Human episodic memory for verbal, visual and spatial information
Jacob Nachmias
Visual perception (psychophysical/computational approaches to spatial vision)
Nicole Rust
The neural processing underlying invariant object recognition and visual working memory
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
Alan Stocker
Computational perception and cognition
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
Language processing, eye movements in reading, visual perception
Statistics
Emily B. Fox
Bayesian methodology; multivariate time series; Bayesian nonparametrics; machine learning
Students
Elika Bergelson, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Language acquisition, infant language development and word learning
Sarah Johnstone Drucker
Lexical representation and lexical semantics, sentence comprehension,
and the relationship between static lexical representations and real-time, incremental language interpretation
Josef Fruehwald, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Phonology, phonetics, variation and change, sociolinguistics
Andy Gersick, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Social influences on animal behavior and cognition; responsiveness of non-human communication systems to changes in social and environmental context
Jennifer Gillenwater, IGERT Graduate Trainee
NLP; machine learning
Kyle Gorman, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Computational linguistics; writing systems; phonetics; phonology
Hila Katz, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Language development; cues in language learning, processing and use; metaphor; verbal humor and irony
Constantine Lignos, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Computational models of language acquisition, cognitive modeling, computational linguistics
Sarah Maguire, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Neurobiology and evolution of vocal learning in songbirds
Emily Pitler, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Computational linguistics; machine learning
Carlos Santana, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Language and philosophy of mind; animal communication and cognition
Adrienne Scutellaro, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Language acquisition, development, phonetic/phonological representations
Kobey Shwayder, IGERT Graduate Trainee
Phonology, phonology-morphology interface, algorithmic and computational modeling of linguistic (especially phonological) processes
Evolution of social behavior and their genetic correlates using a non-human
primate model, the gelada
Visiting Scholars
Thomas Francois
Readability of French as a foreign language using natural language
Anat Ninio
Syntactic and pragmatic development, corpus linguistics and complexity theory
Anna Papafragou
Linguistic theory, language acquisition and conceptual development; cognitive science
Researchers
Frans Adriaans
Infant language development, computational modeling, phonological acquisition
Ann Bunger
Language acquisition and processing; event representation; syntax-semantics-cognition interface
Alistair Isaac
Philosophy of Psychology (especially perception and psychophysics), Cognitive Science, History and Philosophy of Science, and Bounded Rationality (especially probabilistic models of bounded agents)
Stephen Isard
Computer speech synthesis and recognition
Seth Kulick
Biomedical information extraction, syntax & Tree Adjoining Grammar
Eleni Miltsakaki
Natural language processing; Penn Discourse Treebank; anaphora resolution; discourse connectives
