Director

 

Richard Futrell
  • Graduate Director & Associate Professor, Language Science
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017

  • linguistics, natural language processing, bayesian modeling

  •  2215 Social Science Plaza B

  • rfutrell@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV

 

Associated Faculty

 

Kenny Easwaran
  • Professor, Director of Graduate Studies and Colloquium & Events Director
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 

  • formal epistemology (esp. philosophy of probability and decision theory), epistemology, mathematical logic (esp. set theory), philosophy of mathematics

  •  759 Social Science Tower

  • k.easwaran@uci.edu
  • Website
Gregory Hickok
  • Distinguished Professor and Chair, Language Science
    Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1991

  • neural architecture of speech and language, evolutionary origins of music and speech, aphasia

  •  SBSG 2341

  • gshickok@uci.edu
  • Lab
David Inman
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Washington 

  • languages, grammatical systems, computational modeling

  • d.inman@uci.edu
Anna Leshinskaya
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 2015

  • learning, relational reasoning, computational cognitive neuroscience, semantic memory, artificial intelligence alignment/interpretability

  •  2554 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • aleshins@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Connor Mayer
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., UCLA, 2021

  • linguistics, phonology, phonetics, computational linguistics, speech motor control

  •  Social Science Plaza B, Room 2211

  • cjmayer@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Gregory Scontras
  • Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director, Language Science; Associate Director of C-ALPHA
    Ph.D. Linguistics, Harvard University, 2014

  • semantics, pragmatics, cognitive modeling, philosophical logic

  •  2221 Social Science Plaza B

  • g.scontras@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
  • CV
Sameer Singh
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2014

  • large-scale machine learning, information extraction/nlp, probabilistic programming, interactive machine learning, distributedd and parallel inference, semi-supervised learning

  •  4204 Donald Bren Hall

  • sameer@uci.edu
  • Website
Mark Steyvers
  • Professor and Department Chair
    Ph.D., Indiana University, 2000

  • human-AI collaboration, higher-order cognition, learning, metacognition, computational modeling

  •  2566 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-7642

  • mark.steyvers@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Xin Xie
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2015

  • psycholinguistics, speech perception and production, cross-language communication, computational modeling, neuroimaging

  •  Social Science Plaza B, Room 2223

  • xxie14@uci.edu
  • Lab
  • CV