Dan was an undergrad computer science major at Carnegie Mellon before completing a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Indiana University and doing a postdoc in Psych Department at Stanford. He is broadly interested in how we learn from the people around us, and especially how children learn language. Dan is excited about understanding communication and learning from a systems perspective.

Joe did his undergrad at UChicago in math and linguistics. He is interested in how children learn new words and grammar, and applications to machine learning.

Claire is a third-year PhD student in the Cognition program at the University of Chicago. She studied psychology and cognitive science at Williams College. She is interested in language and category acquisition.

Ashley is a second-year PhD student in Psychology at the University of Chicago. She graduated from Middlebury College with a BA in Psychology and English & American Literatures. She is broadly interested in child language acquisition, and she is currently studying how parent-child communication influences language learning.

Ben is a second-year PhD student with Daniel Yurovsky and Alex Shaw. Broadly, Ben works on the interplay between language and social cognition across development. He is especially interested in emerging conceptions of knowledge and knowledge transmission, and in the language cues that drive children’s inferences about knowledge.

Alex is a fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Chicago, double majoring in Biology and Psychology. She is interested in the application of these two fields in child development.