I am a Research Associate at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, working with Dr. Michael N. Jones. I am interested in how we learn the meaning of concepts, how we utilize this meaning-related information in flexible contexts, and how we can build artificially intelligent language models using insights gained from human behavior, or reverse-engineer this process to demystify human language. My research focuses on evaluating computational models of language in unconstrained semantic tasks such as free association, sentence prediction, and language games, using experimental research methods, language modeling, and psychological theory. I did my Ph.D. work at Washington University in St Louis, with Dr. David Balota. As an undergraduate IIT Delhi, I majored in Mathematics and Computing, and then dabbled in liberal arts at Ashoka University, which ultimately brought me to cognitive science!
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Ph.D., Psychological & Brain Sciences,
Washington University in St Louis, 2016-2021 DISI Fellow, Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (2020) M.A., Liberal Arts & Young India Fellow, Ashoka University, 2014-2016 Integrated M.Tech in Mathematics & Computing, IIT Delhi, 2009-2014 |
Email: abhilasha.kumar@wustl.edu
You can also find me on GitHub and Google Scholar. CV: Long-form and short-form Beyond AcademiaThe Hindu: ‘When Walls Speak’, 2015
Kindle Magazine: ‘A Capital Affair’, 2015 Mango Chutney: Short story in fiction anthology, 2014 On Grey Matters: My somewhat-regular blog! |
