I am an Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow at the
Center for Data Science at New York University.
Research summary: I study learning in minds, brains, and machines using a combination of behavioral experiments, computational simulations, and analytical techniques. See my research page for more.
Here is a more formal bio that can be used to introduce me.
In Fall 2026, I will join the Departments of Psychology & Computing Science at the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) as a Fellow. I am actively recruiting for my lab; please see my university page for more details!
⚠️ I can no longer access my erin.grant@ucl.ac.uk email.
Recent News
🧠💭 Our workshop on Data on the Brain & Mind was accepted to NeurIPS 2025! Calls for contributions to the Findings and Tutorials tracks are now open.
The 3rd edition of the Summer School on Analytical Connectionism is taking place in London!
I attended the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) in Amsterdam to present a poster, moderate a GAC, host a hackathon, represent the CCN TPC, and talk science with many awesome people.
I gave a lecture + tutorial session on representational alignment at the July Cognition Academy of the Max Planck School of Cognition.
Touring new paper on function vs. representation in neural networks! Lukas presented this as a spotlight at ICML 2025 in Vancouver, and I presented it as a poster at CCN 2025 in Amsterdam.
I visited Italy to give an invited talk at Bocconi University in Milan and then head to Trieste do the same at YiHD 2025 at ICTP!
I attended RLDM in Dublin to give an invited talk at the Workshop on “Representational alignment and aging.”
🧠💭🤖 Our workshop on Representational Alignment is back at ICLR 2025!
I attended the Simons Institute’s Workshop on LLMs, cognitive science, linguistics, and neuroscience in Berkeley.
I gave an invited talk at the UniReps Workshop at NeurIPS.
Recent Publications
For a complete list, see my research page or my CV.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
Spotlight presentation (<3% of submissions).
In ICLR Blog Posts Track, 2025.
Appeared at ICLR 2025 as a main conference poster..
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
Spotlight presentation (<4% of submissions).
In submission, 2024.