I am an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychology & Computing Science at the University of Alberta and a Fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).
I study learning in minds, brains, and machines, combining behavioural experiments, computational simulations, and analytical techniques. See my research page for more, or my formal bio for introductions.
I am actively recruiting for my lab at all levels for a 2027 start; see my university page for more details!
Recent News
CIFAR profiled my research in What AI can teach us about human intelligence.
The 4th edition of the Summer School on Analytical Connectionism, on language acquisition, took place in Gothenburg.
I attended the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) in New York to present a poster, keynote a K&T, represent the CCN TPC as chair, and say goodbye to NYC 🥹
I was named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the Learning in Machines & Brains program. 🍁 Amii covered the news.
🧠💭🤖 The workshop on Representational Alignment is back at ICLR 2026!!
I attended NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego! I finally learned to prebook meetings (serendipity doesn’t scale). This was my 3rd year serving on the NeurIPS Organizing Committee, and I also spoke at CogInterp and co-organized Data on the Brain & Mind.
I was named a Rising Star of Neuroscience by The Transmitter.
🧠💭 Our workshop on Data on the Brain & Mind will appear at NeurIPS 2025! See you there :).
Recent Publications
For a complete list, see my research page or my CV.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026.
Best paper award at the ICML 2026 WSS Workshop..
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
Spotlight presentation (<3% of submissions).