Formal Bio

Erin Grant is a Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University and in Fall 2026 will join the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor in Psychology and Computing Science and a Fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. Her research bridges cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence to understand how minds, brains, and machines learn to perceive the world, structure their knowledge, and act towards short- and long-term goals. Erin earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2022 with support from Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. During her Ph.D., Erin spent time at OpenAI, Google Brain, and DeepMind. Before joining NYU, Erin was a Senior Research Fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London. Erin currently serves on the Women in Machine Learning Board of Directors and is an active member of organizing committees for ICLR, NeurIPS, and CCN. She was named a Rising Star of Neuroscience for 2025 by The Transmitter.