
Cognitive scientist puzzling over play & problem solving. Postdoc @Stanford Psychology, PhD @mitbrainandcog
Palo Alto, CA
Joined September 2011
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Junyi Chu retweeted
Are you attending @cogdevsoc 2026? Come join us for an afternoon pre-conference workshop on motivation in development! We'll bring together developmental, educational, and computational perspectives to ask: Can we build a unified account of motivation across the lifespan? ✨
Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️!
We're calling it: Minds in the Making🏺minds-making.github.io
Register now!
June – July 2024, free & open to the public.
(all career stages, all disciplines)
🏁 and our finale (7/28, 9am-12pm PT) ft. Barbara Tversky @ColumbiaPSYC , Grace Hawthorne @stanforddschool , & YOU in San Francisco at @cogsci_soc!
Submit a poster abstract: forms.gle/SHFChMAARetoVtWu6
Finally, it's been a real joy to get to work with fellow organizers @ArnavVerma0_0 @guyd33 Robbie Fraser & @judyefan for pulling together this truly interdisciplinary experience over the last 6 months! Hope to see you all! 🥳
Junyi Chu retweeted
🚨🚨🚨 We are launching our Graduate School Application Financial Aid Program (queerinai.com/grad-app-aid) for 2024-2025. We’ll give up to $750 per person to queer STEM scholars applying to graduate programs. Apply at openreview.net/group?id=Quee…. 1/5
Join us in Vancouver this December!
🚨We're back!🚨 Excited to announce The 2nd IMOL Workshop at #neurips2024!
Send us your 📜newest work📜on learning & exploration in artificial and biological agents. #CFP at imol-workshop.github.io/page…
🔄Please share widely & stay tuned for more programming announcements!
The best team to wrap up my first NeurIPS with! Loved working with & learning from everyone here.
Replying to @IMOLNeurIPS2024
Last but not least: our organizing team! @cedcolas @lae_teo @CcansuSancaktar @nadiaad @JunyiChu
See you all at the next IMOL event!
Junyi Chu retweeted
Research Assistant Wanted❗️
We're looking for an assistant to help collect data on wild orangutans🌿🦧🌿
Junyi Chu retweeted
I am beyond excited to share a new preprint from my lab ‘The Conceptual Structure of Human Relationships across Modern and Historical Cultures’. We discovered a universal representational space of social relationship concepts. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ut6q…
Junyi Chu retweeted
If you've been out of your undergrad for < 3 years, want to do an AI PhD and want more research experience, please consider this postbac program @Harvard
Housing + stipend provided
Can take Harvard classes
Get to work with world class researchers
Junyi Chu retweeted
Princeton Neuroscience Institute is offering an NSF-funded summer internship program for highly motivated undergraduates, providing education and hands-on research experience in neuro/select psych projects. pni.princeton.edu/apply/unde…. Highly recommend!
Junyi Chu retweeted
Are you a 10-month old baby, or know someone who is?
Consider participating in a Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies (online) experiment, sign up here:
bit.ly/babyPhysics23
Dec 16th!
🎶Robots in minecraft and TVs in dark rooms
large language models and in-context learning
children at play with the goals that they say
these are a few of my favorite things🎶
Only 3 weeks to the IMOL Workshop @NeurIPSConf! Congrats to all the authors for sharing their work. We accepted ✨28 papers✨ which you can see at the poster sessions, or preview here: imol-workshop.github.io/pape…
We will spotlight three papers as contributed talks. 🧵
Junyi Chu retweeted
The final paperwork is still pending, but it’s time to spread the word, so here goes---
I am starting as an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Georgia Tech!
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