Women in Computational Cognition

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1	Women in COMPUTATIONAL COGNITION								@dropdown
2	WiCS Networking Hubs are intended for use by the research community to support and promote the careers of women in cognitive science. Individuals are encouraged to reach out to other members of the group for networking. Considerate use of the contact information is expected.
3	Name	Affiliation	Position	Email address	Lab or Personal Website	Research Topics	Willing to Mentor? Describe timeframe/commitment.	Interested in Networking? Describe needs and offers.

4	Annabel Cohen	University of Prince Edward Island	Professor	acohen@upei.ca	musicog.discoveryspace.ca
5	Nancy Carlisle	Lehigh University	Assistant Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science	nbc415@lehigh.edu	https://sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/carlislelab	Attention, Working Memory, Attentional Control, ERPs, EEG, eye tracking	Yes, occasional (1-2/semester)
6	Lindsay Portnoy	Northeastern University	Associate Teaching Professor	l.portnoy@northeastern.edu		Games for learning, design thinking, authentic assessment, upskilling		Collaborative research with my doctoral students engaged in action research
7	Heather Sheridan	University at Albany, SUNY	Assistant Professor	hsheridan@albany.edu	https://visualcognitionlab.com/	reading, visual expertise, visual cognition, eye tracking, EEG/ERPs, computational modeling	Yes, I would be happy to be a mentor (The best format for me would be zoom meetings or phone calls either monthly or every couple of weeks).
8	Yelda Semizer	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Assistant Professor	yelda.semizer@njit.edu	http://people.csail.mit.edu/yeldasemizer/	visual perception, visual search, visual clutter, eye-tracking, visual expertise	Yes.	Yes. I would be interested in getting in touch with people with similar research interests, attending their talks, and discussing potential collaborations.
9	Jiangxue Valentina Ning	The New School for Social Research	PhD student	ningj@newschool.edu				Mentors, friends, colleagues
10	Yvonne Oberholzer	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	PhD candidate	yvonne.oberholzer@kit.edu	https://cub.iism.kit.edu/83_96.php	Numerical Cognition, Decision Making, Risk Preferences, Cognitive Modeling
11	Xin Xie	University of Rochester		xxie13@ur.rochester.edu		Spoken language processing
12	An Nguyen	Johns Hopkins University	PhD Candidate	an.nguyen@jhu.edu	https://annguyen0212.github.io/	Language Acquisition, Cognitive Development		Interested in finding a mentor or networking with people with similar background who are working in industry
13	Yoolim Kim	Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History	Postdoctoral Researcher	ykim6@wellesley.edu		Psycholinguistics, language processing, orthographic processing, writing systems, Korean / Hangul.		Yes! It would be helpful to receive some external advice (i.e., fresh perspective) to help recalibrate thoughts and ideas and to get general feedback on career-related decisions/trajectory.
14	Irina Lavrova	Texas Tech University	Graduate student	irina.lavrova@ttu.edu	https://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/cognition/	categorization behavior, language and emotion
15	Anna Jafarpour	University of Washington		annaja@uw.edu	https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/annajafarpour	memory; perception; computational neuroscience		career mentorship, transition from postdoc to assistant professorship
16	Elizabeth Hall	UC Davis	Graduate student	Ehhall@ucdavis.edu	Elizabethhhall.com	Object and scene perception, memory
17	Elizabeth Bonawitz	Harvard University	Associate Professor	lbaraff@gmail.com	http://ccdlab.rutgers.edu/index.html	Computational Cognitive Development (causal learning, social-cognitive reasoning)	Occasionally (willing to answer questions/brief meetings up to once a month)			Reasoning	Computational Cognition
18	Daphna Buchsbaum	Brown University	Assistant professor	daphna@brown.edu	http://www.cocodevlab.com	Computational cognitive development and comparative cognition
19	Kimele Persaud	Rutgers Univeristy - Newark	Assistant Professor	kimele.persaud@rutgers.edu	https://sites.rutgers.edu/mc2-lab/	computational models of visual working and long-term memory; episodic memory in development	Yes.	Yes. I would like to network with people with similar reseach interests
20	Liane Gabora	University of British Columbia	Full Professor	liane.gabora@ubc.ca	https://gabora-psych.ok.ubc.ca/	Computational models of creativity and cultural evolution	Yes.	Yes. I would like to network with people with similar reseach interests
21	Abhilasha Kumar	Bowdoin College	Assistant Professor	a.kumar@bowdoin.edu	https://thelexiconlab.github.io/	computational models of memory search, communication, and cooperation	Yes (brief meetings/ checking in every 2 months)	Yes. Interested in potential collaborations, talks/visits, working with graduate students
22	Jessica Alexander	University of Texas at Austin	Doctoral Student	jessica.alexander@utexas.edu	https://fllanoslucas.wixsite.com/neuroling-lab	speech perception, emotion, neurolinguistics, electrophysiology, auditory neuroscience, phonetics, acoustics	Yes (undergraduates or individuals transitioning to industry)	Yes, very open and happy to connect and/or organize
23	Sewon Oh	University of South Carolina	Doctoral Student	sewon@email.sc.edu	https://affectandcognition.wixsite.com/home/	Affect, sensitivity, ML, physiology, fMRI		Yes, very interested in any kinds, but special interest in career planning and getting advices on study designs. Would love to join in any analyses needs.
24	Anastasia Stoops	National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Research Scientist	agusico2@illinois.edu	https://psychology.illinois.edu/directory/profile/agusico2	Computational modeling (AI, machine learning; deep-learning) eye-tracking; EEG (ERP and time-frequency); Visual and linguistic factors that modulate the development of reading expertise;		Yes, open to collaborations, editing, and reviewing but also just connecting
25	Aashritha Sayyaparaju		High School Reseacher	aashritha4you@gmail.com	https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashritha-sayyaparaju/	attention, cognitive control, automaticity		Seeking mentors for expansion with cognitive + computer science
26	Virginia Valian	Hunter College - CUNY	Distinguished Professor	valianresearch@gmail.com	virginiavalian.org	computational approaches to language acquisition; computational analyses of texts differentiating people by gender, race/ethnicity, etc.	yes, commitment to be discussed	yes
27	Sujatha Ramesh	IIM Indore, India	Doctoral Student	ef23sujathar@iimidr.ac.in		computational approaches to learning and comprehension	I have 20+ years in the industry and can coach young people or middle management folks in the education or technology space.	yes, seeking collaborators and mentors in the research world especially as a later entrant into academia
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