People
Fall 2024
Principal Investigator
Anna (Anya) Ivanova
Anya is an Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech. She got her PhD and postdoctoral training from MIT.
Anya is excited to understand the nature of human thought by leveraging tools from neuroimaging, computational modeling (AI), and behavioral analysis.
Current Full-Time Members
Jin Li
PostdocJin received her PhD from Ohio State University (supervised by Dr. Zeynep Sagyin). Working as a postdoc with Anya, Jin is interested in using neuroimaging to tease apart the relationship between different cognitive processes and language and combining computational approaches to further explore the mechanisms of their interaction. For example, how does the human brain process meanings (i.e., semantic information) from various types and formats? Whether and how different languages might shape our mental spaces differently.[email]
Will Decker
Ph.D. StudentWill is a 1st year Psychology PhD student in the LIT Lab. He is interested in how human and machine brains learn and represent information, like language! Will enjoys coding, reading and watching TV. His favorite TV shows are The Simpsons and Avatar: The Last Airbender.[website] [email]
Taha Binhuraib
Ph.D. StudentTaha Binhuraib, a Georgia Tech PhD student in Psychology, explores the intersection of cognitive science and artificial intelligence. With a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bahcesehir University, Turkey, his research delves into topographic language modeling, cognitively plausible modeling, and LLMs. Taha's work aims to bridge the gap between human cognition and advanced AI systems.[email]
Ruimin Gao
Research TechnicianRuimin is the research technician in the LIT Lab. She is interested in understanding how the human brain processes and represents contextual information during language processing, and how LLM and AI techniques can help answer questions about human cognitive processes. In her spare time, Ruimin loves coding and traveling.[website] [email]Current Part-Time Members
Eyas Ayesh
Master's StudentEyas Ayesh is a Masters student double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Statistics. He is interested in studying and understanding mechanisms of intelligence in different systems. At the LIT lab he is investigating the semantic differention by the language network in the brain. [website] [email]
Om Bhatt
Master's StudentHi! I'm interested in exploring how ML models exhibit human-like effects both in language and vision, especially from a neuroscientific perspective. I come from an undergraduate background in CS and Philosophy, which eventually led me to the psychology-based ethos at LIT. I love to spend my free time at concerts, watching horror movies, or practicing creative writing![email]
Kamya Hari
Master's StudentKamya is a first year master's student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her broad research interest lies in the overlap between Neuroscience and AI (NeuroAI). At LIT lab, she's working on data-driven approaches to localise the language network in the brain.[email]
Unnathi Kumar
Undergraduate StudentUnnathi is an undergraduate student majoring in computer science with a minor in economics. She is exploring the ways in which LLMs mimic human cognition and the factors that affect the performance of LLMs at the LIT Lab. [email]
George Flint
Undergraduate StudentGeorge Flint is a student and researcher of cognitive science and machine learning in the Class of 2026 at UC Berkeley.He is primarily interested in theoretical cognitive science, focusing on the neuronal mechanisms underpinning cognition and computation, at all scales, and their emergence, investigated computationally. He endeavors to create artificial models inspired by nature to describe and harness parsimonies and abilities of natural cognition.[website] [email]
Sydney Idleburg
Undergraduate StudentSydney is a second-year student at Georgia Tech, majoring in neuroscience. She is interested in investigating the relationship between inner speech and brain activity utilizing techniques such as fMRI.[email]
Chloe Chen
Undergraduate StudentChloe is a third-year undergraduate student at Georgia Tech, studying neuroscience. She is interested in mapping the brain using fMRI to discover new functions of each area of the brain. [email]
Sanjana Ramakrishnan
Undergraduate StudentSanjana is a second-year student at Georgia Tech, majoring in industrial engineering and minoring in psychology. She is interested in learning how neuroscience and AI can be used to effectively measure and draw conclusions about inner speech in an individual. [email]Mentors & Collaborators
Evelina Fedorenko
Associate Professor,MIT
Jacob Andreas
Associate Professor,MIT
Nancy Kanwisher
Professor,MIT
Ratan Murty
Assistant Professor,Georgia Tech
Kyle Mahowald
Assistant Professor,UT Austin
Carina Kauf
PhD Candidate,MIT
Ben Lipkin
PhD Student,MIT
Aalok Sathe
Research Assistant,MIT
Eric Martinez
PhD Candidate,MIT
Idan Blank (MIT/UCLA)
Alex Paunov (MIT/NeuroSpin)
Gabe Grand (MIT)
Roger Levy (MIT)
Josh Tenenbaum (MIT)
Thomas Clark (MIT)
Pramod RT (MIT)
Vivian Paulun (MIT)
Setayesh Radkani (MIT)
Jenn Hu (MIT/Harvard)
Ekin Akyürek (MIT)
Ced Zhang (MIT)
Maria Ryskina (MIT)
Yihan Zhou
Past Mentees
Selena She (MIT)
David Oluigbo (MIT)
Josleen St Luce (MIT)
Alyx Tanner (MIT/UPenn)
Yotaro Sueoka (MIT/Johns Hopkins)
Chandler Cheung (UPenn)
Zawad Chowdhury (MIT/UW)
Past Collaborators
Hope Kean (MIT)
Zach Mineroff (MIT)
Alvincé Pongos (MIT/Berkeley-UCSF)
Shashank Srikant (MIT)
Una-May O’Reilly (MIT)
Jon Gauthier (MIT/UCSF)
Matthias Hofer (MIT)
Martin Schrimpf (MIT/EPFL)
Noga Zaslavsky (MIT/UC Davis)
Marina Bers (Tufts)
Riva Dhamala (Tufts)
John Hewitt (Stanford)
Rosemary Varley (UCL)
Vitor Zimmerer (UCL)
Yael Benn (Manchester Metropolitan)
Oliver Clark (Manchester Metropolitan)
Alessandro Lenci (Università di Pisa)
Giulia Rambelli (Università di Bologna)
Emmanuele Chersoni (Hong Kong Polytechnic)
Leyla Isik (Johns Hopkins)
Stefano Anzellotti (Boston College)
Lucina Uddin (UCLA)
Stella de Bode (UCLA)