Embodied, Situated, and Grounded Intelligence: Implications for AI - Speakers
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Melanie Mitchell is the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute. Her research focuses on conceptual abstraction, analogy-making, and visual recognition in AI systems.
Lisa Miracchi is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also affiliated with the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Lab and MindCORE.
Kenneth Aizawa is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He specializes in the philosophy of psychology and is the author of The Bounds of Cognition (2008).
Daniel Casasanto is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Cornell University, where he leads the Experience and Cognition Lab.
Brian Cantwell Smith is the Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human, and a Professor of Information, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He is also a Senior Fellow at Massey College.
Guy Dove is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. He specializes in the philosophy of psychology, drawing on insights from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, neuroscience, and other related fields.
Louise Connell is a Professorial Research Fellow at Maynooth University and holds a visiting researcher position at Lancaster University. She is Principal Investigator for a European Research Council grant on the the role of language in complex cognition.
Penny Pexman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary. Her research seeks to understand how humans derive meaning from language.
Andrew Lampinen is a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind. His research interests include cognitive flexibility and generalization, and how these aspects of intelligence are affected by language, memory, and embodiment.
Linda Smith is a Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the Principal Investigator of the Cognitive Development Lab.
Arthur Glenberg is a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, where he leads the Laboratory for Embodied Cognition in the Department of Psychology.
Cameron Jones is a PhD student in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the role of world knowledge in language understanding and on the impact of language on categorization.
Yoshua Bengio is a Professor of Computer Science at Université de Montréal. He is the Founder & Scientific Director of the Mila AI Institute in Quebec, and he co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.
Tyler Marghetis is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive & Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced. He studies cognition and communication in interconnected, multiscale, complex systems, including brains, bodies, small groups, and large sociocultural systems.
Nick Cheney is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont. He directs the UVM Neurorobotics Lab and is affiliated with the Vermont Complex Systems Center.
Percy Liang is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at Stanford University. His research seeks to develop trustworthy systems that can communicate effectively with people and improve over time through interaction.
Chris Potts is a Professor of Linguistics and Computer science at Stanford University. He currently serves as the Chair of the the Department of Linguistics.