Bria is thrilled to be an incoming Assistant Professor at UC San Diego! She is broadly interested in how we learn to perceive our visual world so effortlessly.

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Bria is currently finishing her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in the Language & Cognition Lab. She completed her Ph.D. in the Harvard Vision Lab and the Laboratory for Developmental Studies, and spent two years in the Cogmaster program at École Normale Supérieure in Paris working with Sid Kouider and Emmanuel Dupoux at LSCP. As an undergraduate, she worked with Caitlin Fausey and Lera Boroditsky at Stanford University.

 

Bria is the first academic in her family, and she is a mom of two young kids. She is committed to making science more open (transparent, reproducible, and inclusive) and in using her privilege to increase opportunities in science for people from marginalized backgrounds. 

 

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Jane completed her undergrad at UCSD, where she worked with Eva Wittenberg and was advised by Judy Fan and Ben Bergen for her Honors Thesis. After graduation, she spent two years at UT Austin working with Chen Yu as a lab technician in Developmental Intelligence Lab. She is broadly interested in children’s concept learning and multimodal learning. It fascinates her that a child can easily understand fundamental properties of objects from a few examples while a highly trained model fails short. She would like to leverage behavioral experiments and use computational modeling to study children’s language and visual development in real-world contexts! 

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