Dr Anna Leshinskaya
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
aleshins@uci.edu
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cognitive Sciences and Fellow at the Center for Neurobiology of Learning & Memory at UC Irvine, as well as an affiliated researcher with the AI Objectives Institute. I direct the Relational Cognition laboratory.
I earned a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Harvard University in 2015. My background and interests are in human cognitive neuroscience and computational cognitive science. I am broadly interested in the computational principles underlying the learning and representation of concepts and relations and how these are supported by both artificial and natural neural networks. Recent interests include cognitive and moral alignment between humans and large language models.
Our Team
Dr Michael (Mike) B. McCoy
RESEARCH FELLOW
Dr. McCoy is a mathematician, software engineer, and entreprenuer whose research spans applied mathematics, machine learning, and cognitive neuroscience, with a core focus on understanding how neural networks encode and manipulate abstract ideas, concepts, and memories. Dr. McCoy has a significant industrial background, including technical roles at 5 startups (two of which he founded) with a diversity of applications, including satellite tracking and monitoring, cybersecurity, cryptography, and self-driving cars. Dr. McCoy holds a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Caltech.
Em Smullen
GRADUATE STUDENT
