Lio Wong

Lio Wong received their PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Their research seeks to computationally model the astonishing breadth and versatility with which language informs what we know and believe. How do we update our beliefs from natural language, and relate natural language to other ways that we perceive and reason about the world? How do we learn more profoundly new ways of thinking about the world from language, from new words to new sciences? And how can we build robust, trustworthy, and interpretable artificially intelligent systems that reason about natural language as we do? Lio's research seeks to answer these questions by integrating empirical evidence from how people use and understand language with computational tools from cognitive science and AI. Lio will join the Center in partnership with Judith Fan and the Psychology Department.

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