Giwon and Simon are moving on to new opportunities
Giwon and Simon have been postdoctoral fellows working with Tom, Gordon, and Jeff on projects aimed at understanding and modeling monkey and human behavior, and monkey neurophysiology and electrophysiology in visual cognition.
Simon has worked on developing ensemble models of perceptual decision making that jointly explain choice behavior, speed-accuracy tradeoffs, neural data, and confidence, developing a model of bottom-up salience that predicts behavior and neurophysiology to extend our recent models of top-down salience in visual search, and understanding relations between attention, memory, and serial order. Simon is moving to the newly established College of Connected Computing at Vanderbilt as an Assistant Professor of the Practice. He will bring his computational and quantitative expertise to teach undergraduates across the university how to apply computation and data science to a wide range of disciplines. He will also maintain a Research Assistant Professor position in the department and plans to continue active collaborations with colleagues in Wilson Hall.
Giwon has worked on developing a joint computational understanding of the relationships between behavior, neurophysiology, and electrophysiology, resulting in a model that predicts the time course of a key event-related potential (ERP) component associated with attentional allocation and target selection, the monkey analogue of the N2pc. He has also worked on developing a computational understanding of sequential decision making and ensemble perception. Giwon will be moving to Pennsylvania State University in September for a postdoctoral fellowship with Roger Beaty, where he will study how large language models (LLMs) can be used to automate the assessment of creativity in natural-language-based tasks. He hopes to gain more insights into how to model high-level thought processes computationally and how LLMs can contribute to psychological understanding.
We wish Simon and Giwon the best in their new endeavors!
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