Jeffrey A. Barrett
  • Chancellor's Professor
    Ph.D., Columbia, 1992

  • philosophy of science; philosophy of physics; epistemology; game theory, decision theory, and rational choice

  •  765 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6491

  • j.barrett@uci.edu
  • Website
Aaron Bornstein
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., New York University, 2013

  • memory, decision-making, reinforcement learning, neuroimaging, computational cognitive neuroscience

  •  SBSG 2318 | (949) 824-0628

  • aaron.bornstein@uci.edu
  • Website
John Boyd
Nadia Chernyak
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Cornell University, 2014

  • cognitive development, social cognition, prosocial behavior, moral cognition, agency and free will, conceptual development

  •  SBSG 2334 | 949-824-9788

  • nadia.chernyak@uci.edu
  • Lab
Barbara Dosher
  • Distinguished Professor and UG Honors Program Director
    Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1977

  • human information processing, memory retrieval, attention, visual perception

  •  SBSG 2564 | 949-824-7373

  • bdosher@uci.edu
  • Website
Kenny Easwaran
  • Associate Professor and Colloquium Director
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 

  • formal epistemology (esp. philosophy of probability and decision theory), epistemology, mathematical logic (esp. set theory), philosophy of mathematics

  •  759 Social Science Tower

  • k.easwaran@uci.edu
  • Website
Jean-Claude Falmagne
  • Research Professor
    Ph.D., University of Brussels, 1965

  • mathematical behavioral sciences

  •  SSPA 2133 | 949-824-6239

  • jcf@uci.edu
  • Website
Roy Fox
  • Assistant Professor, UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

  • artificial intelligence and machine learning

  •  DBH 4064

  • royf@uci.edu
  • Website
Richard Futrell
  • Graduate Director & Associate Professor, Language Science
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017

  • linguistics, natural language processing, bayesian modeling

  •  SSPB 2215

  • rfutrell@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Simon Huttegger
  • Chancellor's Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions
    Ph.D., University of Salzburg, 2006

  • game and decision theory, philosophy of biology, philosophy of science

  •  785 Social Science Tower | 949-824-3220

  • shuttegg@uci.edu
  • Website
Kimberly Jameson
Marek Kaminski
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Univ. of Maryland, 1997

  • voting models, democratization, political consequences of electoral laws

  •  SSPB 2283 | 949-824-2744

  • mkaminsk@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Allison Koslow
  • Assistant Professor, Philosophy
    Ph.D., MIT 

  • philosophy of language, metaphysics, feminism, history of analytic, philosophy of linguistics

  • akoslow@uci.edu
  • Website
Mimi Liljeholm
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2006

  • Agency, causal induction, compositionality, motivation, compulsion, social transmission

  •  SBSG 2312 | 949-824-8444

  • m.liljeholm@uci.edu
  • Lab
Bill Maurer
  • Dean and Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1994

  • money and finance, law and culture, caribbean

  •  SBSG 5218 | 949-824-6802

  • wmmaurer@uci.edu
  • Website
Connor Mayer
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., UCLA, 2021

  • linguistics, phonology, phonetics, computational linguistics, speech motor control

  •  Social Science Plaza B, Room 2211

  • cjmayer@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Jeffrey B. Mulligan
  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1986

  • human vision and eye movements, visual displays, computational modeling

  • Website
Cherlyn Ng
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., National University of Singapore, 2010

  • visual perception, neuroplasticity, physiological optics, psychophysics, computational modeling

  •  SBSG 2326

  • cherlyjn@uci.edu
Cailin O'Connor
  • Chancellor's Professor, Placement Director, and Director of Graduate Studies
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2013

  • philosophy of biology, evolutionary game theory, philosophy of science

  •  793 Social Science Tower

  • cailino@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Lisa Pearl
  • Professor, Language Science
    Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, 2007

  • language development, linguistics, computational sociolinguistics, cognitive modeling

  •  SSPB 2219

  • lpearl@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
  • CV
Megan Peters
  • Associate Professor and Graduate Director
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2014

  • perception, metacognition, subjective experience, computational modeling, computational cognitive neuroscience

  •  SBSG 2568

  • megan.peters@uci.edu
  • Lab
Zygmunt Pizlo
  • Professor and Falmagne Endowed Chair
    Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, 1991

  • human and machine vision, 3D shape, symmetry, virtual reality, robotics, problem solving

  •  SSPA 2187

  • zpizlo@uci.edu
  • Website
Katherine Claire Ritchie
  • Assistant Professor, Philosophy, UCI School of Humanities
    Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, 2013

  • metaphysics, philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, social philosophy

  • ritchiek@uci.edu
  • Website
Lauren N. Ross
  • Associate Professor and Director of the Summer Diversity Program
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2016
    M.D., University of California, Irvine, 2011

  • general philosophy of science; philosophy of biology, neuroscience, and medicine

  •  791 Social Science Tower

  • rossl@uci.edu
  • Website
Donald Saari
  • Distinguished Research Professor
    Ph.D. Purdue University  

  • mathematics and applications of dynamical systems to social sciences

  •  SSPB 3295 | 949-824-5894

  • dsaari@uci.edu
  • Website
Gregory Scontras
  • Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director, Language Science; Associate Director of C-ALPHA
    Ph.D. Linguistics, Harvard University, 2014

  • semantics, pragmatics, cognitive modeling, philosophical logic

  •  SSPB 2221

  • g.scontras@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
  • CV
Brian Skyrms
  • Distinguished Professor, Director of the Salzburg Exchange Program, Director of the History & Philosophy of Science IDP, and Director of the History & Philosophy of Science Minor
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh 

  • philosophy of science, metaphysics

  •  767 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6495

  • bskyrms@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV

  • (On Leave Winter 2024)
George Sperling
  • Distinguished Research Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1959

  • empirical and theoretical studies of human information processing: visual perception, attention, and short-term memory systems; computational and neural models of motion and depth perception, and of feature, spatial, and temporal attention processes

  •  SSPA 2181 | 949-824-6879

  • sperling@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
P. Kyle Stanford
  • Professor and Director of the PPE MA Program
    Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

  • philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, epistemology and metaphysics, history of modern philosophy

  •  769 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6398

  • stanford@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Mark Steyvers
  • Chancellor's Fellow, Professor and Department Chair
    Ph.D., Indiana University, 2000

  • human-AI collaboration, higher-order cognition, learning, metacognition, computational modeling

  •  SBSG 2316 | 949-824-7642

  • mark.steyvers@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Erik Sudderth
  • Associate Professor, UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

  • artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer vision, statistics and statistical theory

  •  DBH 4028 | (949) 824-8169

  • sudderth@uci.edu
  • Website
James Owen Weatherall
  • Chancellor's Professor and Department Chair
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2012
    Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, 2009

  • philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, mathematical physics

  •  781 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6656

  • weatherj@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Xin Xie
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2015

  • psycholinguistics, Speech perception and production, cross-language communication, computational modeling, neuroimaging

  •  Social Science Plaza B, Room 2223

  • xxie14@uci.edu
  • Lab
  • CV

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