Jennifer Hu
Kempner Research Fellow
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About
Jennifer Hu is a Research Fellow at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. Previously, she earned a PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where she worked with Roger Levy in the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory. She earned her BA from Harvard University in Mathematics and Linguistics in 2018.
Research Focus
Hu’s current research focuses on language, cognitive science, and machine learning and aims to understand the computational and cognitive principles that underlie human language. How do humans communicate so flexibly and effectively? And how does this happen given limited cognitive resources? Hu approaches these questions through a combination of probabilistic modeling, machine learning, and behavioral/neuroimaging experiments. This work serves the dual goals of understanding the human mind and safely advancing artificial intelligence.