Course Staff

Get to know your COGS 118D course staff!

๐ŸŽ“ degree ๐Ÿ  hometown ๐Ÿ’ฌ talk to me aboutโ€ฆ

Instructor

Lucy Lai

lai@ucsd.edu

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿซ Hi everyone, Iโ€™m your instructor for COGS 118D this quarter! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Iโ€™m an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Cognitive Science department, and this is my 2nd year at UCSD. In this course, weโ€™ll explore how to describe, predict, and explain human behavior with computational models, while building practical skills that are useful for research, industry, and beyond. Youโ€™re always welcome to my office hours to ask questions or just say hello (there will be snacks). Looking forward to a great quarter together!

๐ŸŽ“ B.A. from Rice University, Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard
๐Ÿ  Houston, TX ๐Ÿค 
๐Ÿ’ฌ applying to graduate school, living in Japan ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต, anime, latin dancing ๐Ÿ’ƒ

Teaching Assistant

Ian Zane

izane@ucsd.edu

๐ŸŽ“ 2nd-year Cognitive Science PhD student
๐Ÿ  New Providence, NJ
๐Ÿ’ฌ fantasy novels, card & strategy Games, rats & cats, doing a PhD, COGS major

Reader

Pradyumna Sripada

psripada@ucsd.edu

๐ŸŽ“ 2nd-year MS Data Science student
๐Ÿ  Bangalore, India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ
๐Ÿ’ฌ sci-fi, documentaries