Academics Committee

Lisa Wong is Associate Co-Director of the Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wong is a pediatrician, musician, arts advocate, and author. She is a pediatrician at Milton Pediatric Associates and an assistant clinical professor...

Hecht's lab’s research asks how brains change in response to selection pressure on behavior, and how brains acquire heritable adaptations for complex, learned behaviors.  Comparisons between modern humans and our living primate relatives provide a way to...

Ashley Thomas studies what infants, toddlers, and children think about social relationships: how they think and feel about social hierarchy; how they interpret social interactions that involve their caregivers; and how they think about social intimacy. 

Zitnik investigates foundations of AI that contribute to the scientific understanding of medicine and therapeutic design, eventually enabling AI to learn and innovate on its own.

Marinka Zitnik is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard...

 I study how infants learn language from the world around them, and in particular how infants and toddlers learn words. We approach this by studying learners and their environments. Understanding the learner requires probing the early mental...

I study the sound systems of human language both from the perspective of how speech sounds are produced and perceived (phonetics) and the perspective of how they are structured in grammar (phonology). I direct the Phonetics and Phonology Lab (PhonLab)...

I’m interested in the development of commonsense reasoning, and using empirical tools to build formal models of children and adults learn new intuitive theories. In particular my work focuses on people’s intuitive physics and intuitive psychology, their...