Faculty

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...

Dr. Walsh’s research focuses on the development and optimization of digital supportive care interventions to improve outcomes among patients with cancer and their caregivers. She is a member of the Cancer Outcomes Research and Education program in the...

 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...

My research focuses on theories of language, cognitive semiotics, poetry, film, and new media. The central question driving my work is: How do language and thought interact? I approach this inquiry from ontogenetic, phenomenological, and semiotic...