TedLab

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Principal Investigator

Ted Gibson

Ted Gibson

I am the PI of Tedlab.
Here is my CV.
Here is my google scholar profile.
Here is a short bio.




Students

Sihan Chen

MIT BCS, expected to graduate 2025

One of my ultimate interests is to understand how human minds exchange information in the form of written scripts, which involves investigating how information is encoded by the author, how information is decoded by the reader, as well as the efficiency of these processes in different writing systems (e.g. alphabetical, syllabic, logographic, abjad, and abugida). I'm also interested in determining to what extent the external environmental factors affect how people use their languages, especially how they use different sounds. These two questions are addressed via combining mathematical modelling, behavioral experiments, and corpus data analysis.

Thomas Hikaru Clark

MIT BCS, expected to graduate 2026

I am interested in the principles underlying human language and cognition, and how computational and information-theoretic approaches can help us shed light on these principles. For example, some recent work has looked at the Uniform Information Density hypothesis through corpus study, behavioral experiment, and computational modeling of counterfactual grammars. I’m also interested in what makes words and sentences memorable, and how to computationally characterize language disorders.

Moshe Poliak

MIT BCS, expected to graduate 2027

I’m interested in how we choose to phrase and produce a message that already exists in the mind, and how comprehenders capitalize on these decisions to better understand the intention of the producer. In service of my research question, my interests span language production and comprehension, construction grammar, syntax, prosody, sign languages, and communication-based approaches to language such as noisy channel processing. I value cross-linguistic work, methodological rigor and diversity, and open science practices.

Postdocs

RAs / Post-Bacs

UROPs

Hannah Kimura

Aimee Wang

Jonathan Dase