Interdisciplinary research on language & speech

Cognitive ScienceCognitive Neuroscience

Artificial Intelligence

The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

• An interdisciplinary research institute devoted to basic research in the physical sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior, and cognition.

• Beckman Institute research is focused around four research themes:– Biological Intelligence– Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction– Integrative Imaging– Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures

• Biological Intelligence– Cognitive Science: how higher mental processes and

how humans represent knowledge and process information; language & learning

– Cognitive Neuroscience: how cognitive and emotional functioning are implemented in the neural architecture of the human brain

– NeuroTech: Neural systems and computation; Molecular and cellular neurobiology

• Linguists: Jennifer Cole; Chilin Shih

• Many other speech and language researchers!

• Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction– Artificial Intelligence: robotics, vision, knowledge

representation, learning, image processing, scheduling, reasoning, decision and information systems, and natural language processing

– Human Perception and Performance: mechanisms of human perception and the relations between perception and action

– Image Formation and Processing: computerized imaging; image-video transmission, storage, and manipulation; and image and scene modeling and analysis

• Linguists: Roxana Girju; Silvina Montrul; Ryan Shosted• Many other speech and language researchers!

How can students get involved?

• Talk to Beckman faculty• Take classes in areas related to Beckman

research• Talk to graduate students currently doing

research at Beckman• Attend talks, brown bags, seminars – Visit the Beckman Institute webpage– Ask me!