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, MIT

Aimee Wang, MIT

Deeraj Pothapragada, MIT

Sophia Marogi, MIT

Caroline Ibanez Moran, MIT

Alicja Siejka, Wellesley

Saya Haddawy, Wellesley

Anastasiia Meshcheriakova, MIT

Sophia Zhang, Wellesley

Visitors

Ray Jackendoff, Tufts

Collaborators

Steve Piantadosi, UC Berkeley

Ev Fedorenko, MIT BCS

Roger Levy, MIT BCS

Anne Abeillé, University of Paris

Barbara Hemforth, University of Paris

Elodie Winckel, University of Paris

Lars Konieczny, Freiburg Institute For Advanced Studies

Student Alums

Saima Malik Moraleda (2024)

  • Current location: Postdoc in Evlab

Yuhan Zhang (2022)

Eric Martinez (2022)

Mika Braginsky (2022)

Yingtong Liu (2022)

Giuseppe Ricciardi (2022)

  • Current location: Springer Press

Yuan Bian (2021)

  • Current location: U Illinois

Alex Paunov (2019)

  • Current location: Neurospin, Paris

Richard Futrell (2018)

Julian Jara-Ettinger (2016)

Kyle Mahowald (2016)

Leon Bergen (2015)

Melissa Kline (2015)

Melissa Troyer (2011)

Steve Piantadosi (2011)

John Kraemer (2011)

  • Google

Mike C. Frank (2011)

Mara Breen (2007)

Evelina Fedorenko (2007)

Florian Wolf (2004)

Ken Nakatani (2004)

Franny Hsiao (2002)

  • Contact:

Dan Grodner (2002)

Duane Watson (2002)

Tessa Warren (2001)

Edson Miyamoto (1998)

Carson Schutze (1995)

Colin Phillips (1995)

Ex-Postdocs

Ben Pitt

Sammy Floyd

Aixiu An

  • Current location: Working in Tech

Rachel Ryskin

Tim O’Donnell

Peter Graff

Hal Tily

  • Current location: San Francisco, CA
  • Website:

Jared Novick

Michael Wagner

Doug Rohde

Edith Kaan

Whitney Tabor

Ex-Visitors

Ruihua Mao

  • Current location: U Paris, Cité

Yanis Da Cunha

  • Current location: U Paris, Cité

Frank Mollica

Paula Rubio Fernandez

Christian Bentz

Frank Keller

Roger Levy

Anubha Kothari

  • Current location: San Francisco, CA

Meredith Brown

Atanas Chanev

  • Current location: University of Trento (Italy)
  • Website:

Florian Jaeger

Timmy Desmet

John Hale

Raj Singh

Ex-Research Assistants

Maya Taliaferro, MIT

  • Current location: Graduate Student at NYU

Lia Washington, MIT

  • Current location: Early Childhood Cognition Lab (PI Laura Schultz) at MIT

Cindy Fang

  • Current location: UC Merced

Misha Ali

  • Current location: Brown

Recent UROPs

Anna Zhou, MIT

Karenna Caton, MIT

Titus Roesler, MIT

Theo Cucu, MIT

Michael Anoke, MIT

Anita Podrug, MIT

Euphy Liu, Wellesley

Kinan Martin, MIT

Dana McCormack, MIT

Ava Shipman, Wellesley

Caitlin Tan

Zheng Zhang

Sarah Nathaniel

Miguel Salinas

Sarah Wu

Eke Wochoka

In Memory

Masha Babyonyshev

An obituary by David Pesetsky.

An Antonovka apple tree

from Russia, given to Ted by Masha's widower husband Ted Walls. Seen here planted in Ted's backyard.