Graduate Students

Elias Acevedo

Graduate Student

Communication and cognition; evolutionary behavioral science

Gulsah Akcakir

Graduate Student

Computational communication; computational modeling and simulation; social networks

Mikhail Belov

Graduate Student

Conversation analysis; political communication; multimodality; text-as-data analysis; linguistic anthropology

Je Hoon Chae

Graduate Student

Political communication; persuasion; misinformation; causal inference; computational social science

Abhinanda Dash

Graduate Student

Communication and cognition; social vision and social robotics

Siyi Gong

Graduate Student

Cultural innovation; communicative intention; shared intentionality

Pooriya Jamie

Graduate Student

Computational communication; data science; human-centered AI; large language models (LLMs); human-computer interaction (HCI)

Borys Jastrzębski

Graduate Student

Cognitive science; computational communication

Jennifer Jiyoung Hwang

Graduate Student

News consumption; social media; political behavior; political psychology; media accuracy; quantitative research methods

Prianka Koya

Graduate Student

Communication and cognition; prejudice and stereotyping; self-concept

Catherine Lacsamana

Graduate Student

Cognition and communication; shared reality and close relationships; self-disclosure; friendship; humor; interpersonal communication

Lin Lin

Graduate Student

Communication and cognition

Jeffrey Mai

Graduate Student

Communication and cognition; music and language development

Grace Qiyuan Miao

Graduate Student

Multimodal communication; social neuroscience; human-AI relations

Garrett Oyama

Graduate Student

Communication and cognition; infant vocalizations; digital environments and infant language development; music development

Zachary Rosen

Graduate Student

Communication and cognition; computational linguistics; large language models

Gabriella Skollar

Graduate Student

Communication and cognition; primate vocal communication; gibbons

Yingjia Wan

Graduate Student

Computational communication; large language models (LLMs); reasoning, evaluation, and post-training alignment; AI for math