News
09/2018: Our work on cognitive tutors won the best poster award at KogWis 2018
05/25/2018: Press Release about the Rationality Enhancement Group: https://is.mpg.de/en/news/cyber-valley-attracts-research-group-leaders-from-around-the-world
11/21/2017: I am giving a talk on reverse-engineering and enhancing human intelligence at DeepMind in London.
11/13/2017: I presented our cognitive tutor and research on to-do list gamification at JDM in Vancouver.
06/19/2017: Submitted two JDM abstracts: The first one presents our intelligent brain training system and the second shows that optimal gamification can help people procrastinate less.
06/15/2017: Submitted grant proposal on optimal gamification.
06/13/2017: We gave a talk and presented 5 posters at RLDM.
06/05/2017: I gave an invited talk about accelerating cognitive plasticity with optimal feedback at Neuroscape.
04/11/2017: CogSci has accepted our paper on discovering rational heuristics by solving meta-level MDPs as a talk, and our paper on enhancing metacognitive reinforcement learning and our paper on the computational complexity of goal management have been accepted as posters.
04/10/2017: All six RLDM abstracts have been accepted and our work on modeling and enhancing metacognitive reinforcement learning has been selected for an oral presentation.
04/02/2017: Our article "Empirical evidence for resource-rational anchoring and adjustment" has been accepted by Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
03/31/2017: Our article "The anchoring bias reflects rational use of cognitive resources" has been accepted by Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
03/04/2017: We have submitted 6 abstracts to the 3rd Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making.
02/01/2017: We have submitted 3 articles to the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
12/09/2016: Our abstract "Optimal gamification makes good decisions easier" has been accepted for presentation at the Fifth World Congress on Positive Psychology.
11/22/2016: Back from the annual meeting of the society for judgment and decision-making. I presented a poster on how people learn to make rational use of fallible heuristics and gave a talk on utility-weighted sampling.
05/08/2016: We submitted our paper "Strategy selection as rational metareasoning."
04/19/2016: We have submitted our paper "Over-representation of extreme events in decision-making reflects rational use of cognitive resources"
04/05/2016: Our CogSci paper on Optimal gamification has been accepted.
09/08/2015: We have submitted "Rational Metareasoning as a Computational Level Theory of Cognitive Control" to Nature Neuroscience. Wish us luck!
08/26/2015: I am co-organizing the NIPS 2015 workshop Bounded Optimality and Rational Metareasoning. Please consider submitting an abstract!