Team

Dr. Falk Lieder, Principal Investigator

Lisa von Eckerstorfer, researcher, works on designing and evaluating apps for attention control training, goal-setting, and goal-achievement

Valkyrie Felso, Ph.D. student, works on improving human decision-making with the help of inverse reinforcement learning

Yash Raj Jain, researcher, works on strategy discovery, and measuring and reverse-engineering metacognitive learning

Julian Skirzynski, researcher, works on discovering human interpretable decision strategies via Bayesian program induction

Hernán Gonzalez, researcher, works on effective goal setting

Aashay Mehta, B.Sc. thesis on robust strategy discovery methods for risky choice and planning

Saksham Consul, B.Sc. thesis on scalable strategy discovery

Victoria Amo, researcher, works on promoting adaptive metacognitive beliefs (growth mindset, self-efficacy, and mindfulness)

Jugoslav Stojcheski, research assistant, works on AI for productivity

Ella Eisemann, intern, works on a goal-setting intervention for helping people overcome procrastination

Mateo Tosic, web developer

Sierra Kaiser, administrative assistant and study coordinator

Anastasia Lado, student assistant, works on executive functions training

Bastian Nowozimski, lab manager and study coordinator

Mara Cascianelli, administrative assistant

Alumni:

• Dr. Maria Wirzberger, postdoc, works on executive functions training and intelligent cognitive tutors
• Anirudha Kemtur, B.Sc. thesis on robust methods for discovering planning strategies
• Florian Mohnert, developed a method for computing optimal subgoals for people and modeled strategy selection in risky choice
• Sanit Gupta, intern working on metacognitive reinforcement learning
• Vasundhara Rakesh, intern working on metacognitive reinforcement learning
• Gabriela Iwama, Intern, develops psychometric measures of cognitive growth
• Lin Xu, Intern, worked on incentivizing self-directed learning with optimal brain points
• Agrippa Kellum, Study Project, worked on to-do list gamification