Todd Gureckis
Professor of Psychology and Data Science
Leads the Computation and Cognition Lab, studying how people learn and explore using computational models that compare human and machine learning.
Todd Gureckis's lab at NYU works on data management & big data. 19 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly Nature Machine Intelligence. 6 PhD students and 2 master's students. 41 alumni, most often to Evie Labs and Meta. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 5%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 41
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 8 papers2025 · T1 1
- 8 papers2024 · T1 0
- 3 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Nature Machine Intelligence
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Data management & big data0 papers
- cognition0 papers
- computational models0 papers
- studying0 papers
- learn0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20258 papers
- Trends in Cognitive ScienceA timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: GeneralCan cognitive discovery be incentivized with money?
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyEstimating Intuitive Physical Parameters Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo with People
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyGoal inference using reward-producing programs in a novel physics environment
- Nature Machine Intelligence (T1)Goals as Reward-Producing Programs
- Scientific DataH-ARC: A Robust Estimate of Human Performance on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus Benchmark
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyIntegration of Language and Experience via the Instructed Bandit Task
- Open MindSeeking new information with old questions: Children and adults reuse and remix concepts from prior questions
20248 papers
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyA nonparametric model of object discovery.
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyHow does social learning affect stable false beliefs?
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyInvestigating Flexible Role Binding in AI Agents
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyMoment-to-moment decisions of when and how to help another person
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyPredicting insight during physical problem solving
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyReuse and Remixing in Question Asking Across Development
- Scientific DataThe "Naturalistic Free Recall" dataset: four stories, hundreds of participants, and high-fidelity transcriptions
- Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC) Finding the Frame WorkshopToward Complex and Structured Goals in Reinforcement Learning
20233 papers
- Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning Workshop @ NeurIPS .Generating Human-Like Goals by Synthesizing Reward-Producing Programs
- Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceIdentifying Causal Subsequent Memory Effects
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyTeaching and Learning Through Pedagogical Environment Design
Where alumni went41 listed, 19% to industry
Industry 3Academia 13
Most often to
- Evie Labs
- Meta
- Netflix
Also to
- Columbia University
- Hampshire College
- Leiden University
Apply to NYUFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Courant / Tandon)
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