Hello there!
I work on the theoretical foundations of cognitive science and AI.
I am a senior undergrad at the University of Michigan’s Weinberg institute for Cognitive Science. During the past year I was a visiting student at UCL where I was affiliate with the MetaLab, and was an AI fellow at the Institute of Philosophy. I spent my first-year in the Cognitive Science MA program at The University of Edinburgh.
Updates
Feb 2026
- “A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite” is #1 paper of the month on Huggingface!
Dec 2025
- Presenting a short theory piece against the simulation and rendering dichotomy at the SpaVLE workshop @NeurIPS
Nov 2025
- Attending the Eleos Conference, presenting a new work on assessing perceptual metacognition in VLM
Oct 2025
- Talk at Models of Consciousness
- Jane and Martin are presenting our work “Vision-Language Models Are Not Pragmatically Competent in Referring Expression Generation” at COLM!
Aug 2025
- Presenting a new work with Yage at CogSci on an experienced-first approach to autistic pragmatics
July 2025
- TA’ing for the Cognitive Neuroscience course at X Academy (3rd round!), presenting a workshop on consciousness
- Hosting a career panel at ASSC
- William is presenting our work “Core Knowledge Deficits in Multi-Modal Language Models” at ICML!
June 2025
- Attending the Evaluating Artificial Consciousness workshop at RUB
- Talk at the Institute of Philosophy
May 2025
- Talk at the International Conference on Large-scale AI Risks in Leuven
- Talk x2 at SPAN
Dezhi Luo 