Jennifer Hu@_jennhu

Research Fellow at @Harvard and incoming Asst Prof at @JohnsHopkins interested in language, cognition, and AI. Formerly: PhD @MIT.

 Cambridge, MA
jennhu.github.io
Joined June 2009
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Excited to share that I will join Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science in July 2025! I am starting the ✨Group for Language and Intelligence (GLINT)✨, which will study how language works in minds and machines: glintlab.org Details below 👇 1/4
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Excited to share a new preprint w/ @Michael_Lepori & @meanwhileina! A dominant approach in AI/cogsci uses *outputs* from AI models (eg logprobs) to predict human behavior. But how does model *processing* (across a forward pass) relate to human real-time processing? 👇 (1/12)
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Our work also suggests a new way of using AI models to study cognition: not just as a black box mapping stimuli to outputs, but potentially also as processing models. Excited about future work using mech interp to make new, testable predictions about human cognition! (11/12)
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Preprint link: arxiv.org/abs/2504.14107 A huge thank you to my amazing collaborators Michael Lepori & Michael Franke! (12/12)

Signatures of human-like processing in Transformer forward passes

Modern AI models are increasingly being used as theoretical tools to study human cognition. One dominant approach is to evaluate whether human-derived measures are predicted by a model's output:...

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Stop by our #NeurIPS tutorial on Experimental Design & Analysis for AI Researchers! 📊 neurips.cc/virtual/2024/tuto… Are you an AI researcher interested in comparing models/methods? Then your conclusions rely on well-designed experiments. We'll cover best practices + case studies. 👇
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Topics include: - statistical inference - hypothesis testing - visualizing uncertainty - case studies evaluating LLMs' cognitive abilities + LLMs for education Co-organized with @mc_mozer & @khermann_! The tutorial is Tue Dec 10 @ 9:30. See you in Vancouver!
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I'm recruiting PhD students + postdocs for my lab, coming to @JohnsHopkins in Fall 2025! Our brand new lab is at the intersection of cognitive science and AI, using computational + behavioral methods to understand how language works in minds and machines. Details below! (1/4)
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More details about the lab can be found at: glintlab.org Please also check out our FAQ for applicants: tinyurl.com/bde6syjz The PhD application deadline is December 1, 2024 (for entry in Fall 2025). Looking forward to seeing your applications! (4/4)
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Forgot to add: if you would like help with your application, please consider the PhD application mentorship program, run by current graduate students and postdocs at Johns Hopkins CogSci! 😀 Apply by November 5 for full priority: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

JHU Cognitive Science PhD Application Mentoring for Prospective Students 2024 Cycle

We, a group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins, are offering one-on-one mentoring about applying to our department. By filling out...

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Many thanks @yoavartzi, and thank you to all the @COLM_conf organizers for a fantastic conference!!! 🥳🦙 I'm honored to receive a paper award with @mcxfrank at the first-ever COLM, and so excited to see more cogsci-related work in the COLMs to come!
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