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lucy lai 赖璐西

cognitive scientist & professor

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research | teaching | art

 

hello!

📢🚨 I’m starting as a tenure-track Assistant Teaching Professor 👩🏻‍🏫 in the Department of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego! ☀️ Outside the classroom, my research will explore open questions in decision making, belief change, intellectual humility, and human-AI collaboration to address real-world challenges. I wrote this short reflection about my personal journey towards a teaching-focused academic career.

If you are also interested in teaching faculty positions and would like to learn more, please reach out at anytime. I’ll be sharing a guide on how to apply for such positions very soon, so stay tuned! 🔔

From 2024-2025, I took a year-long “sabbatical,” where I spent some time traveling and writing. I shared some of those writings on this blog. I was lucky to spend my sabbatical as a TSVP Visiting Scholar at the beautiful Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Okinawa, Japan.

Before that, I recieved my Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard, where I was advised by Sam Gershman and supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a Harvey Fellowship. I received my B.A. in Cognitive Science from Rice University.

Outside of research, I enjoy teaching, writing poetry, good coffee, and latin dancing. From 2021-2023, I was a Resident Tutor at Quincy House, where I lived with and advised Harvard College students.

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