I am a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley, advised by Bill Thompson. I am interested in understanding the computational principles of social intelligence: what gives rise to the unique successes (and failures) of human social reasoning, and how might we develop artificial intelligence that emulates and builds on those strengths, while helping us overcome our shortcomings? In particular, I am interested in studying the computations implicated in joint planning – the capacity for intelligent agents to work together to achieve a shared goal. I investigate these questions through a combination of computational modeling, behavioral experiments and large-scale data analysis. In my free time, you can find me running in the Berkeley Hills, watching soccer, or trying my hand at a new visual art form.
Dhara Yu
