News from The Computational Mind Lab, Chiba Tech School of Design & Sciencehttps://cml.chibatech.dev/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-07-16-miso-camp/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-07-16-miso-camp/A two-day working session on directing AI — for practitioners whose expertise isn't software engineering. Co-organized by Joe with Noah Raford and Igor Schwarzmann.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-06-25-chil-tempo/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-06-25-chil-tempo/Our transformer-based approach to inferring disease progression from cross-sectional data appeared at the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-06-15-cogsci-2026/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-06-15-cogsci-2026/Three papers led by Zhuolun Zhong on teaching reinforcement learning agents by intervening on the world were presented at CogSci 2026.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-05-15-hongtao-phd/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-05-15-hongtao-phd/Hongtao Hao completed his PhD in May 2026, capping it with a run of papers on modeling how diseases progress.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-04-01-sds-launch/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-04-01-sds-launch/Chiba Tech's new English-language graduate school — the academic arm of the Henkaku Center — welcomed its first students in April 2026.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-03-20-jcss-shiritori/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-03-20-jcss-shiritori/What 9,891 moves of a Japanese word-chain game reveal about how second-language learners retrieve words under a phonological constraint — with Jumpei Nishikawa and Junya Morita.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-03-11-projustice-panel/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-03-11-projustice-panel/Joe joined a panel at "Pro-Justice: Cross-Cultural Approaches to AI Ethics" at the University of Tokyo, co-organized with the University of Cambridge.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-02-20-ampc-talk/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-02-20-ampc-talk/Joe presented at the 2026 Australasian Mathematical Psychology Conference.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-01-09-shizuoka-seminar/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2026-01-09-shizuoka-seminar/Joe gave an invited talk at Shizuoka University's Informatics Seminar.Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2025-12-12-apcs-kickoff/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2025-12-12-apcs-kickoff/Joe presented at the Asia-Pacific Cognitive Science kickoff at ICCS 2025 and began new collaborations across the region.Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2025-12-05-ml4h-neurips/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2025-12-05-ml4h-neurips/Our work on subtype inference and mixed-pathology progression modeling was presented at ML4H 2025 and at the NeurIPS workshop on Learning from Time Series for Health.Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2025-10-02-cosmos/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2025-10-02-cosmos/Joe co-instructed at COSMOS 2025, gave a talk on MCMC with People, and led a six-student project on teaching by state intervention.Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2025-09-18-ncnp-talk/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2025-09-18-ncnp-talk/Joe spoke at NCNP on understanding disease progression using Bayesian event-based models.Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2025-06-09-move-to-japan/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2025-06-09-move-to-japan/Joseph Austerweil moves to Chiba Tech in Japan to co-found new graduate school for Design and ScienceMon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2024-09-01-catgen-cbb/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2024-09-01-catgen-cbb/When people invent a new category, they do not just extrapolate from what they know — they build something that contrasts with it.Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2023-12-01-scirep-semantic-search/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2023-12-01-scirep-semantic-search/Jeff Zemla leads a paper in Scientific Reports finding that people search their semantic memory near-optimally across the adult lifespan.Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2023-07-31-templeton-rumination/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2023-07-31-templeton-rumination/Funding from the John Templeton Foundation (through Duke University) to ask whether rumination is necessary or disordered computation.Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2022-10-05-riken-aip/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2022-10-05-riken-aip/While on sabbatical from UW–Madison, Joe spent time as a visiting researcher at RIKEN's Advanced Intelligence Project in Tokyo and gave a talk on human and machine learning.Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2022-02-01-aro-teaming-grant/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2022-02-01-aro-teaming-grant/A three-year ARO project on human-guided machine learning for futuristic human-machine teaming.Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2021-11-01-jepgen-communication/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2021-11-01-jepgen-communication/Mark Ho leads a paper on belief-directed planning and pragmatic action interpretation — how actions become messages.Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2021-09-01-psychreview-refresh/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2021-09-01-psychreview-refresh/A new account of dimensional biases in perceptual similarity and categorization, with Adam Sanborn, Katherine Heller, and Nick Chater.Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2021-07-09-mathpsych-keynote/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2021-07-09-mathpsych-keynote/Joe delivered a keynote on knowledge representation and retrieval at the 2021 meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology.Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2021-04-15-nih-epilepsy-grant/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2021-04-15-nih-epilepsy-grant/Joe joins a five-year NIH National Institute on Aging project studying PET/MR correlates of accelerated aging in chronic epilepsy.Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2020-08-01-snafu-published/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2020-08-01-snafu-published/The Semantic Network and Fluency Utility — our open toolbox for estimating semantic networks from fluency data — appeared in Behavior Research Methods.Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2020-06-15-plos-bilingualism/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2020-06-15-plos-bilingualism/Kendra Lange and Elise Hopman led a paper finding no relation between bilingualism and creativity — one of two 2020 journal articles with UW–Madison undergraduate co-authors.Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2020-04-24-Jeff/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2020-04-24-Jeff/Longtime alab member Jeff has accepted an assistant professorship at Syracuse University.Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2020-04-24-labawards/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2020-04-24-labawards/Congratulations to Elise and Joe on their awards!Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2019-07-30-cogsci/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2019-07-30-cogsci/Math Psych and Cog Sci 2019!Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2019-05-04-lab-awards/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2019-05-04-lab-awards/Members of the Austerweil lab win a series of awards!Sat, 04 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2019-05-01-new-members/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2019-05-01-new-members/The Austerweil lab would like to welcome a host of new members to the lab!Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2019-04-25-stars/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2019-04-25-stars/Flash talk and poster session by Jacki and peers at the recent Psychology S.T.A.R.S. event!Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-08-02-prep/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-08-02-prep/Farewell to our visiting PREP undergraduates Rebekah and Sophie!Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-07-29-cogsci/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-07-29-cogsci/Strong lab presence at 2018 Math Psych and Cog Sci conferences!Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-06-02-minigolf/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-06-02-minigolf/The lab bids Sean Chang farewell with a minigolf party!Sat, 02 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-04-14-cogsci-acceptances/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-04-14-cogsci-acceptances/The Austerweil Lab will be presenting 6 papers at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (4 talks, 2 posters).Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-04-13-ugrad-symp/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-04-13-ugrad-symp/Excellent presentations by lab members Jacqueline Erens and Kendra Lange during the 2018 Undergraduate Symposium!Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-02-05-mathpsych-announce/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-02-05-mathpsych-announce/Prof. Austerweil is co-organizing Math Psych 2018 (July 21-24, 2018)Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-01-31-newlabmembers/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2018-01-31-newlabmembers/Shi Xian Liew and Nicole Beckage joined the lab in January 2018Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2017-12-07-mark-grad/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2017-12-07-mark-grad/Mark Ho graduates and goes to uc berkeley to work with tom griffiths and sanjit seshiaThu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2017-10-31-socialsimstart/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2017-10-31-socialsimstart/DARPA I2O computational social simulation program grant with VTTue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2017-08-17-postdoc-ad/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2017-08-17-postdoc-ad/The Austerweil Lab is planning to hire a postdoctoral researcher examining the behavior of large-scale simulations of agent-based models of belief updating.Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2017-05-02-cogsci-mathpsych-acceptances/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2017-05-02-cogsci-mathpsych-acceptances/The Austerweil Lab will be presenting 4 papers at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (2 talks, 2 posters) and will be presenting two talks at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology.Tue, 02 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2017-04-16-ra-awards/https://cml.chibatech.dev/en/news/2017-04-16-ra-awards/Our wonderful undergraduate RAs Jacqueline Erens and Kendra Lange won Psychology Undergraduate Research Awards.Sun, 16 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT