Max Siegel
Max Siegel is a postdoc in the Computational Cognitive Science group at MIT. His Ph.D work in the same laboratory was supervised by Josh Tenenbaum as well as Laura Schulz and Josh McDermott.
Max's research concerns recognition (or "identification") of concepts, in particular novel perceptual concepts, and their productive use in cognition. His thesis proposed that people can interpret a class of unfamiliar perceptual stimuli and scenarios -- compositional concepts -- by composing domain theories or "simulators", and gave behavioral and computational evidence for compositional simulation in adult and child perception and cognition.