Angela Y. Cao

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I am an incoming Ph.D. student in cognitive science at NYU, where I am primarily advised by Bob Rehder in the Concepts & Causality Lab.

My research takes two main directions:

  1. I quantify and give formal structure to mental attitude concepts like intentionality, abstraction, etc. to study how such concepts decompose and recompose to give language meaning. [1]
  2. I design pipelines for scaling the generation of experimental language stimuli using large language models, which improves the efficiency of the scientific process and the coverage of our conclusions. [2]


Outside of research, I enjoy hot yoga, hiking, and restoring vintage clothing.


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