Dr. Peter Kvam (CV)
Peter is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University. His research interests include judgment and decision-making, cognitive modeling, and new methods for studying psychology and cognitive processes like machine learning and artificial intelligence. Current projects include disordered decision making in substance dependent individuals, differences between binary and multi-alternative decisions or continuous ratings, pricing, and computational methods for studying neural and evolutionary processes.
Konstantina Sokratous (Website)
Graduate Student
k.sokratous@ufl.edu
Konstantina Sokratous is a fifth-year graduate student in the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience area, working with Dr. Peter Kvam. She received a UF Informatics Institute Graduate Fellowship to develop machine learning approaches to model fitting, model comparison, exploratory model building, and has been working on projects related to modeling anticipatory decision-making and timing, pricing of delayed prospects, and decisions among alternatives that change over time.
Abhay Alaukik (CV)
Abhay is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Social Psychology area being co-mentored by Dr. Colin Smith and Dr. Peter Kvam. He received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Kansas before starting his PhD journey in the Cognition and Decision Modeling Lab. He is broadly interested in political/moral psychology, statistical modeling, and quantitative methods. In his current project in the lab, he is exploring how information gets polarized as a function of the kind of task people are assigned (for example, choice vs. estimation tasks) using simulations, agent-based modeling and empirical studies.
Anderson Fitch
Anderson Fitch is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience area, working with Dr. Peter Kvam. He received his B.S. in Psychology from Kansas State University in 2021 and his M.S. in Psychology from the University of Florida in 2023. He is interested in modeling risky and impulsive choices and their connection to large-scale issues such as climate change. His other interests include timing, cooperation, virtual reality in research, and technologically assisted interventions.
Bingsong Zhao (Benson)
Bingsong Zhao (Benson) is a first-year doctoral student who joined in Fall 2024. He received a B.S. in Economics and an M.S. in Psychology from Sun Yat-sen University. He is interested in the computational and neural mechanisms of decision-making, information seeking and learning, as well as related individual and cultural differences. In his free time, Benson enjoys traditional music, hiking, and traveling.
Yiming Wang
Yiming Wang is a first-year doctoral student. She received her B.S. in Psychology in 2022 and her M.S. (Research) in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2023. Then, she took one year off exploring and feeling the world. Now, she is working toward a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at The Ohio State University. She is specially interested in understanding cognition through the lens of mathematical models and currently exploring topics including goal-directed attention, reinforcement learning, decision-making, cognitive efficiency, etc. Outside of academia, she is a sweet tooth, enjoys music, and likes to work out or hang out in good weather.
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