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Joshua Tenenbaum PhD '99

Joshua Tenenbaum is also a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1999 and after a brief postdoc with the MIT AI Lab, he joined the Stanford University faculty as Assistant Professor of Psychology and (by courtesy) Computer Science. He returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2002.

He currently serves as Associate Editor of the journal Cognitive Science, and he has been active on the program committees of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) and Cognitive Science (CogSci) conferences. He held a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Predoctoral Fellowship from 1993-1998, and won the Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1997, for “Learning bilinear models for two-factor problems in vision”, with William T. Freeman.