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Cameron Ellis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, where he leads the Scaffolding Cognition Team. His research focuses on understanding the cognitive development of infants, particularly how they perceive, attend to, learn, and remember information. He employs advanced neuroimaging techniques, such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), to investigate the cognitive mechanisms that underlie infants' minds during awake and behaving states. Dr. Ellis earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2021, along with a Master of Arts from Princeton University in 2017, and a Bachelor of Science with honors from Auckland University in New Zealand in 2013. He has received several accolades for his academic contributions, including the FLUX Dissertation Prize and the James Grossman Dissertation Prize in 2021, and the William Kessen Teaching Award in 2019.
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