Professor Dr. Joseph Williams

Biography

Joseph Jay Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, with a Graduate Appointment in Psychology. He leads the Intelligent Adaptive Interventions research group and has a strong background in Cognitive Neuroscience, particularly in areas related to perception, cognition, and learning. Prior to his current position, he served as an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore's School of Computing in the Department of Information Systems & Analytics and worked as a Research Fellow at Harvard's Office of Vice Provost Advances in Learning. He completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University in the summer of 2014, focusing on online learning and the Open Learning Initiative. Dr. Williams earned his PhD in Computational Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley, where he applied Bayesian statistics to model how people learn and reason. He holds a B.Sc. in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Mathematics from the University of Toronto, and was originally from Trinidad and Tobago.

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