Akshay K. Jagadish
akjagadish.bsky.social
Akshay K. Jagadish
@akjagadish.bsky.social
Interested in natural and artificial minds.
https://akjagadish.github.io
Please apply to join us at the Helmholtz Munich. It’s a great lab to do science! ☺️
🚨 We're hiring! If you're excited about 🤖 ML/LLMs, 🧠 cognitive science, or 💭 computational psychiatry, come join us in Munich. Two fully funded PhDs @www.helmholtz-munich.de: tailored mentorship, international vibe, lots of room to grow.
📅 May 16th
🔗 hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf
April 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Great to see our work being covered by @nytimes.com! I still cannot believe it 😱
🚨 Big News! Our research has been featured in The New York Times @nytimes.com! 🥳
This engagement highlights the real-world impact of science beyond academia and its role in shaping conversations on AI & mental health.
🔗 Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/science/chatgpt-digital-therapists-anxiety.html
Digital Therapists Get Stressed Too, Study Finds
Chatbots should be built with enough resilience to deal with difficult emotional situations, researchers said.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Ever wondered why only some memories 🧠 come easily? Our latest work (osf.io/preprints/ps...) led by S. Haridi, with @ericschulz.bsky.social, shows that targeted memory retrieval speeds up with precise semantic and temporal retrieval cues. Hence, crafting cues can give you instant access to memories⚡
February 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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🚀 Just 5 days since publication, our paper is already the #1 trending article on @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Digital Medicine! 🥳

🤖 Check out how we induced anxiety in Chat-GPT using traumatic narratives - then calmed it down with mindfulness & meditation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📝
March 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🚨 Fresh off the press!

We showed that one can extract an anxious response from an LLM by including traumatic narratives into the prompt, and interestingly, we can bring the response back to baseline by using mindfulness prompts 😌

It was a fun collaboration, thanks for bringing us on board!! :)
🚀 Just 5 days since publication, our paper is already the #1 trending article on @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Digital Medicine! 🥳

🤖 Check out how we induced anxiety in Chat-GPT using traumatic narratives - then calmed it down with mindfulness & meditation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📝
March 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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About a month late posting this, but here's a new project with @ericschulz.bsky.social, @akjagadish.bsky.social, @marvinmathony.bsky.social and Tobias Ludwig

We are using LLMs to propose cognitive models in learning and decision making data. Presenting this work at RLDM!

arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
Towards Automation of Cognitive Modeling using Large Language Models
Computational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data....
arxiv.org
February 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Better late than never! 😎

In this work, we show how LLMs can be leveraged to generate cognitive models, given human behavioral data, in two paradigms: learning and decision-making.

Very excited to present this at RLDM!

The work is still at preliminary stages so please reach out if you have any 🙏
February 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Better late than never! 😎

In this work, we show how LLMs can be leveraged to generate cognitive models, given human behavioral data, in two paradigms: learning and decision-making.

Very excited to present this at RLDM!

The work is still at preliminary stages so please reach out if you have any 🙏
February 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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We are currently building the largest, cross-domain data set of human behavior as part of an open collaborative project. Contributions of any form are welcome, but especially experiments with meta-data from developmental, cross-cultural, or clinical studies.

More details: github.com/marcelbinz/P...
GitHub - marcelbinz/Psych-201
Contribute to marcelbinz/Psych-201 development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM