Keynote Lecture: Brenden M. Lake

Brenden M. Lake, Princeton University

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology

Brenden M. Lake is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Princeton University. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in 2009 and his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from MIT in 2014. He was a postdoctoral Data Science Fellow at NYU from 2014–2017 and a faculty member there from 2017–2025.

Brenden is a recipient of the Robert J. Glushko Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Cognitive Science, an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35, and the author of research selected by Scientific American as one of the 10 most important advances of 2016. His research seeks the ingredients of intelligence: his lab uses advances in machine intelligence to better understand human intelligence, and insights from human cognition to develop more fruitful and capable forms of machine intelligence.