PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Conference Presentations:
International Workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning IMOL (6th) – Sept 2023 – (Paris, FR)
Poster: “Curiouser and Curiouser: Children’s Intrinsic Exploration of Mazes and Its Effects On Reaching A Goal In DeepMind Lab”
Cognitive Science Conference (43rd) – July 2023 – (Sydney, AU)
Oral presentation: “Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses”
Curiosity, Complexity, and Creativity – May 2023 – (Manhattan, NYC)
Poster: “Curiouser and Curiouser: Children’s Intrinsic Exploration of Mazes and Its Effects On Reaching A Goal In DeepMind Lab”
Cognitive Science Conference (42nd) – July 2022 – (Toronto, CA)
Poster: “Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models”
Computational Summer School on Modeling Social and Collective Behavior (COSMOS) – July 2022 – (Konstanz, DE)
Poster: “Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models”
CDS (Cognitive Development Society) – April 2022 (Madison, WI)
Poster: Learning Casual Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models
CLeaR (First conference on causal Learning and Reasoning) – April 2022 (Eureka, CA)
Talk: (top 10%) & Paper: Learning Casual Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models
NAISys (From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems) – April 2022 – (Long Island, NY)
Poster: “Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models”
Cognitive Science Conference (41st) – July 2021 – (Virtual)- Workshop “Using Games to Understand Intelligence”
Invited talk/panelist: “Exploring exploration in children and artificial agents in various game environments”
Poster: “The Omniglot Jr. Challenge: Can a model achieve child-level character generation and classification”
Society of Philosophy and Psychology SPP – June 2021 – (Virtual)
Poster: “The Development of Creative Search Strategies”
NAISys (From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems) – March 2021 – (Virtual)
Poster: “Children’s intrinsic exploration of mazes compared to exploration algorithms”;
NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) – Dec 2020 – (Virtual) BabyMind Workshop
Paper: The Omniglot Jr. challenge; Can a model achieve child-level character generation and classification?
Cognitive Science Conference (41st) – July 2020 – (Virtual) - Workshop “The Origins of Commonsense in Humans and Machines”:
Invited talk/panelist: “Curiosity and Exploration in Children’s Maze Playing using DeepMind Lab”
Poster: “The Development of Creative Search Strategies”
Poster: ‘Exploring exploration: Comparing Children with Agents in Unified Exploration Environment’s”
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) – April 2020 – (Virtual)
Workshop: “Bridging AI and Cognitive Science (BAICS)”
Oral presentation: “Exploring Exploration: Comparing Children with RL agents in Unified Environments”
Jericho Fellowship – Aug. 2019 – Venice, Italy
Prize winner: Innovation award for work on increasing STEM diversity by creating programmable dolls ($12,000)
Cognitive Science Conference (40th) – July 2019 - Montreal, CA
Poster: Curiouser and Curiouser: Children’s intrinsic motivation of mazes and its effects on reaching a goal;
Curiosity, Explanation and Exploration Workshop – June 2019 - Princeton, NJ Workshop:
Invited talk at Princeton University: “Are kids a-maze-ing at exploration? “
YCombinator 120 Conference – March 2019 - Denver, CO - Invited participant
Microsoft New England Machine Learning Day – April 2018 - Cambridge, MA
Poster: One-Shot learning and Classification in Children; Eliza Kosoy, Brenden Lake, Laura Schultz and Joshua Tenenbaum.
MIT Intelligence Quest – March 2018 - Cambridge, MA
Poster: One-Shot learning and Classification in Children; Eliza Kosoy, Brenden Lake, Laura Schultz and Joshua Tenenbaum.
Cognitive Science Conference (39th) London, UK
Poster: One-Shot learning and Classification in Children; Eliza Kosoy, Brenden Lake, Laura Schultz and Joshua Tenenbaum.
Journal Publications:
Special issue on Algorithms in our lives, Perspectives on Psychological Science (Sept. 2023) - Yiu E, Kosoy, E., & Gopnik, A.
Kosoy, E., Reagan ER, Lai L, Gopnik, A., & DK Cobb - Submitted to NeurIPS Workshops 2023
Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses - Kosoy, E., Chan D, Liu A, Collins J, Hamrick J, Ke N, Huang S, Kauffman B, Canny J & Gopnik, A. - Submitted, (October 2023)
The Development of Creative Search Strategies. Cognition, (June 2022) - Hart, Y., Kosoy, E., Liquin, E., Leonard, J. A., Mackey, A., & Gopnik, A.
Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models. - CLeaR - Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning
(April 2022) - Kosoy, E., Liu A, Collins J, Chan D, Hamrick J, Ke N, Huang S, Kauffman B, Canny J & Gopnik, A.
Exploring Exploration: Comparing Children with RL Agents in Unified Environments. - ICLR – International Conference on Learning Representations,
(May 2020) - Kosoy, E, Collins J, Chan D, Huang S, Pathak D, Agrawal P, Canny J, Gopnik A, Hamrick J
The Omniglot Jr. challenge; Can a model achieve child-level character generation and classification? - NeurIPS - Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems – (Dec 2020) *Virtual - Kosoy, E, Belyi M, Snell C, Lake B, Tenenbaum J, Gopnik A. - Workshop paper: “Baby Mind” workshop
Draping an Elephant: Uncovering Children's Reasoning About Cloth-Covered Objects. - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (July 2019) - Ullman, T., Kosoy, E., Yildirim, I., Soltani, A.A., Siegel, M.H., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Spelke, E.S.
Preschoolers’ Understanding of Heavy and Light: Inference and Prediction (Submitted Child Development) - Ullman T.D., Kosoy E, Tenenbaum J.B. and Spelke E.
Central Ghrelin Resistance Permits the Over Consolidation of Fear Memory. Biological Psychiatry (2016) - Harmatz E, Stone L, Lim S, Lee G, McGrath A, Gisabella B, Peng X, Kosoy E, Yao J, Liu E, Machado N, Weiner V, Slocum W, Cunha R, Goosens K
Workshops Organized:
Object Representations for Learning and Reasoning- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) – Dec 2020 – (Virtual) - Workshop Organizer:
The Origins of Common Sense in Humans and Machines. - Organized Workshop - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (July 2020) -
Awards & Grants:
Google BAIR Commons GSR Recipient (2020/2021): “Learning from Play in Children and Robots”
Jericho Fellowship “Innovation Award” (2019)
The Berkeley Fellowship (2018-2020)
President Sister Janet Eisner, SND Endowment Scholarship (2012-2014)
St. Catherine Medal Kappa Gamma Pi for student achievement and leadership (2014)