Category: Lab News

Many congratulations to Sev Harootonian for submitting his thesis! We are very excited for Sev’s thesis defense later this month!

Hearty congratulations to Gili Karni for receiving the D. G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award from American Psychological Association (2026) for her publication titled “A rational information gathering account of infant habituation” (Karni, Mattar, Emerson & Daw, 2025)!

We are pleased to welcome Anna Williams as a rotating student in the Niv Lab this semester!

Congratulations to Jialing Ding for the acceptance of her protocol for a ‘Randomized Trial to Predict the Efficacy of Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions for Symptoms of Depression’ in Frontiers in Psychiatry!

Congratulations to Rachel Bedder who is now a Research & Data Associate at Center for Justice Innovation! We’re so proud!

A very warm welcome Mohamed Abloul who will be joining us at Niv Lab this semester to work on his Master’s thesis!

Congratulations to Gili Karni for submitting her thesis! We are very excited for Gili for her thesis defense later this month!

Many congratulations to Dan-Mircea Mirea who was awarded a grant from the Center for Health and Wellbeing!

We kick off Fall semester at the Niv Lab with a warm welcome to our new postdocs, Camilla Van Geen, Ellie Holton, and Will Koller!

Congratulations to Deepta Chandrasekhar who presented a poster at CCN 2025!

Congratulations to our summer interns, Charlotte Bell, Luke Cho, Micaela Fernandez, and Lynne Abraham for completing their summer internships! We’re excited for what you do next!

Congratulations to Gili Karni, whose submission “How goals affect information seeking” was selected for a talk at the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) 2025 conference! 🎉

The warmest welcome to our new postdoc Jungsun Yoo! So happy to have you join us!

Congratulations to Branson Byers and Dan-Mircea Mirea who are Graduate Student Fellows in Cognitive Science this year!!

We bid a bittersweet farewell to our postdocs — Rachel Bedder, Nadav Amir, and Isabel Berwian. The lab will truly miss you, but we are so excited to see all that you accomplish next. Wishing you the best of luck!

Congratulations to Branson Byers, Jamie Chiu, Dan-Mircea Mirea, and Yael Niv, for their poster presentations at RLDM 2025! RLDM also brought together past, present, and future members of the Niv Lab, who reconnected over a lovely dinner. Sweet!

Gili Karni is off to an exciting summer internship in Machine Learning Research at Netflix! Congratulations, we can’t wait to hear all about it.

Many congratulations to Jamie Chiu who presented at the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA) 2025. We are proud to announce that Jamie received the Best Student Late Breaking Work award for her submission titled, Emotions Shape Effort-Reward Choices: Positive Valence Decreases Effort, Except Under High Arousal!

Many congratulations to Charlotte Bell, Allen Nieva, and Anna Benzeevi for their fantastic achievements! Allen has secured a paid internship at Purdue University this summer, Charlotte has received funding from both the Psychology department and the Cognitive Science fellowship for her thesis project on support-seeking preferences in depression, and Anna was selected for a summer…

We’re proud to congratulate Dan-Mircea Mirea for his series of achievements! He is a Graduate Fellow at Data-Driven Social Science for the spring semester, has been awarded the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship, which “recognizes students in their later years of study for outstanding academic performance and professional promise,” and has won the Psychology of…