About
I am a third-year PhD student at the Department of Brain and Cognitve Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by Josh Tenenbaum and Roger Levy. Previously, I completed my undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley with backgrounds in cognitive science, computer science, logic, and philosophy.
My full name is Cedegao Zhang, and I go by Ced.
Email: cedzhang [at] mit [dot] edu
News
- (Dec. 2024) I'm co-organizing the Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI at NeurIPS.
Research overview
I am broadly interested in studying the following areas from interdisciplinary perspectives:
- Artificial intelligence
- Language models; agents; neurosymbolic systems;
- Natural language processing
- Language understanding and generation
- Computational cognitive science
- Learning; thinking and reasoning; problem solving
- Philosophy
- of language, mind, science, and AI
Questions I like to think about these days: What are the strengths and limitations of LLMs? What are good approaches to combine LLMs with symbolic computations? In what sense are humans better learners, reasoners, and communicators than state-of-the-art AI? And how can we make AI more efficient and rational? How should we think about the relationships and interactions between humans and AI, both individually and collectively?
On top of these interests and questions, my long-term reaserach goal is to (1) build general AI systems in a human-inspired and human-compatible way with a focus on language, and (2) advance the understanding of intelligence through theories and models.