Tom

Griffiths

Professor of Psychology and Computer Science; Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture.

Research interests: Machine learning; developing mathematical models of higher level cognition and understanding the formal principles that underlie people’s ability to solve everyday computational problems.

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

illustration of bias in vision — In a recent study, Princeton researchers described how people are prone to distort spatial information based on their shared expectations about a scene. The researchers studied multiple observers' recollections of the location of dots on computer screens.

Shared expectations help shape visual memory

Oil painting of stone tower — Researchers used machine learning to create the first large-scale, data-driven study to illuminate how culture affects the meanings of words.

Machine learning reveals role of culture in shaping meanings of words

Tom Griffiths portrait — Tom Griffiths, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture of Psychology and Computer Science

Schmidt DataX Fund supports research projects that harness data science to speed up discovery

Photo of Thomas Griffiths — Thomas Griffiths. Photo by Tania Lombrozo, Department of Psychology

Griffiths receives Troland prize from the National Academy of Sciences

Computer Science

Leading the field through foundational theory, applications, and societal impact

Tom Griffiths

Professor of Psychology and Computer Science; Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture.

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Shared expectations help shape visual memory

Machine learning reveals role of culture in shaping meanings of words

Schmidt DataX Fund supports research projects that harness data science to speed up discovery

Griffiths receives Troland prize from the National Academy of Sciences

Computer Science

Psychology

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Tom

Griffiths