Hi! I'm Danielle :)

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I am a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at NYU, affiliated with the Center for Mind, Brain, & Consciousness.​ In Autumn 2027 I will join the Philosophy Department at The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor.

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I've just finished a postdoc at Purdue, affiliated with the newly established Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center. Before that, I was at WashU as a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow. I received my PhD at UC Davis in 2023, supervised by Zoe Drayson.

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I'm a philosopher of mind and science whose research examines the role of computation in our theories and explanations of the mind and brain. Her work brings together philosophy of mind, cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, with particular interests in computational theories of mind, computational modeling, and the relationship between different explanatory and modeling strategies in the mind sciences. She also investigates philosophical questions raised by contemporary AI, including the nature of opacity in computational models and its implications for explanation in cognitive science. Alongside this work, she is a historian of cognitive science and AI, examining how the development of computer technology has shaped our conceptions and models of the mind and brain. 

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