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Indiana University Bloomington
Chen Yu

Dr. Chen Yu

Associate Professor

 

chenyu [at] indiana.edu | personal website

office: PY 346 | (812)856-0838

lab: Computational Cognition and Learning Lab
   PY A108 | (812)856-1920

 

Cognitive development; language acquisition; perceptual intelligence; machine learning

Educational Background

  • 2004 - Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Rochester

Areas of Study

  • Cognitive Science
  • Developmental Psychology

Research Topics

  • Cognitive development
  • Statistical learning
  • Embodied social cognition
  • Multimodal human-human and human-robot interactions
  • Perception and action
  • Data mining

Research Summary:

My research focuses on understanding human development and learning through both empirical studies and computational models with the hope to get a more complete picture. I am particularly interested in how language is grounded in sensorimotor experience and how language development depends on complex interactions among brain, body and environment. Based on computational models of human language acquisition and findings from empirical studies, my passion is to build anthropomorphic machines that learn and use language in human-like ways.

Representative Publications

in press - Chen Yu and Linda B. Smith, " Rapid Word Learning under
Uncertainty via Cross-Situational Statistics ", Psychological Science.

in press - Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard, "A Unified Model of Early Word
Learning: Integrating Statistical and Social Cues", Neurocomputing.

2005 - Chen Yu, Dana H. Ballard and Richard N. Aslin, "The Role of Embodied
Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition", Cognitive Science, 29(6),961-1005.

2005 - Chen Yu, "The Emergence of Links between Lexical Acquisition and
Object Categorization: A Computational Study", Connection Science,
17(3-4),381-392.

2004 - Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard, "A Multimodal Learning Interface for Grounding Spoken Language in Sensory Perceptions", ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 1, 57-80.

2004 - Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard, "On the Integration of Grounding Language and Learning Objects", Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

2003 - Chen Yu, Dana H. Ballard and Richard N. Aslin, "The Role of Embodied Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition", Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society. [The Marr Prize winner]

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