Yan (Stella) Si
PhD Student
Yan (Stella) Si is a PhD student at Boston University's
Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, where she researches at the intersection
of cognitive science and AI. Her work focuses on human decision making—automating
the discovery of psychological theories with LLMs, developing computational models,
and building large-scale decision-making datasets. She earned her BS from Boston
College in Psychology and Philosophy, and her MSDS from BU.
Phillip Angelos
PhD Student
Phillip's interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence and psychology,
with a focus on decision-making and impulsivity.
Before BU, he spent two years at Yale researching positive symptom progression in psychosis.
Jeff Hastings
PhD Student
Jeff's research applies machine learning and RL to better understand, explain,
and improve human, artificial, and agentic decision-making. Prior to BU, he earned a BA/MA in
Political Science from Utah State University, an MS in Computational Social Science from UCSD,
and worked as an AI Data Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
