Assistant Professor

Office: 104 Life Science Building
Phone: (502) 852-6197
Email: p.shafto at louisville dot edu

Lab location: 103 Life Sciences Building
Lab website: Computational Cognitive Science Lab

Education

PhD, Northeastern University, 2004

Research Interests

• Human learning and inference, Bayesian computational models of learning and inference, machine learning.

Select Publications

• Kemp, C., Shafto, P., Berke, A., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2006). Combining causal and similarity-based reasoning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
  
• Shafto, P., Kemp, C., Mansinghka, V., Gordon, M., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2006). Learning cross-cutting systems of categories. Proceedings of the 28th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  
• Shafto, P., Kemp, C., Baraff, E., Coley, J.D., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2005). Context-sensitive reasoning. Proceedings of the 27th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  
• Shafto, P. & Coley, J.D. (2003). Development of categorization and reasoning in the natural world: Novices to experts, naive similarity to ecological knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 641-649.
  

• Computational Cognitive Science (Graduate)
• Learning & Reasoning (Graduate)
  

• Statistics (Undergraduate)