Carina Kauf

Carina Kauf

Ph.D., Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Welcome!

I recently completed my Ph.D. in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, where I was advised by Evelina Fedorenko. In my work, I investigate how the human brain and large language models process language and how the representations learned by these two systems compare. To do so, I bridge insights from artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive science. I am grateful for funding support from the MIT Quest for Intelligence. Before to coming to MIT, I completed my double B.A. and M.Ed. degrees in Mathematics and English at the University of Göttingen, Germany (with coursework/research conducted at Harvard University and the University of Warwick, UK). Afterwards, I worked as a research scientist in the Linguistics department in Göttingen, focusing on formal semantics.

Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Education
Education
  • Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • M.Ed. in Mathematics and English

    University of Göttingen

  • Double B.A. in Mathematics and English

    University of Göttingen