About
Hi! I am a predoctoral research fellow working with Judy Fan in the Cognitive Tools Lab at Stanford. I am broadly interested in how visual experiences shape ourselves and others. My research projects have investigated how people learn in classrooms, play and design games, collaboratively sketch, and reason about intuitive physics with approaches from cognitive science, education, neuroscience, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.
I graduated from MIT with B.S. in Computation and Cognition and a minor in Women’s & Gender Studies in 2024. During my time there, I studied physical reasoning (e.g. material perception, surprising stability) with Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz, Max Siegel & Vivian Paulun. I tested models of primate visual processing with Jim DiCarlo and Kohitij Kar. I also spent a wonderful summer at Princeton exploring latent state inference with Yael Niv and Rachel Bedder.
Contact
Email: kxzheng [at] Stanford [dot] edu
