Erin Grant

Assistant Professor, Psychology & Computing Science, University of Alberta
Assistant Professor, Center for Data Science, New York University
Joined
October 2017

Names

Erin Grant (Preferred)

Emails

****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)
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****@eecs.berkeley.edu (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@princeton.edu (Confirmed)
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****@ucl.ac.uk (Confirmed)
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****@nyu.edu (Confirmed)
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****@ualberta.ca (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor
Psychology & Computing Science, University of Alberta (ualberta.ca)
2026 – Present
Assistant Professor
Center for Data Science, New York University (nyu.edu)
2025 – 2026
Postdoc
Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London (ucl.ac.uk)
2022 – 2025
PhD student
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
2016 – 2022
Intern
DeepMind (deepmind.com)
2021 – 2021
Intern
Google (google.com)
2019 – 2019
Intern
OpenAI (openai.com)
2018 – 2018
Undergrad student
University of Toronto (cs.toronto.edu)
2011 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor
Andrew Saxe
2022 – 2025
PhD Advisor
Tom Griffiths
2016 – 2022

Expertise

computational neuroscience
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theoretical neuroscience
2022 – Present
cognitive science
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higher-level cognition
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psychology
2016 – Present
deep learning
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connectionism
2016 – Present

Publications

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Co-Authors

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