Jacob Hoover Vigly

Researcher, CHI-FRO
Joined
July 2020

Names

Jacob Hoover Vigly (Preferred)
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Jacob Louis Hoover

Emails

****@mail.mcgill.ca (Confirmed)
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****@mila.quebec (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@mit.edu (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@chi-fro.org (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
CHI-FRO (chi-fro.org)
2025 – Present
Postdoc
Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
2024 – 2025
PhD student
Linguistics, McGill University (mcgill.ca)
2018 – 2024
Undergrad student
Harvard Extension School (extension.harvard.edu)
2006 – 2012

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor
Tim Vieira
2025 – Present
Postdoc Advisor
Roger P. Levy
2024 – Present
Coworker
Michaela Socolof
2018 – Present
PhD Advisor
Timothy J. O'Donnell
2018 – 2024
Coworker
Morgan Sonderegger
2018 – 2024

Expertise

sentence processing
Present
information theory
Present
probabilistic programming
Present
incremental inference algorithms
Present

Publications

Co-Authors