Bio
Joseph Jay Williams is Assistant Professor in Computer Science (with a Graduate Appointment in Psychology), leading the Intelligent Adaptive Interventions research group. He was previously Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore’s School of Computing in the Department of Information Systems & Analytics, a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, and a member of the Intelligent Interactive Systems Group in Computer Science.
He completed a postdoc at Stanford University in Summer 2014, working with the Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning and the Open Learning Initiative. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in Computational Cognitive Science, where he applied Bayesian statistics and machine learning to model how people learn and reason. He received his BSc from U of T in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.