Judy Fan

Judy Fan is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and, by courtesy, Education and Computer Science, at Stanford University. She directs the Cognitive Tools Lab, which aims to reverse engineer the human cognitive toolkit, especially how people use physical representations of thought to learn, communicate, and solve problems.

Towards this end, her lab employs converging approaches from cognitive science, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. She previously held a faculty appointment at the University of California, San Diego, earned her PhD in Psychology from Princeton University, and received her AB in Neurobiology and Statistics from Harvard College.