Welcome to Co-Mind

Welcome to the Communicative Mind Laboratory (Co-Mind) in the Department of Communication at UCLA. We conduct research on the cognitive science of communication, focusing on the dynamic coordination of communication and cognition in time.

Our research employs diverse methods including:

• Corpus and large-scale data analysis
• Behavioral experimentation
• Computational modeling

Find us at Rolfe Hall, UCLA.

People

• Encounter VIII: Lab Mascot, UCLA
• Rick Dale: Professor, Communication, UCLA
• Grace Qiyuan Miao: Ph.D. Student, Communication Science @ UCLA
• Constance Bainbridge: Ph.D. Student, Communication Science @ UCLA
  Main affiliation: Bryant Lab
• Joyce Yanru Jiang: Ph.D. Student, Communication Science @ UCLA
• Lin Lin: Ph.D. Student, Communication Science @ UCLA
  Main affiliations: Stroessner / Johnson
• Z.P. Rosen: Ph.D. Student, Communication Science @ UCLA

Recent Alumni

• Jenny Roche (advisee), Ph.D. (U. Memphis, Spring, 2011)
  Postdoc, Rochester; Faculty, Kent State University
• Nick Duran (postdoc), Ph.D. (U. Memphis, Spring, 2015)
  Faculty, Arizona State University
• Janelle Szary (co-advisee), Ph.D. (UC Merced, Spring, 2015)
  Postdoc, Indiana University; Data Scientist, pymetrics
• Alexandra Paxton (advisee), Ph.D. (UC Merced, Fall, 2015)
  Postdoc, UC Berkeley; Faculty, UConn
• Drew Abney (collaborator), Ph.D. (UC Merced, Spring, 2016)
  Postdoc, Indiana University; Faculty, U. Georgia
• Till Bergmann (co-advisee), Ph.D. (UC Merced, Spring, 2016)
  Insight Data Fellow, Palo Alta, CA; Data Scientist, SalesForceIQ
• David Vinson (advisee), Ph.D. (UC Merced, Fall, 2017)
  Former IBM Ph.D. Fellow; AI Researcher, Accenture
• Maryam Tabatabaeian (advisee), Ph.D. (UC Merced, Spring, 2017)
  Insight Data Fellow, Palo Alta, CA; Data Scientist, Cisco
• Alexia Galati (postdoc), Ph.D. (UC Merced, Spring, 2018)
  Faculty, UNCC
• Camila Alviar (co-advisee), Ph.D. (UC Merced, Spring, 2021)
  Postdoc, Vanderbilt
• Pablo Contreras Kallens (co-advisee), Ph.D. (Cornell University, Spring 2023)
  Postdoc, Saarland University

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