About
I'm a a W3 (tenured) Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt and PI of the Human and Machine Cognition Lab. The lab is currently in the process of moving from our previous home at the University of Tübingen to Darmstadt.
Previously, I was a Postdoc at Harvard University working jointly with Fiery Cushman and Sam Gershman, and before that I completed a PhD at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.
My research is primarily concerned with understanding how people learn under uncertainty. Whereas optimal solutions are generally unobtainable in real-world environments, humans are able to learn with unrivaled robustness and efficiency. How do people take overwhelmingly rich and complex problems and transform them into compressed representations that facilitate rapid inference and generalization?
My work uses a combination of statistical and machine learning models to uncover the computational principles behind human learning and inference. I also often use biologically inspired multi-agent systems for studying social learning and collective intelligence. My work has so far focused on two main branches of learning: efficient exploration guided by generalization, and learning from others in a social environment.
Open positions
Supported by a LOEWE Start Professorship and an ERC Starting grant "C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture", I are currently seeking to fill the following positions:
- Fully-funded PhD position on cultural evolution (4 years at 75% E13; upgradable to 100% after 3 months) [job ad]
Contact
Email : - charley.wu[at]tu-darmstadt[dot]de
Charley M. Wu
TU Darmstadt, Department of Human Sciences, Landwehrstraße 50A, 64293 Darmstadt