Fernand Gobet
Fernand Gobet is the leader of the GEMS project. He earned in PhD in 1992 at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. After collaborating with Nobel laureate Herbert Simon for six years at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, he was lecturer and then reader at the University of Nottingham. He then held professorships at Brunel University London and the University of Liverpool. His research interests include the psychology of expertise and talent, scientific discovery, computational modelling and the acquisition of language. His research has combined experimental methods, philosophical analysis, brain imaging, computational modelling and qualitative methods. He is the main architect behind the CHREST (Chunk Hierarchy and REtrieval STructures) cognitive architecture. Along with other books on expertise, computational modelling and cognitive psychology, he is the author ofUnderstanding expertise: A multi-disciplinary approach (2016, Palgrave/Macmillan) and The psychology of chess (2018, Routledge), and co-editor of Scientific Discovery in the Social Sciences (2019, Springer)
Email: F.Gobet@lse.ac.uk
Laura Barlett
Laura Bartlett is a postdoctoral researcher in the GEMS project. She recently completed her PhD investigating the effects of attention on sensory adaptation, supervised by Professor Wendy Adams and Dr Erich Graf at the University of Southampton. Her research interests include visual and haptic perception, adaptation and attention.
Email: L.Bartlett@lse.ac.uk
Dmitry Bennett
Dmitry Bennett is a postdoctoral researcher in the GEMS project. He will be developing computational models of categorisation by merging basic mechanisms and processes of cognitive psychology with the genetic/evolutionary approach.
Dmitry earned his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2022 under the supervision of Fernand Gobet and Julian Pine. His research interests span Single Algorithm Hypothesis in context of the brain, psychologically plausible models of concept learning and modelling subjectivity in human simulations. His current focus is on the interaction of genetic and cognitive/neural algorithms.
email: D.Bennett5@lse.ac.uk
Nomad Javed
Noman Javed is a Research Officer in the GEMS project. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Orleans (France), working with Prof Frederic Loulergue in the area of Parallel Computing. He then completed a postdoc at the University of Edinburgh (UK), working with Prof Murray Cole in the area of automatic parallelization of legacy code. He then joined Namal Institute Mianwali, Pakistan as Assistant Professor of Computer Science. His research interests include evolutionary computing and making it computationally feasible using parallel computing.
Email: n.javed3@lse.ac.uk
