Laura Gwilliams

Laura Gwilliams is an Assistant Professor of Psychology with courtesy appointments in Linguistics at Stanford University. She holds affiliations with the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Stanford Data Science, directing the Koret Human Neurosciences Community Laboratory and co-directing the Center for Neural Data Science.

• Research Interests
• Neural mechanisms of speech comprehension
• Computational linguistics and brain imaging
• Integrating neuroscience, linguistics, and machine learning

Her groundbreaking work employs MEG, ECoG, and Neuropixels technologies to study pitch perception, semantic processing, and syntactic representation dynamics.

• 2025 - Neuroscience Fellowship, Klingenstein Philanthropies
• 2024 - Early Career Award, Whitehall Foundation
• 2021 - Glushko Dissertation Prize, Cognitive Science Society

Dr. Gwilliams teaches courses in data science for neuroscience and language neuroscience seminars, while supervising graduate research projects. Her laboratory develops innovative methodologies for analyzing temporally-resolved brain responses to speech stimuli.