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Dr. Fred Callaway is a computational cognitive scientist currently serving as a postdoctoral researcher at New York University and Harvard University, with prior academic training at Princeton University (PhD) and Cornell University (BA). Starting Fall 2026, he will join Dartmouth College as an Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Science Program, where he will establish a research group focused on understanding human cognition through computational models.
His research examines how human cognitive processes emerge from interactions between environmental structure and internal computational constraints. Key contributions include developing metalevel Markov decision process models to explain attentional control, memory systems, and planning mechanisms. His work combines Bayesian modeling, process-tracing methods, and cross-domain empirical validation.
- PhD in Psychology, Princeton University (Advisor: Thomas Griffiths)
- B.A. in Psychology and Linguistics, Cornell University (Advisor: Shimon Edelman)
- Affiliated with NYU and Harvard (2024-2026)
Recent publications analyze optimal information sampling, hierarchical planning biases, and metacognitive strategy selection. He is actively recruiting graduate students for his Dartmouth lab, focusing on computational approaches to cognition and decision-making under bounded rationality.
