Hyowon Gweon

Hyowon Gweon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. As the leader of the Social Learning Lab, her research focuses on how humans learn from others and help others learn, employing interdisciplinary methods including developmental, computational, and neuroimaging approaches. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from MIT (2012) and joined Stanford in 2014 after a postdoc at MIT.

Her research interests span computational approaches to social learning, developmental psychology, neuroimaging, and education. She has received notable awards such as the APS Janet Spence Award (2020), James S. McDonnell Scholar Award (2018), and Marr Prize (2010). Her work explores topics like counterfactual reasoning, social cognition in infants, and embodied AI benchmarks.

• Labs/Teams: Social Learning Lab
• Key Themes: Prosocial behavior, theory of mind, cognitive development, and human-AI interaction.

Her recent articles investigate infant gaze behavior, temporal reasoning in children, and strategic communication in preschoolers. Grants and advising details are not explicitly listed in the provided text.