J.P. de Ruiter

Dr. J.P. de Ruiter is a Professor in both the Psychology and Computer Science departments at Tufts University. He holds a PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and a Drs (equivalent to MS) from Radboud University. His research focuses on the cognitive foundations of human communication, including how humans and artificial agents use language, gesture, and multimodal signals to communicate. He previously served as Chair of Psycholinguistics at Bielefeld University and founded the Natural Communication HD Lab there.

Research Interests:

• Cognition and Psycholinguistics
• Computational models of conversation
• Artificial Intelligence applications in communication
• Social robotics and intention recognition

Recent work investigates top-down effects of dialogue coherence on speaker identity perception and limitations of Large Language Models in conversational timing. His lab (Human Interaction Lab) explores human-machine interaction through datasets and algorithms enhancing social communication.