Summary
Bria Long is an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego and founder of the Visual Learning Lab, with 11 years of experience investigating how humans and machines derive object meaning from visual experience. Her work blends behavioral experiments with computational modeling across infants, children, and adults to probe category learning, everyday visual environments, and the role of physical interaction in shaping object representations. She takes an ecological perspective—analyzing infants’ real-world visual input and longitudinal changes in children's drawings—to bridge lab-based theory and naturalistic development. Trained at Harvard (PhD) and ENS (M.S.), and formerly a postdoc at Stanford’s Language and Cognition Lab, she brings deep interdisciplinary grounding in vision science and developmental psychology.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Cognitive Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Cognitive Science at Ecole normale supérieure
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Psychology at Harvard University
Stanford University