Desmond Ong
Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin
United States
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Top SchoolDesmond Ong is an assistant professor and researcher with 12 years of experience at the intersection of psychology and artificial intelligence, focused on building human-centric AI that better understands people. He trained at Stanford (PhD in Psychology; MS in Computer Science) and holds a dual BA in Economics and Physics from Cornell, giving him a rare multidisciplinary perspective across social science, computation, and quantitative modeling. His academic appointments at NUS and UT Austin, plus research roles at A*STAR, reflect a track record of translating cognitive science insights into AI systems and human-centered experiments. Notably, his work blends rigorous theory with applied machine learning methods to probe how models represent and predict human behavior—bridging lab-based psychology and deployed AI.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics; Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics; Physics at Cornell UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Psychology at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
jekyll5
modeling4
codebase3
r-package1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
desmond-ong/pplAffComp
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:95 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
desmond-ong/affCog
Oct 2014 - Dec 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 14 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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