George Kachergis
Senior Research Scientist at Skillprint
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Kachergis is a senior research scientist blending 12+ years of cognitive science and AI experience to build computational models of memory, learning, and categorization that inform both theory and practical algorithms. Currently splitting time between Stanford and Skillprint, he combines Bayesian and frequentist methods, semantic-space models, and extensive programming (R, Python, Java, C++, Matlab) to turn behavioral experiments and text-mined data into reproducible research. His background spans academia and applied settings—from teaching robots via knowledge representation to designing iPad apps for active learning—giving him a rare fluency in translating lab insights into product-relevant solutions. A published cognitive scientist who still plays Ultimate frisbee, he brings rigorous experimental design and a bias toward generalizable, interpretable models that aim to make AI learn more like people.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, with Honors, High School, with Honors at North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsPh.D., Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology, Ph.D., Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science and Cognitive Studies, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science and Cognitive Studies, Magna Cum Laude at Carleton College
Github Skills (40)
experimental-design10
jspsych10
information-theory10
sbml10
experiment10
science10
psychology10
latent-dirichlet-allocation9
javascript9
browser9
topic-modeling9
vocabulary9
nlp8
mechanical-turk8
cognitive-science8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kachergis/bugguess
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
kachergis/word_learning_models
Dec 2013 - Jun 2019
A collection of cross-situational word learning models and data from my Cognitive Science/Psychology research.
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 5 years 6 months
nlpinformation-theorysciencecognitive-sciencepsychology
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