Joshua Hartshorne
Assistant Professor at Boston College
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Hartshorne is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Boston College who studies language acquisition using large-scale web experiments and computational modeling. He pioneered an online laboratory (gameswithwords.org) to scale behavioral studies across many languages and millions of stimuli, addressing questions infeasible in traditional lab settings. With a Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard and postdoctoral training at MIT in computational cognitive science, he combines eye-tracking, EEG, syntactic priming, and modeling to probe how children and adults learn and represent language. He is active in science outreach—writing for blogs, Twitter, and mainstream outlets—and brings a mathematician’s rigor from an Oberlin BA to designing experiments that exploit emerging technologies to answer previously unanswerable questions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology at Harvard UniversityBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Oberlin College
English, Russian, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (78)
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probabilistic-programming9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pushkin-consortium/pushkin-cli
Apr 2019 - Sep 2023
A CLI designed to facilitate the setup process of a Pushkin stack
Contributions:7 reviews, 57 PRs, 120 pushes in 4 years 6 months
cli
pushkin-consortium/pushkin-worker
Apr 2019 - Jul 2023
A basic starter worker used to communicate between a Pushkin API and databases
Contributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 years 3 months
communicateapiworkerdatabases
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