Stefan Uddenberg
Assistant Professor Of Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolStefan Uddenberg is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies how perception and memory construct our visual world, with a particular expertise in face perception. He trained at Yale (PhD) and completed postdoctoral work at Princeton and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, developing experimental techniques that reveal the unconscious assumptions shaping what we see. His lab leverages creative methods like serial reproduction ("Broken Telephone") and novel tools for manipulating hyper-realistic faces to increase ecological validity and scalability in perception research. With an interdisciplinary background in cognitive science, Japanese studies, and early lab management at Dartmouth, he blends rigorous experimental design, computational thinking, and attention to real-world variability. An underappreciated strength is his focus on uncovering the mind’s default generative models—showing perception as an active inference process rather than passive reception.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese School (Level 5), Japanese Language and Literature, A, Japanese School (Level 5), Japanese Language and Literature, A at Middlebury CollegeB.A., Cognitive Science, Japanese Studies, Magna Cum Laude, B.A., Cognitive Science, Japanese Studies, Magna Cum Laude at Dartmouth CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Psychology at Yale University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (165)
experimental-design10
jshint10
experiment10
linguistics10
hydrogen10
psychology10
editor9
code-snippets9
electrophysiology9
vector-graphics9
philosophy9
science9
python9
visual-studio9
jspsych9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stefanuddenberg/Princetonpy-Jupyter-Workshop
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 5 pushes in 1 month
stefanuddenberg/starter-academic
Sep 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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