Scholar
Thomas Hills
Google Scholar ID: PXgw3lUAAAAJ
Professor
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,028
H-index
39
i10-index
78
Publications
20
Co-authors
10
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: Cognitive Search: Evolution Algorithms and the Brain (MIT Press), Behavioral Network Science: Language, Mind, and Society (Cambridge University Press). Recent publications include articles on debiasing LLMs, cognitive network enrichment, age-related diversification and specialization in the mental lexicon, and an entropy modulation theory of creative exploration.
Research Experience
- Director of the Behavioural and Data Science MSc. Former PhD students Eugene Malthouse and Charlie Pilgrim help run the Collective Decision Making and Culture Lab with collaborators from over 30 nations.
Background
- Interests: I study search behaviour and the trade-off between exploration and exploitation across domains as diverse as space, mind, and society. This work aims to understand how humans navigate complex information environments (e.g., memory, decision making, and creativity) and how these environments evolve and develop in response. My research uses experiments, big data, network science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and mathematical models, with applications to behavioural and cognitive science.
Miscellany
- Some fun articles for the casual reader: Does my algorithm have a mental health problem, published in Aeon; Masters of reality: The evolution of shamanism, published in Aeon; The Macroscope for exploring the historical structure of English; A checklist for scientific writing.
