Scholar
Tessa Verhoef
Google Scholar ID: PyQX978AAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,083
H-index
14
i10-index
16
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- She has published several papers on language evolution and has been involved in multiple research projects, including the development of the NeLLCom framework. She has received funding from SAILS, Leiden University's interfaculty AI program.
Research Experience
- Her doctoral research focused on the evolution of speech. She has also worked on various other domains of language, such as sign language, space-time mappings, and iconicity. She has been a postdoc at the Center for Research in Language, working with Prof. Carol Padden at UC San Diego. Current projects include the emergence of language universals with neural agents, socially embedded AI, neural measures of emerging space-time language, and gendering algorithms.
Education
- She completed her BSc and MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She wrote her MSc thesis at the Affective Social Computing lab at Florida International University. In 2013, she obtained her PhD degree at the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) of the University of Amsterdam, supervised by Prof. Bart de Boer and Prof. Simon Kirby.
Background
- She is an Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) where she leads the Emergent Communication Group and co-founded the Creative Intelligence Lab. Her research interests lie at the intersection of language, cognition, cultural evolution, and computation.
Miscellany
- Her office is in the Gorlaeus Building at Leiden University, room BE 3.08. She can be reached at t.verhoef [at] liacs.leidenuniv [dot] nl. She is also on LinkedIn.
