Events
From talks and seminars to workshops and collaborative gatherings, our events bring together researchers, fellows, and alumni working at the intersection of science and engineering to improve human lives at a global scale. Explore upcoming events below, and check back often as new sessions are added throughout the year.
Yang Tan Collective Alumni Talk Series
Launching a new tradition: hearing directly from the people who’ve walked this path before.
The Yang Tan Collective Alumni Talk Series brings former Collective members back to MIT to discuss their current research.
Noga Zaslavsky, Assistant Professor of Psychology, New York University
Meaning in mind: Lossy compression in children, bilinguals, and LLMs
Date: Monday, September 28th, 2026
Time: 3-4pm
Location: McGovern Seminar Room 46-3189
Bio: Noga Zaslavsky is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University and an affiliated faculty member at NYU’s Centers for Data Science and Neural Science. Her research integrates information theory, machine learning, and cognitive science to study the computational principles underlying language, learning, and reasoning in humans and AI. She holds a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience from the Hebrew University, and was a visiting graduate student at UC Berkeley, a Yang Tan Collective ICoN Postdoctoral Fellow in the Levy Lab, Fedorenko Lab and Yang Lab at MIT from 2022 through 2023, and served on the faculty of UC Irvine before joining NYU. Zaslavsky was named a 2026 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science and her work has been recognized with several awards, including a James S. McDonnell Foundation Understanding Human Cognition Award, two computational modeling awards from the Cognitive Science Society (in 2018 and 2026), and the NeurIPS 2025 Cognitive Interpretability Workshop Best Paper Award.
