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Joshua B. Tenenbaum
MITWhitehead Professor of Computational Cognitive Science
Tenenbaum is a professor of computational cognitive science at MIT, where his lab studies how humans learn so much from so little using probabilistic and Bayesian program-induction models. His work on intuitive physics, concept learning, and the "child as scientist" has been deeply influential across cognitive science and AI.
Career & education
Current role
Whitehead Professor of Computational Cognitive Science
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations163,102As of Nov 1, '26
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