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Noah Goodman
Humans&Co-founder
Stanford UniversityProfessor of Psychology and of Computer Science
Goodman is known for formal models of human cognition, especially probabilistic approaches to language, learning, and reasoning. His research helped establish probabilistic programming as a way to express cognitive models[1] and has influenced work on how AI systems can represent uncertainty, infer intent, and reason about other agents.
Career & education
Current rolesHumans&2026-presentCo-founderStanford University2024-presentProfessor of Psychology and of Computer Science
Humans&2026-presentStanford University2024-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2024-2025Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2024-2025Work 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.
citations63,995As of Oct 22, '26
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References
- Noah Goodman’s Stanford research pageweb.stanford.edu
Goodman describes his work connecting probabilistic programming with models of human learning and reasoning.
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