Dr. Michael Jones

Chair, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
W. K. Estes Endowed Chair of Cognitive Modeling
Professor of Cognitive Science
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
​Professor of Neuroscience
Adjunct Professor of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University, Bloomington

Director, IU Cognitive Computing Laboratory
Fellow of the Psychonomic Society (FPsyS)
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Behavior Research Methods

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I am currently a professor at Indiana University. My research is generally in the areas of cognitive modeling, semantic memory, artificial intelligence, and data science. I completed my graduate work at Queen's University in Kingston (Canada) under the late Doug Mewhort, as well as certification in High-Performance Scientific Computing. I then moved on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder under  Walter Kintsch, Mike Mozer, and the late Tom Landauer. In 2006, I traded my sunny mountains for fields of corn, and relocated to Bloomington Indiana. I served as Editor-in-Chief of Behavior Research Methods (the world's top journal for behavioral methodology and statistics) from 2014-2020, and as President of the Society for Computation in Psychology (SCiP) from 2012-2014. For more information about my academic work, see my Lab Page or my Faculty Page. 
 
I'm a single dad with two wonderful daughters, and am an avid backpacker and road-tripper. Besides skiing and volleyball, I am very competitive in boxing, Muay Thai, submission wrestling, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I tried golf once, but don't really get the concept.
 
For more information on research and teaching, use the links on the menu bar at the top. 

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Contact Information:

Mike Jones
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
1101 E. 10th St. 
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, 47405

Phone: (812) 856-1490
Fax: (812) 855-4691
Email: jonesmn@indiana.edu