Marten van Schijndel

Marten van Schijndel is an Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at Cornell University. His research centers on the incremental representations that humans use to process language and the differences between how language is used and how it is processed. He studies these topics by examining relationships between computational language models and psycholinguistic data (such as reading times) and by investigating what aspects of language can be learned from linguistic statistics alone. He directs the Computational Psycholinguistics Discussions research group (C.Psyd) and is affiliated with the Cornell Computational Linguistics Lab (CLab) and Cornell Natural Language Processing Group. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University in 2017 and completed a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University before joining Cornell in 2019. His work bridges computational modeling and human language processing to understand the cognitive mechanisms underlying linguistic comprehension.