Marvin Lavechin

I am currently a Simons postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Psycholinguistics lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, US) under the supervision of Roger Levy and Elika Bergelson. Formerly, at Meta AI, LSCP (Paris, France), and GIPSA (Grenoble, France).

My work is at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sciences. In my interdisciplinary research program, I study language development in infants and machines. In particular, my research articulates along two major axes: 1) developing and democratizing artificial neural networks to automatically analyze children’s language environment and linguistic production (supervised learning) and 2) running human-inspired computer simulations of language development to build more efficient algorithms and identify mechanisms driving language acquisition in infants (unsupervised/self-supervised learning).