Marianne de Heer Kloots

Marianne de Heer Kloots is a computational linguist and cognitive scientist who is interested in studying and using artificial intelligence technologies to better understand human and non-human minds and languages. She completed a BA in Linguistics at Leiden University followed by an MSc in Brain & Cognitive Sciences at University of Amsterdam, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam. Marianne’s PhD research computationally explores the inner workings of deep neural networks for audio and text processing, as well as their use in modelling human cognitive signals. Previously, Marianne has run experiments to study human artificial language learning, as well as data-driven bioacoustic analyses to study the structure and timing of grey seal pup vocalizations when housed in groups.

October 2023