Haoran Zhao

I am a master's student in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington.

Previously, I was an undergraduate student at Drexel University, where I was fortunately advised by Jake Williams. Before Drexel, I spent two amazing years at Lanzhou University in China, where I very much enjoyed the first two years of my college life.

I also spent some amazing time at the Computation & Cognition Lab and Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford, where I worked with Noah Goodman and Tobias Gerstenberg and got to know a lot of amazing people who shaped my current research focus.

I am interested in social cognition, language and AI. At the moment, I am specifically thinking about Theory of Mind and Pragmatics, trying to study our ability to infer others' mental states and predict others' actions in the context of language and communication, and how well LLMs can do it, if at all. I am currently working with Max Kleiman-Weiner and Robert Hawkins to explore these topics.

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News

• April 2025: Two paper got accepted to CogSci 2025
• April 2025: Got into the CBMM summer school at MIT

Research