Mark Ho

@mark_ho_

computational cog sci • problem solving and social cognition • asst prof @NYUPsych • markkho.bsky.social

New York City, New York

codec-lab.github.io

Joined July 2018

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Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
May 20, 2022
1/ I'm excited to share our new paper, now in @Nature! Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… PDF: rdcu.be/cNVkp Summary 🧵: We present a new theory of problem simplification to answer an old question in cognitive science and AI: How do we represent problems when planning?
People construct simplified mental representations to plan
From nature.com
Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
Jun 17
How do human minds make sense of big, messy problems? 😵‍💫🌀 How do we distill complexity into something simple enough to solve? 🤔💡 We’ll be tackling these questions (and more!) at two workshops on task representations, abstractions, and construals #CogSci2026 #CCN2026 🧵
Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
Feb 12
just got my copy!
Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab
@cocosci_lab
Feb 9
New book The Laws of Thought is out tomorrow! Just as Algorithms to Live By introduced ideas from computer science through their applications in everyday life, the Laws of Thought introduces ideas from cognitive science and AI through the stories of the people who created them.
Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
Nov 13, 2025
🚀 Excited to share a new preprint, accepted as a spotlight at #NeurIPS2025! Humans are imperfect decision-makers, and autonomous systems should understand how we deviate from idealized rationality Our paper aims to address this! 👀🧠✨ arxiv.org/abs/2510.25951 a 🧵⤵️
Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
Oct 21, 2025
I was a faculty fellow not to long ago. It's a great opportunity especially for computational cog sci folks!
Ilia Sucholutsky
@sucholutsky
Oct 21, 2025
📢 One more position I'm excited to help recruit for! NYU CDS is hiring it's next cohort of Faculty Fellows, can't stress enough how great of an opportunity these positions are! 💯 Link in thread 👇