haley keglovits cognitive science researcher and teacher

curriculum vitae [pdf version]

education

Ph.D. Cognitive Science

Brown University (expected completion May 2025)

B.A. Cognitive Science (honors) & B.A. Computer Science

The University of California, Berkeley (2015-2019)

teaching

AI Bootcamp for College Faculty

Lecture Instructor | Fall 2024

Taught month-long intensive boot camp for community college, HBCU & MSI faculty, leading both part 1 (Introduction to Machine Learning) and part 2 (Applications of AI to Images and Text Data) sessions. Previously: Teaching Assistant for lab sections of both sessions, 2023-2024.

AI Professional Development Program for High School Educators

Lecture Instructor | Summer 2024

Taught two week professional development intensive focused on equipping educators with the necessary knowledge and skills they need to bring machine learning into their classrooms.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Course

Laboratory Instructor | AY 2023-2024

Lead two year-long labs of high school students in the principles of machine learning and artificial intelligence using the python programming language.

Camp Code: Learn to think Like a Programmer

Instructor | Summer 2023

Designed and taught two-week intensive course on introductory computer science principles, covering logical thinking, python syntax, and basic data science principles. Supervised two graduate student teaching assistants. Syllabus: https://haleyk.github.io/assets/campcode23.pdf

Sheridan Teaching Seminar

Teaching Consultant | Fall 2023

Lead semester-long section of workshop on interdisciplinary, inclusive teaching practices and improving personal pedagogy for Brown graduate students and postdocs.

Introduction to Programming

Instructor | Spring 2022

Primary course instructor for departmental introductory programming course (25 students). Lectured three times a week, plus lab-session two hours a week. Oversaw 2 undergraduate teaching assistants.

Mind, Brain and Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Teaching Assistant | Summer 2021 and Fall 2021

Supervised 20 students, taught one weekly discussion section. Fall 2021 taught one invited lecture to full class (300 students).

Happiness in Philosophy and Psychology

Teaching Assistant | Spring 2021

Supervised 40 students, taught two weekly discussion sections.

pedagogy development

Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL)

An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching | Summer 2024

Change Leadership for Inclusive Teaching and Learning | Summer 2024

Brown University Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning

Teaching Consultant Program | Fall 2023

Course Design Seminar (Certificate II) | Spring 2023

Inclusive Teaching Seminar (Certificate I) | Fall 2022

External Conferences

Teaching at Teaching Intensive Institutions Conference | 2022, 2023, 2024

Ivy+ Teaching Transformations Summit | 2024

service and leadership

Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, CLPS Department

Committee Member | Brown University, 2020-Present

Work on Curriculum Subcommittee to assess and improve the curriculum of CLPS Department courses through planning reading groups, syllabi surveys, and workshops on difficult topics in teaching.

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, CLPS Department

Elected Graduate Liason | Brown University, 2023-2024 Academic Year

Elected as departmental graduate student representative to serve on the faculty undergraduate curriculum committee to discuss coursework, honors requirements, curriculum needs, and majors offered by the department.

College Day at Brown

Discipline Activity Organizer | Carney Institute at Brown University, 2023 & 2024

Proposed, organized, and led neuroscience activities for local high school students to encourage them in pursuit of higher education.

Brown Brain Fair

Lab Ambassador | Brown University, 2023 & 2024

Organized activity table to explore brain function with local community members as a part of Brain Waves RI.

Elementary School Field Trips, Carney Institute at Brown University

Activity Leader | 2023

Assisted with two outreach events to engage local elementary school students with psychology and neuroscience activities.

Leadership Alliance National Symposium

Brown University Ambassador | 2022

Presented information on Brown University graduate programs and answered potential student questions.

Diversity and Inclusion Liaison, CLPS Department

Elected Graduate Representative | Brown University, 2021-2022 Academic Year

Elected as departmental representative to bring diversity and inclusion related issues to faculty, and implement departmental trainings and workshops as necessary.

Graduate Outreach Panel, CLPS Department

Organizer | Brown University, Fall 2021

Organized panel to answer questions about graduate training in our department targeted at students from schools that are traditionally underrepresented in our applicant pool. Coordinated program advertisement with advising staff at nationwide universities for successful online event.

Diversity and Inclusion Reading Group, CLPS Department

Organizer | Brown University, 2021-present

Founded and organize yearly three-book reading and discussion series on racism and discrimination in psychology.

International Student Orientation

Peer Mentor | Brown University, 2021-2024

Served as peer mentor to incoming international graduate students during orientation.

Careers Outside Academia Series, CLPS Department

Organizer | Brown University, 2020-2021 Academic Year

Organized and hosted talk series open to undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs across CLPS and Neuroscience departments featuring alumni who pursued careers outside of traditional academia.

Graduate Representative, CLPS Department

Elected Graduate Student | Brown University, 2020-2021 Academic Year

Elected as one of two departmental representatives of graduate student body. Serve to bring student ideas and concerns to faculty and plan events like town-hall meetings, socials, and professional development seminars.

publications

Bhandari, A., Keglovits, H., & Badre, D. (2024). Task structure tailors the geometry of neural representations in human lateral prefrontal cortex. BioRXiv, under review. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.06.583429 PDF

Yoo, A. H., Keglovits, H., & Collins, A. (2023). Lowered inter-stimulus discriminability hurts incremental contributions to learning. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 23(5), 1346-1364. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01104-5 PDF

Badre, D., Bhandari, A., Keglovits, H., & Kikumoto, A. (2021). The dimensionality of neural representations for control. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 38, 20–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.07.002 PDF

Galeano Weber, E. M., Keglovits, H., Fisher, A., & Bunge, S. A. (2020). Insights into visual working memory precision at the feature- and object-level from a hemispheric encoding manipulation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(11), 1949–1968. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820934990 PDF

conference posters and talks

Palsamudram, T., Keglovits, H., & Badre, D. (2025). How Does Task Structure Impact Metacognitive Judgment? Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Poster, Boston, MA.

Keglovits, H., Zielinski, R., Bhandari, A., & Badre, D. (2025). The functional organization of task-tailored neural representations for control in human neocortex. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Poster, Boston, MA.

Doss, E., Keglovits, H., Bhandari, A., Badre, D. (2024). Evaluating RETROICOR & aCompCor-based denoising for improving multi-voxel pattern analysis. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Poster, Toronto, Canada.

Buyukyazgan, D., Bhandari, A., Keglovits, H., Badre, D. (2023). Practice-related effects of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex representational geometry on context-dependent behavior. Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Poster, Washington DC.

Keglovits, H., Bhandari, A., Chicklis, E., & Badre, D. (2023). Task structure shapes the geometry of control representations in PFC. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Poster, San Francisco, CA.

Keglovits, H., Bhandari, A., Chicklis, E., & Badre, D. (2022). The relationship between task demands and the dimensionality of control representations. Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Nanosymposium Talk, San Diego, CA.

Keglovits, H., Bhandari, A., Chicklis, E., & Badre, D. (2021). Evaluating methods for estimating geometry of neural representations. Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome. Poster, Virtual.

Keglovits, H. (2020). Estimating Dimensionality of Neural Firing. Brown Unconference. Talk, Brown University.

Keglovits, H. & Collins, A.G.E. (2019). Effects of stimulus linguistic and visual confusability on learning. California Cognitive Science Conference. Poster, Berkeley CA.

Keglovits, H. & Collins, A.G.E. (2018). Computational Modeling of Reinforcement Learning and Working Memory Systems. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Conference. Talk, Berkeley CA.

invited talks and panels

Research at Brown Panel

Girls Who Code Brown College Loop | April 2024

Graduate School Information Panel

Brown University Departmental Undergraduate Group | November 2023

Multitasking: Facts and Fictions

Brown Brain Fair | March 2023

Task structure shapes the geometry of control representations in PFC

Brown MRI Research Facility Users Meeting | March 2023

Getting Into Research

Brown University Departmental Undergraduate Group | November 2022

Evaluating methods for measuring geometry of neural representations

Brown CLPS First-Year Project Series | January 2021

Introduction to Psychopy for fMRI

Brown MRI Research Facility Users Meeting | March 2020

Graduate School Panel

Brown University CareerLAB | October 2019

honors and funding

Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching

Brown University | 2023 | Article

NIH Interdisciplinary Training in Computational, Cognitive, and Systems Neuroscience T32

Brown University | 2021-2023

Graduate School Summer Fellowship

Brown University | 2020

Betty R.H. and James M. Pickett Fellowship Fund for Psychology

Brown University | 2019-2020

Highest Honors in Cognitive Science

University of California, Berkeley | 2019

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

University of California, Berkeley | 2018

Dean`s List

University of California, Berkeley | 2015 - 2016

Academic Honor Roll

University of California, Berkeley | 2015 - 2017

student mentorship

Brown University: supervise and train undergraduate students in research practice, coding, and data analysis. Selected projects and achievements highlighted below. UTRA: Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award, competitive funding from Brown University for full time (summer) or part time (fall/spring) research pursuit.

Tanvi Palsamudram | 2021-present

Awarded UTRA Fall 2023 and Summer 2024; Currently completing Honors Thesis in Neuroscience: "Metacognitive Judgments as Predictors of Learning Proficiency in Cognitive Control Task Instruction"

Elizabeth Doss | 2021-2024

Research project on improving fMRI methods using physiological signal; Presented first author poster at international discipline conference; Awarded UTRA Summer 2022; Current: Medical Student at Brown University

Roshan Parikh | 2021-2024

Awarded UTRA Summer 2022; Completed Honors Thesis in Applied Mathematics: "Neural Connectivity as a Tool for Decoding Analyses"; Current: Data Science Masters Student at Brown University

Camille Aquino | 2021-2024

Awarded UTRA Summer 2022; Completed Honors Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience: "Analyzing differences in hippocampal-prefrontal cortex functional connectivity as a function of cognitive control task structure"; Current: Medical Assistant

Shuah (Shay) Yu | 2022-2023

Research project on measuring neural representations of cognitive control with fMRI; Current: Medical Student at Brown University

Emily Smith-Feldman | 2019-2021

Research project on working memory input gating; Awarded UTRA Summer 2020; Current: Masters Student at University of Denver