haley keglovits cognitive science researcher and teacher

curriculum vitae [pdf version]

employment

Psychology Department College Fellow

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | 2025 - present

education

Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Science

Brown University, Providence, RI | August 2019 - June 2025

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA | August 2015 - May 2019

publications

* Indicates Co-First Author

Keglovits, H., Zielinski, R., Bhandari, A., & Badre, D. (2025). Task context is broadly encoded in the human brain. bioRxiv preprint, under review

Bhandari, A.*, Keglovits, H.*, Buyukyazgan, D., & Badre, D. (2025). Task structure tailors the geometry of neural representations in human lateral prefrontal cortex. eLife, 14:RP107356

Yoo, A.H., Keglovits, H., & Collins, A.G.E. (2023). Lowered inter-stimulus discriminability hurts incremental contributions to learning. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 23(5), 1346-1364

Badre, D., Bhandari, A., Keglovits, H., & Kikumoto, A. (2021). The dimensionality of neural representations for control. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 38, 20–28

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

conference posters and talks

Trainees indicated with underline in presentations

Keglovits, H. (2026). Integrating LLM-Generated Interactive Demos into Psychology Courses. Society for Teaching Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching. Poster, St. Louis, MO.

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.

Palsamudram, T., Keglovits, H., Badre, D. (2025). How Does Task Structure Impact Metacognitive Judgment? Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2025. 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 2024. 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

Quantifying Student Engagement with Online Lecture Content

CIRTL Network Teaching-as-Research Presentations | April 2025

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

teaching

Instructor

Introduction to Statistics for Behavioral Sciences | Harvard University | Spring 2026

Supervised team of five graduate teaching assistants.

Instructor

The Psychology of Large Language Models | Harvard University | Spring 2026

Instructor

The Brain's Conductor: Psychology of Focus, Flexibility, and Control | Harvard University | Fall 2025 & 2026

Instructor

AI Bootcamp for College Faculty | The Coding School, Virtual Instruction | Fall 2024

Month-long intensive for community college, HBCU & MSI faculty on AI and machine learning. Previously: Teaching Assistant, 2023-2024.

Instructor

AI Professional Development Program for High School Educators | The Coding School, Virtual Instruction | Summer 2024

Two-week professional development program on machine learning pedagogy.

Lab Instructor

Introduction to AI | The Coding School, Virtual Instruction | 2023-2024

Year-long course on AI for high school students.

Instructor

Camp Code: Learn to think Like a Programmer | Brown University, Pre-College Program | Summer 2023

Supervised two graduate teaching assistants. [Syllabus]

Instructor

Introduction to Programming | Brown University | Spring 2022

Teaching Assistant

Mind, Brain, Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Approach | Brown University | Summer 2021 & Fall 2021

Teaching Assistant

Happiness in Philosophy and Psychology | Brown University | Spring 2021

professional development

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

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

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 | Spring 2023

Inclusive Teaching Seminar | Fall 2022

Mentoring to Make a Difference

Learning Intensive, Brown University | February 2025

Conferences

Ivy+ Teaching Transformations Summit | 2024 & 2025

Teaching at Teaching Intensive Institutions | 2022, 2023, & 2024
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service and leadership

Departmental Service | Brown University

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

2023-2024

Elected graduate student representative to faculty committee discussing curriculum, honors requirements, and departmental programs.

Diversity and Inclusion Reading Group

2021-2025

Founded yearly reading and discussion series on racism and discrimination in psychology.

Diversity and Inclusion Liaison

2021-2022

Elected departmental representative to present diversity and inclusion related issues to faculty and run relevant whole-department trainings.

Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan Committee

2020-2025

Served on Curriculum Subcommittee to improve pedagogy through initiatives including directed reading groups and workshops.

Graduate Representative

2020-2021

Elected representative of graduate student body to organize town hall meetings and professional development seminars, as well as bring student concerns to faculty.

Careers Outside Academia Series

2020-2021

Hosted talk series open to undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs featuring department alumni who pursued careers outside of academia.


Community Outreach

College Day at Brown

2023, 2024, & 2025

Proposed, organized, and lead neuroscience activities for local high school students. [Article]

Brown Brain Fair

2023, 2024, & 2025

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

Elementary School Visitations

2023

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

Brown University Ambassador at Leadership Alliance National Symposium

2022

Attended conference to present information on Brown University graduate programs.

Graduate Training Outreach Panel

2021

Organized 100+ attendee virtual panel about graduate training, targeted at and advertised to students from schools underrepresented in Psychology PhDs.

honors and funding

Student Mentorship Award, Psychology Department

Harvard University | 2026

CIRTL Scholar Recognition

Brown University | 2025
Previously awarded Associate and Practitioner.

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

Academic Honor Roll

University of California, Berkeley | 2015 - 2017

Dean's List

University of California, Berkeley | 2015 - 2016

mentorship

Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Program Mentor

Harvard University | 2025

Mentored three students from economically or resource disadvantaged backgrounds on their applications to graduate school.

Senior Honors Thesis Mentor

Brown University

  • Tanvi Palsamudram (Neuroscience, 2025) - Metacognitive Judgments as Predictors of Learning Proficiency in Cognitive Control Task Instruction
  • Roshan Parikh (Applied Mathematics, 2024) - Neural Connectivity as a Tool for Decoding Analyses
  • Elizabeth Doss (Neuroscience, 2024) - Evaluating RETROICOR & aCompCor-based denoising for improving multi-voxel pattern analysis
  • Camille Aquino (Cognitive Neuroscience, 2024) - Analyzing differences in hippocampal-prefrontal cortex functional connectivity as a function of cognitive control task structure

Badre Lab Research Mentor

Brown University | 2019 - 2025

Mentored 10 undergraduate students in behavioral research practice, fMRI collection, data analysis, and professional development. Six students funded through Brown’s competitive Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award program.

International Student Orientation Peer Mentor

Brown University | 2021-2024

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