Prof. Jennifer Hu is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, where she directs the Group for Language and Intelligence. Her work aims to understand the computational principles that underlie human language, and how language and cognition might be achieved by artificial models. She approaches these questions by combining cognitive science and machine learning, with the dual goals of understanding the human mind and safely advancing artificial intelligence.

Previously, Hu was a Research Fellow at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and her B.A. in Mathematics and Linguistics at Harvard.