Events

CILVR Seminar: Reasoning in Language Models: A View from Linguistic Theory

Speaker: Jackson Petty (NYU)

Location: 60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th Floor Open Space
Videoconference link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96928790385

Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Bio: Jackson is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at New York University. He studies how neural language models learn language, and how that is similar to or different from how humans acquire language. Before coming to NYU, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Yale University; my undergraduate thesis on algebraic generalization in neural networks was advised by Bob Frank as part of the CLAY Lab.