Hello there!
I work on the theoretical foundations of cognitive science and AI.
I am an incoming MPhil/PhD student in philosophy at UCL. Before I was an undergrad at the University of Michigan’s Weinberg institute for Cognitive Science, a visiting student at UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences affiliated with the MetaLab, and an AI fellow at the Institute of Philosophy. I spent my first-year in the Cognitive Science MA program at The University of Edinburgh.
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I used to be a Lego MOC designer and speedrunner. Now my free time is mainly occupied by naps, alternative music, and postmodern fiction (list in order of time spent).
Updates
Apr 2026
- Happy to share that my thesis “Metacognition in Language Models” won Sam Epstein Award for Contributions to Theoretical Cognitive Science 🥹
- Both ConservationBench and VBVR are accepted to ICML. See you in Seoul : D
- “Egocentric Bias in Vision-Language Models” is accepted to CogSci
- “Vision-Language Models Mistake Head Orientation for Gaze Direction: Nonverbal Conversation Cues” is accepted to ACL
Feb 2026
- “A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite” is #1 paper of the month on Huggingface!
Dec 2025
- Presenting a short theory piece against the simulation and rendering dichotomy at the SpaVLE workshop @NeurIPS
Nov 2025
- Talk at the Agentic AI workshop, hosted by CASIP, PAIR @FAU, & NEU London
- Attending the Eleos Conference, presenting a new work on assessing perceptual metacognition in VLM
Oct 2025
- Talk at Models of Consciousness
- Jane and Martin are presenting our work “Vision-Language Models Are Not Pragmatically Competent in Referring Expression Generation” at COLM!
Aug 2025
- Presenting a new work with Yage at CogSci on an experienced-first approach to autistic pragmatics
July 2025
- TA’ing for the Cognitive Neuroscience course at X Academy (3rd round!), presenting a workshop on consciousness
- Hosting a career panel at ASSC
- William is presenting our work “Core Knowledge Deficits in Multi-Modal Language Models” at ICML!
June 2025
- Attending the Evaluating Artificial Consciousness workshop at RUB
- Talk at the Institute of Philosophy
May 2025
- Talk at the International Conference on Large-scale AI Risks in Leuven
- Talk x2 at SPAN
Dezhi Luo 