Irmak Ergin

I am a PhD candidate in Psychology, advised by Prof. Laura Gwilliams.

My research aims to develop a mechanistic explanation of how the brain transforms letters and sounds into meaning. I aim to uncover the dynamic neural computations that support language processing across space and time dimensions. For this, I leverage speech and language models, machine learning methods, and neural data ranging from population-level recordings (MEG, EEG) to single-cell resolution (Utah arrays).

Before Stanford, I completed my MSc in Cognitive Science at the University of Trento and SISSA, Italy, and earned my bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Boğaziçi University, Turkey.