About Wilma Bainbridge
Wilma Bainbridge is a recent graduate of Yale University, majoring in Cognitive Science, with the specific concentration of Artificial Intelligence. She is currently doing research as a Visiting Exchange Student at Tokyo University's JSK Robotics Lab under the auspices of Yale's Gordon Grand Fellowship, and the Fox International Fellowship. She will be starting her PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this fall.
Wilma's greatest passion is research in the cognitive sciences. Wilma has worked in a wide variety of laboratories and has several interests. She recently completed her senior project at Brian Scassellati's Social Robotics Laboratory, where her paper on artificial intelligence and online social networking earned her distinction in the Cognitive Science major. She also has worked at Marvin Chun's Visual Neuroscience Laboratory for the past two years doing exciting fMRI research on visual memory. Wilma has extensive experience doing animal research, working under Mortimer Mishkin at the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at the National Institutes of Mental Health for the past two summers, and also working a year at Laurie Santos's Comparative Cognition Laboratory.
Wilma also has a great love of travel, with a focus on Japan. She has lived there for almost two years (one in Kyoto, one in Tokyo), and has made her way around the rest of East Asia and some of Europe.
Note: The photograph used in this header was taken by Wilma spring 2009 during cherry blossom season in Kenrokuen, Kanazawa; heralded as one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan.