Katie Collins (@katie_m

Katie Collins

676 posts

Katie Collins

@katie_m_collins

Postdoctoral Research Fellow @MITCoCoSci @cocosci_lab @CHIA_Cambridge | Prev, PhD @CambridgeMLG

Joined June 2020

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Katie Collins
@katie_m_collins
Jul 17
Games have long served as a testing ground for understanding problem-solving and strategic reasoning in humans and machines, across many fields – from AI, to cognitive science, economics, and more. Yet, in life people are regularly faced not just with repeated instances of the
Katie Collins
@katie_m_collins
Jul 17
It was a joy + honor to talk with Nick and the @Nature podcast team about our new work "People use fast and flat simulation to reason about new games"! Chat starts at min 10:59!
nature
@Nature
Jul 16
Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 ‘Holy grail’ of naked mole-rat research reveals how queens rule go.nature.com/4waz9nO
Katie Collins
@katie_m_collins
Jul 17
So fun to work with @ced_zhang , an outstanding game thinker and thought partner!, on this (and more!)
Ced Zhang
@ced_zhang
Jul 17
Our paper on novel game reasoning is out in @Nature! Games occupy a special place in the science of intelligence. While most prior work has focused on acquiring expertise in games, here we study how people can flexibly reason about games that they have never seen before. Across
Katie Collins
@katie_m_collins
Apr 1
Many joys of life involve not only working on problems alone, but engaging with thought partners. Not just in single interactions, but potentially many -- and many years. How can we understand, model, and proactively build for truly meaningful long-term thought partnerships?
Katie Collins
@katie_m_collins
Nov 19, 2025
Reminder to please consider filling out our brief 5-10 min survey about AI tool use, if interested/working in math formalization! Thanks!
Ilia Sucholutsky
@sucholutsky
Oct 27, 2025
If you're a mathematician or involved in math formalization, please help us out with our study on AI + math formalization by filling out our quick survey!

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