Students

Dissertation committees as Chair or Co-Chair

Graduated

Guillaume Massas - 2023 PhD in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley (co-Chaired with Paolo Mancosu). First positions after graduation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa; Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Chapman University, starting August 2025.

Reid Dale - 2022 PhD in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley (co-Chaired with Thomas Scanlon). First positions after graduation: Aarrestad Research Consulting, LLC; Postdoctoral Scholar in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University.

Yifeng Ding - 2021 PhD in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley. Thesis: Propositional Quantification and Comparison in Modal Logic. First position after graduation: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Peking University.

Kentaro Yamamoto - 2020 PhD in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley. Thesis: Duality for Boolean Algebra Expansions and Its Applications.  Positions after graduation: postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Project Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo.

Alex Kocurek - 2018 PhD in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley (co-Chaired with Seth Yalcin). Thesis: What Can You Say? Measuring the Expressive Power of Languages. Positions after graduation: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University; Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

In Progress

Raha Ahmadian - PhD candidate in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley

Ahmee Christensen - PhD candidate in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley

Adam Lesnikowski - PhD student in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley

Dissertation committees as additional member

Graduated

Sven Neth - 2023 PhD in Philosophy, UC Berkeley. Thesis: Non-Ideal Decision Theory. Position after graduation: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.

James Walsh - 2020 PhD in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley. Thesis: Reflection Principles and Ordinal Analysis. Positions after graduation: Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University; Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University.

Russell Buehler - 2019 PhD in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley. Thesis: A Logical Theory of Confirmation. Position after graduation: Visiting Fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.

Ethan Jerzak - 2019 PhD in Philosophy, UC Berkeley. Thesis: Paradox in Thought and Natural Language. Position after graduation: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore.

MA thesis committees as Chair

Graduated

Isabella Carlsson - 2021 MA in Philosophy. Thesis: A Normative Assessment of Reinforcement via MLE-Rationalizability. First position after graduation: policy analyst at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. 

Pen Long - 2020 MA in Mathematics. Thesis: Possibility and Impossibility for Approval-Preference Voting Rules. First position after graduation: software engineer.

Undergraduate research collaborations

Kavin Kumaravel - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major. Joint project: deep reinforcement learning for proof search.

Chase Norman - 2023 B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. Pure Mathematics. Joint projects: "Voting Theory in the Lean Theorem Prover" and "Impossibility theorems involving weakenings of expansion consistency and resoluteness in voting." Positions after graduation: PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Computer Science.

Saam Zahedian - 2021 B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S. in Business Administration, and B.A. in Applied Mathematics. Joint project: "Impossibility theorems involving weakenings of expansion consistency and resoluteness in voting." Positions after graduation: Predoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; PhD student at Northwestern University, Department of Economics

Ham Huang - 2021 B.A. in Psychology, B.A. in Philosophy, and B.A. in Applied Mathematics. Joint project: "Does Amy Know Ben Knows You Know Your Cards? A Computational Model of Higher-Order Epistemic Reasoning." Positions after graduation: Research Coordinator at University of Pennsylvania, Psychology; PhD student at Princeton University, Department of Psychology.

Cedegao Zhang - 2021 B.A. in Cognitive Science and B.A. in Philosophy. Joint project: "When Do Introspection Axioms Matter for Multi-Agent Epistemic Reasoning" and "Does Amy Know Ben Knows You Know Your Cards? A Computational Model of Higher-Order Epistemic Reasoning." Position after graduation: PhD student at MIT Brain and Behavioral Sciences.