Seth Frey (“fry”)

Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive Science and Informatics, Indiana University

290B Psychology Building, 1101 E. 10^th St, Bloomington, IN 47405

— sethfrey@indiana.edu —— 812 567 3674 —— http://enfascination.com/ —

 

Education

2008-Present     Indiana University, Bloomington

Ph.D. Candidate in Cognitive Science and Informatics

Mentors: Robert Goldstone, Peter Todd, Randall Beer, Jerome Busemeyer, Elinor Ostrom

2000-2004     University of California, Berkeley

B.A. in Cognitive Science (Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology)

Research Experience/Training

starting in 2013 Postdoc, Disney Research, Zurich, Switzerland

2009-2013 Student, Robert L. Goldstone, Percepts and Concepts Lab, IU

2010-2012 Trainee, NSF/IGERT in the Dynamics of Brain-Body-Environment Systems, IU

2010-2012 Student, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, IU

2012 Student, Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe, NM, USA

2012 Guest, Yuzuru Sato, RIES Complex Systems Group, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

2011 Guest, Tatsuya Kameda, Social Psychology Lab, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

2009 Student, Elinor Ostrom & Michael McGinnis, Institutional Analysis and Design, Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, IU

2008 Student, Randall Beer, Beer Lab, Cognitive Science, IU

2006-2008 Student fellow, Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)

2002-2006 RA, Exploratory stints with Profs. William Prinzmetal Jr. (psychophysics; UC Berkeley), Kimmen Sjolander (phylogenomics; UC Berkeley), Marc Hauser (primate work; Harvard University), Mitch Resnick (fabrication; MIT Media Lab), and Yaneer Bar-Yam (complex systems; NECSI).

Peer-reviewed Publications

Frey, S., & Goldstone, R. (in review). “Flocking in strategic social cognition: Experiment and model.” Available at http://cl.ly/3w1k3p3q2M44

Frey, S. (in review). Reasoning on the agent-environment continuum.

Baghestanian, S., & Frey, S. (in review). GO Figure: Analytic and strategic skills are separable.”

Frey, S., & Goldstone, R. (2013). Cyclic game dynamics driven by iterated reasoning. PLoS ONE 8(2): e56416. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056416 Available at http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056416  

Goldstone, R. L., Wisdom, T. N., Roberts, M. E., Frey, S. (2013). Learning along with others. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation 58. (pp. 1-45) Waltham, MA, USA: Academic Press.

Willer, R., Sharkey, A., Frey, S. (2012) Reciprocity on the Hardwood: Passing Patterns among Professional Basketball Players. PLoS ONE 7(12): e49807. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0049807

Frey, S. (2012). Learning transfer in small group coordination. 2012 Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Available at http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2012/papers/0278/paper0278.pdf

Frey, S., Goldstone, R. L. (2011). Going with the group in a competitive game of iterated reasoning. 2011 Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Available at http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/pdfs/groupgoing2011.pdf

Frey, S., Goldstone, R. L. (2010). Group stratification and coordination failure in a continuous n-player Stag Hunt. 2010 Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Available at http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/pdfs/freycogsci2010.pdf

Ongoing Research

Dissertation: “Coordination and non-equilibrium dynamics in games of iterated reasoning.”

Frey, S. “The journey is the destination: Stable and efficient herd behavior in higher-level reasoning.”

Frey, S., & Goldstone, R. “Group formation with multiple scales of coordination.”

Frey, S. “The cognitive dynamics and literary experience of Shakespeare.” Working paper available at http://f.cl.ly/items/3X2W20462V380j0b0a2b/Frey2012Boothdynamics15.pdf

Presentations

Frey, S., (2012) “What you think I think you think I think” causes cycles and flocking in multi-player Rock-Paper-Scissors. 2012 IGERT PI Meeting, June 1, 2012, Washington, DC, USA.

Cox, G., Frey, S., Dye, M. (2012). The dynamics of sentence (in)comprehension. 2012 Cognitive Science Society.

Dye, M., Cox, G., Frey S. (2012). Bringing detours to consciousness: Priming and comprehension of malapropisms in time. IGEL 2012, July 10, 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada

Frey, S. (2012). How Stephen Booth's fieldwork in Shakespeare informs the dynamics of sentence processing. IGEL 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Frey, S., Dye, M., Cox, G. (2012). Semantic context and the dynamics of sentence incomprehension: How do we miss errors in language? Midwest Cognitive Science Meeting (Midwest CogSci), Bloomington, IN, USA. 

Frey, S., (2012) What you think I think you think I think, and how it leads to cycles and flocking in multi-player roshambo. 3rd IGERT Spring Research Showcase, April 13, 2012, Bloomington, IN, USA.

Frey S. (2011). Co-op living as collective action: Research and practice. NASCO Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Frey, S., Goldstone, R. L. (2011). Group convergence in steps of iterated reasoning. Midwest Cognitive Science Meeting (Midwest CogSci), East Lansing, MI, USA.

Frey S. (2010). The cooperator's Nobel Prize: Institutions and intentional community. NASCO Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Frey S., Goldstone R. L. (2010). Group structure formation in a dynamic coordination game. 2010 INSNA Sunbelt, Trento, Italy.

Frey, S., Goldstone, R. L. (2010). Functional structure and coordination failure in real-time group behavior. NetSci 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Deaton, S., Frey, S. (2009). Investigations of attractor behavior over the decay of modular RBNs. 10th European Conference on Artificial Life. Available at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1005.3510

Frey S. (2009). Multiscale tools for a multiple-level understanding of institutional structure. 2009 Institutional Analysis and Design Miniconference, Bloomington, IN, USA.

Major Grants, Honors, Awards

2012 Indiana Space Grant Consortium (NASA/INSGC) Fellowship, $12,000

2011 NSF EAPSI: Experiments on the Internal Structure of Coordinating Groups, $5000

2011 JSPS Summer Program Fellowship, Hokkaido University, $5000

2010 NSF IGERT in the Dynamics of Brain-Body-Environment Systems, $60,000

2008 Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Fellowship, $30,000

2007 NECSI Advanced Training Program Student Fellowship, $20,000

2006 NECSI Advanced Training Program Student Fellowship, $20,000

Other Grants, Honors, Awards

2012 IU nominee, 2012 National IGERT Trainee Video & Poster Competition

2012 IU 3^rd IGERT Spring Research Showcase, Best Paper award: “What you think I think you think I think, and how it leads to cycles and flocking in multi-player roshambo.”

2012 NSF IGERT Summer Internship Program, $4000

2012 NSF IGERT Summer Travel Award, $1800

2012 NSF Travel Grant & Research Fellowship, $3200

2011 Midwest CogSci Best Student Paper award: “Group convergence in steps of iterated reasoning,” $250

2009 IU Cognitive Science Program Supplemental Research Fellowship, $3000

Invited Talks/Seminars

Multiple methods in collective behavior. Disney Research, Zurich, Switzerland.

Cyclic game dynamics driven by iterated reasoning. Crisis Lab, IMT Lucca, Lucca, Italy; Cognition, Action, & Perception Speaker Series, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA; Meeting on perceiving and conceiving natural and non-natural agents. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Ikegami Lab Summer Workshop, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Wolpert group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA; 2012 NSF IGERT Video & Poster Competition, Washington, DC, USA; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; Behavioral Sciences Group, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Institutional analysis and the varieties of cooperative experience. Fagerstrom Fund and departments of Environmental Studies, Economics, Politics, and Sociology. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA.

Teaching

2008-2013 Supervised student research assistants: Gabriella Gabbard, Jonathan Wickens, Kevin Jian-Hong, Benjamin Marchus, Charlene Tay, Jenna Norden, Peter Bennett

2013 Teaching assistant for Brain and Cognition in Cognitive Science, Dr. Hullinger

2009, 2012 Teaching assistant for Experiments and Models in Cognitive Science, Prof. Goldstone

2011 Prepared materials for course on complex social systems

2010 Teaching assistant for Autonomous Robotics, Prof. Beer

2009-2010 Founder and organizer, IU Cognitive Science Undergraduate Summer of Literature

2006 English teacher, Mah’ed Inglizi, Irbid, Jordan

2005 Co-founder, organizer, and teacher, Jamaica Plain Free School Project, Boston, MA, USA

2005 Substitute teacher, Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA, USA

2003 Designed and administered small undergraduate course, University of California at Berkeley

2001-2004 Designed and administered large undergraduate course, University of California at Berkeley

Academic Service

Journal reviews: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, PLoS ONE

Conference reviews: 2012 Collective Intelligence, Boston, MA, USA; 2012 Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference, Bloomington, IN, USA

Guest Editor, Ostrom Special Issue of Grassroots Economic Organizing.  Available at http://geo.coop/issue/9

Founder and Co-founder: IU Grey Matters graduate discussion group; IU Cognitive Science cuisine club; IU Cognitive Science “Colloquium,” happy hour.

Media/Public Outreach

“Sharing is hard.” TEDxBloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA. May 14, 2011.  Video available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoO2WQMzCm4

Featured on National Affairs blog, Jan 13, 2013.  http://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/quid-pro-quo

Featured on Cosmic Log on NBCnews.com blog, Feb 19, 2013. http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/19/17021375-rock-paper-scissors-imitates-life

Other Activities

2008-2013 Co-Founder and Board of Directors, Bloomington Cooperative Living Inc.

    Grew organization’s membership by 5 times, and its assets from $10,000 to $1 million

2010-2013 Board of Directors, National Association of Students of Cooperation (NASCO) Development Services

2008-2010 Solved puzzles for pay, IU Lilly Library Conservation and Slocum Puzzle Collection

2006-2008 Lead developer, Worldhall distributed decision-making system, NECSI