Education
- PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018)
- MSc University of Oxford (2012)
- BS Stanford University (2009)
Expertise
Positions Held
At the University of Washington since 2024
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Common Sense Machines since 2020
Fellow at Harvard University, 2018-2020
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Diffeo (Acquired by Salesforce), 2012-2019
Summer Associate at McKinsey & Company, 2010
Selected Publications
“Most people do not ‘value the struggle’: Tempted agents are judged as less virtuous than those who were never tempted”
McManus, R. M., Fong, H. P., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Young, L., (2024). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 113, pp. 104615.
“Emotion prediction as computation over a generative theory of mind”
Houlihan, S. D., Kleiman-Weiner, M., Hewitt, L. B., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Saxe, R., (2023). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Vol. 381(2251), pp. 20220047.
“Too Many Cooks: Bayesian Inference for Coordinating Multi-Agent Collaboration”
Wu*, S. A., Wang*, R. E., Evans, J. A., Tenenbaum, J. B., Parkes, D. C., & Kleiman-Weiner, M., (2021). Topics in Cognitive Science, Vol. 13(2), pp. 414–432.
“Drivers are blamed more than their automated cars when both make mistakes”
Awad, E., Levine, S., Kleiman-Weiner, M., Dsouza, S., Tenenbaum, J. B., Shariff, A., Bonnefon, J.-F., & Rahwan, I., (2020). Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 4(2), pp. 134–143.
“What we owe to family: The impact of special obligations on moral judgment”
McManus, R. M., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Young, L., (2020). Psychological Science, Vol. 31(3), pp. 227–242.
“The logic of universalization guides moral judgment”
Levine, S., Kleiman-Weiner, M., Schulz, L., Tenenbaum, J., & Cushman, F., (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 117(42), pp. 26158–26169.
“People make the same Bayesian judgment they criticize in others”
Cao, J., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Banaji, M. R., (2019). Psychological Science, Vol. 30(1), pp. 20–31.
“Theory of minds: Understanding behavior in groups through inverse planning”
Shum*, M., Kleiman-Weiner*, M., Littman, M. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B., (2019). Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 33(1), pp. 6163–6170.
“Finding friend and foe in multi-agent games”
Serrino*, J., Kleiman-Weiner*, M., Parkes, D. C., & Tenenbaum, J. B., (2019). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 32.
“Towards formal definitions of blameworthiness, intention, and moral responsibility”
Halpern, J., & Kleiman-Weiner, M., (2018). Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 32(1).
“Learning a commonsense moral theory”
Kleiman-Weiner, M., Saxe, R., & Tenenbaum, J. B., (2017). Cognition.
“Statistically inaccurate and morally unfair judgements via base rate intrusion”
Cao, J., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Banaji, M. R., (2017). Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 1(10), pp. 738–742.
Honors and Awards
Modeling Prize for Higher-Level Cognition, Cognitive Science Society, 2020
Best Paper Award, Cooperative AI Workshop, NeurIPS, 2020
Glushko Dissertation Prize, Cognitive Science Society, 2019
Best Paper Award, Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, 2017
William James Prize, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2017
Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2016
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2011
Fulbright Research Fellowship (China), 2011
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009
Marshall Scholar, 2009
Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, 2008
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