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MOLA will be recruiting two new PhD students for Fall 2026, one in Psychology (BCS) and one in CS (NLP). Both positions will focus on the intersection of NLP and cognitive science. Please read the following recent papers from the lab, critique them, and discuss how you would expand on them.

Reasoning On A Spectrum: Aligning LLMs To System 1 And System 2 Thinking

Ziabari, A. S., Ghazizadeh, N., Sourati, Z., Karimi-Malekabadi, F., Piray, P., & Dehghani, M. (2025). arXiv preprint. arXiv:2502.12470

The Shrinking Landscape Of Linguistic Diversity In The Age Of Large Language Models

Sourati, Z., Karimi-Malekabadi, F., Ozcan, M., McDaniel, C., Ziabari, A., Trager, J., Tak, A., Chen, M., Morstatter, F., Dehghani, M. (2025). arXiv preprint. arXiv:2502.11266

CoCo-CoLa: Evaluating Language Adherence In Multilingual LLMs

Rahmati, E., Ziabari, A. S., Dehghani, M. (2025). arXiv preprint. arXiv:2502.12476

Reinforced Multiple Instance Selection For Speaker Attribute Prediction

Ziabari, A. S., Omrani, A., Hejabi, P., Golazizian, P., Kennedy, B., Piray, P., Dehghani, M. (2024). Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)