Jamie Kai

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I am a student in the BCS-ICS (second Bachelor’s in Computer Science) program at the University of British Columbia. Before this, I studied Mathematics and Music at McGill University.

My current interests include automated reasoning, formal verification, programming language theory, probabilistic models of computation, and decision theory. I am interested in investigating the applicability of these concepts to safe and explainable AI.

I am fortunate to have worked with Dr. Alex Summers at UBC on the Viper project, and with Dr. Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo at the University of Waterloo on network performance analysis. I previously worked as a long-term research assistant and lab manager at the UBC Vision Lab with Dr. James Enns, where I helped develop studies on action-perception theory, social psychology, and object perception.

Outside of this, I have worked as a software developer in scientific research, from full-stack development to implementation of DSP algorithms and statistical analyses.


selected publications

  1. Listening to trees in the forest: Attentional set influences how semantic and acoustic factors interact in auditory perception
    Veronica Dudarev, Jamie Kai, Noor Brar, and James T. Enns
    Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2024
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  2. Self-monitoring hinders the ability to read affective facial expressions
    Manlu Liu, Veronica Dudarev, Jamie Kai, Noor Brar, and James T. Enns
    Visual Cognition, 2024
    DOI