NAME:

Jon A. Willits

OCCUPATION:

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CONTACT INFO:

jwillits@illinois.edu

LAB WEBSITE:

Learning and Language Lab

CURRICULUM VITAE:

Available Here.

I am from Omaha, Nebraska. I graduated Millard North High School in 1997.

I received a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 2002, where I was generously supported by the Walter Scott Jr. Scholarship from The Peter Kiewit Institute.

I attended the University of California-Riverside for a few years (2002-2006), working in the Computational Cognition Lab, picking up an M.S. in Cognitive Psychology along the way.

I received my PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in June 2012. I worked in the Infant Learning Lab and the Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab. I was generously supported by a predoctoral grant from the National Institutes of Health.

I worked for three years as a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. I am involved in a number of projects in collaboration with Dr. Michael Jones's Cognitive Computing Lab, and Dr. David Pisoni's Speech Research Lab.

I worked for three years as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California Riverside.