Understanding intelligence

We are studying the ingredients of intelligence in humans and machines. Join us.

Bulletin

• 7/2025 The lab is moving to Princeton University! Brenden has accepted a new position as Associate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology, starting Sept. 2025.
• 2/2024: In the News! Our lab publishes in Science on “Grounded language acquisition through the eyes and ears of a single child”, with write-ups in the The New York Times and the Washington Post.
• 11/2023: In the News! Our lab publishes in Nature on “Human-like systematic generalization through a meta-learning neural network”, with write-ups in Scientific American and Nature News.

About the lab

In 2017, Brenden Lake started the Human & Machine Learning Lab at New York University in 2017. In 2025, the lab moved to Princeton University and evolved into the lab for Human & Machine Intelligence. We are joint between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. Our main location is in Princeton’s Peretsman Scully Hall and includes rooms 117, 120, and 121.