Deborah Forster

Deborah Forster received the Ph.D. degree in cognitive science from University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, in 2012. She is currently a Project Scientist at the Qualcomm Institute of Calit2 at the University of California, San Diego, (UCSD) La Jolla, CA, USA, and a Researcher in the Machine Perception Laboratory at the Neural Institute for Computation. She trained in Behavioral Ecology and Cognitive Science at UCSD. She spent many years studying wild baboons in Kenya and worked with other primates at the San Diego Zoo. In her research, she tracks behavioral dynamics on multiple spatio–temporal scales, in multiagent settings. She applies dynamical systems principles framed in state-space and timeseries analyses that are prevalent in other computational and machine learning approaches in the cognitive sciences.