Dr. Anna Leshinskaya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine where she directs the Relational Cognition Lab; she is also Fellow at the Center for Neurobiology of Learning & Memory and an affiliated researcher with the AI Objectives Institute. She earned her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Harvard University. She is broadly interested in human cognition, its implementation in the brain, and how it can be emulated in machines. In her most recent research, she leverages insights from cognitive science to measure cognitive and moral alignment between humans and large language models (LLMs), with a particular interest in comparing the mechanisms by which LLMs perform social, causal, and relational inferences.