Tom Griffiths (cognitive scientist)

Tom Griffiths
Born
London, England
Alma materUniversity of Western Australia
Stanford University
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
Cognitive science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Princeton University
Thesis Causes, coincidences, and theories  (2005)
Doctoral advisorJoshua Tenenbaum

Thomas L. Griffiths (born circa 1978) is an Australian academic who is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He studies human decision-making and its connection to problem-solving methods in computation. His book with Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, was named one of the "Best Books of 2016" by MIT Technology Review.