Zenna Tavares
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Bio
Updated 05/18/26Zenna Tavares is a co-founder and director of Basis Research Institute, where he leads work on universal reasoning systems and causal probabilistic programming. His research focuses on how humans derive knowledge from observing and interacting with the world, and on building computational and statistical tools for causal reasoning, probabilistic programming, and scientific model discovery. He previously served as the inaugural Alan Kanzer Innovation Scholar at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute and Data Science Institute, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT CSAIL in Joshua Tenenbaum’s group, and holds a PhD in Cognitive Science and Statistics from MIT.
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