About me

Welcome! I’m Kei Yoshida (吉田慶 in Japanese; pronounced /ˈkeɪ/, just like the letter K), and I am a 6th-year PhD candidate in the Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences (CoPsy) at Brown University. I work with Dr. William H. Warren in the Virtual Environment Navigation Lab (VENLab).

I am also pursuing a master’s degree in the Computer Science Department through the Open Graduate Education Program.

For my research, I investigate how collective motion dynamically emerges from local visual interactions of individual pedestrians. I am particularly interested in how pedestrians influence the behaviors of other pedestrians and how these leader-follower interactions change over time.

Before joining the VENLab, I earned my B.A. in Computer Science and Psychology at Coe College. I worked with Dr. Benjamin Chihak, who introduced me to the world of navigation/locomotion research in natural and virtual environment.