About
Hi! I am an Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and the School of Artificial Intelligence, at Radboud University, Netherlands.
My research interests comprise (meta)theoretical, critical, and radical perspectives on the neuro-, computational, and cognitive sciences broadly construed. Additionally, I am an Associate Editor-in-Chief for ReScience C and for the Journal of Open Source Software.
I am committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in (open) science, e.g., promoting access to technical skills training — including the broader decolonisation of cognitive and computational sciences. Relatedly, Christina Bergmann and I maintain a list of underrepresented cognitive computational scientists.
Biography
I emigrated from Cyprus to the UK in 2006 to pursue an undergraduate degree in Computer Science (2009; University of York, UK). After that, I moved on to an MSc in Cognitive and Decision Sciences (2010; University College London, UK). I then undertook a PhD in Psychological Sciences (2014; Birkbeck, UK), specifically on computational models for semantic memory.
Since obtaining my PhD, I have worked in labs at the University of Oxford, University College London, and as an independent scientist at a research centre in Cyprus. In 2020, I moved to the Netherlands to work with Andrea E. Martin, before starting as an Assistant Professor at the Radboud where I still work.
Mentoring
If you are interested in working with me, feel free to contact me. Prior to that, it might be worth taking a look at the following themes of research that currently interest me:
- Critical perspectives on AI, its history, and its current state, including projects about artificial neural networks, sans hype.
- (Meta)theory development in neuro-, cognitive, computational, and psychological sciences.
- Human categorisation, and computational models thereof, from a perspective of what is lacking in our narrow framing of this human capacity.
Publications
- Guest, O. (2024). What Makes a Good Theory, and How Do We make a Theory Good?. Computational Brain & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-023-00193-2
- Guest, O. & Forbes, S. H. (2023). Teaching coding inclusively: if this, then what?. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/3r2ez
- van Rooij, I., Guest, O., Adolfi, F. G., de Haan, R., Kolokolova, A., & Rich, P. (2023). Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4cbuv
- van der Gun, L. & Guest, O. (2023). Artificial Intelligence: Panacea or Non-intentional Dehumanisation?. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/rh4fw
- Guest, O. & Martin, A. E. (2023). On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks. Computational Brain & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-022-00166-x
- Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jqxb6
- Forbes, S. H., Aneja, P., & Guest, O. (2022). The Myth of Normative Development. Infant and Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2393
- Spanton, R. W. & Guest, O. (2022). Measuring Trustworthiness or Automating Physiognomy? A Comment on Safra, Chevallier, Grèzes, and Baumard (2020). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2202.08674
- Birhane, A. & Guest, O. (2021). Towards Decolonising Computational Sciences. Women, Gender & Research. https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v29i2.124899
- Guest, O. & Martin, A. E. (2021). How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620970585
- Barlas, P., Kyriakou, K., Guest, O., Kleanthous, S., & Otterbacher, J. (2021). To "See" is to Stereotype: Image Tagging Algorithms, Gender Recognition, and the Accuracy-Fairness Trade-off. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3432931
- Whitaker, K. J. & Guest, O. (2020). #bropenscience is broken science. The Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4099011
- Guest, O., Caso, A., & Cooper, R. P. (2020). On Simulating Neural Damage in Connectionist Networks. Computational Brain & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-020-00081-z
- Guest, O. & Rougier, N. P. (2016). Dialogue: what is computational reproducibility?. IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.
- Cooper, R. P. & Guest, O. (2014). Implementations are not specifications: specification, replication and experimentation in computational cognitive modeling. Cognitive Systems Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.05.001