Draft:Laura Gwilliams

Laura Gwilliams is an assistant Professor of Psychology and, by courtesy, of Linguistics at Stanford University, jointly appointed between Stanford Psychology, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Stanford Data Science.

Gwilliams' work is focused on understanding the computational architecture and operations that give rise to speech comprehension in the human brain. Her work has received extensive recognition, including the Cognitive Science Society Glushko Dissertation Prize, the Dissertation Award from the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, the William Orr Dingwall Fellowship, and Trainee Development Awards from the Society for Neuroscience.

Gwilliams studied Linguistics at Cardiff University before earning a Masters in the cognitive neuroscience of language from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language in San Sebastián, Spain. She then worked as a research assistant at New York University Abu Dhabi from 2013 to 2015. Gwilliams completed her PhD in psychology at New York University with the thesis "Towards a mechanistic account of speech comprehension" and was a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, San Francisco prior to accepting her position at Stanford University in 2023.

Originally from Shropshire, England, Gwilliams is an avid cyclist, traveller, and musician, who currently lives with partner, Annie Marggraff and their dog, Orzo in San Francisco, California.