About Me

Hi! My name is Anjie Cao (Chinese:曹安洁; Pinyin: cáo ān jié). I am currently a consultant at BCG and this website is a relic from my academic time so it won’t be updated regularly. To find my current whereabouts or to connect, Linkedin is a great place! Reach out if you want to chat about transitioning from academia to industry, especially if you have a social science background like me!

I did my Ph.D in Psychology at Stanford with Mike Frank in the Language and Cognition Lab. My dissertation is on understanding how people decide what to look at and when to stop looking throughout their developmental trajectory. I also did some work on cross-cultural psychology and meta-science, which you can find out more the my publications page!

Before Stanford, I was an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, where I studied cognitive science and philosophy. My undergraduate research was primarily on language acquisition in infancy and early childhood. I worked in Infant Language and Learning Lab (PI: Erik Thiessen) and Infant Cognition Lab (PI: David Rakison).

I believe that science should be open, accessible, and relevant to people outside academia. I am the author of a popular science book in Chinese, and the co-founder and host of the Stanford Psychology Podcast. You can learn more about my outreach work under the outreach tab.