I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Psychology at Stanford University advised by Tobi Gerstenberg. My research focuses on causal and counterfactual reasoning in social contexts. I integrate behavioral experiments and computational modeling to study how people infer, understand, explain, and judge each other’s actions.

I am supported by a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, the Cooperative AI Foundation, and the NSF GRFP. I have had research internships at AI2 and Apple. Before graduate school, I studied math, computer science, and cognitive science at MIT, where I worked with Josh Tenenbaum and Ted Gibson.

Outside of research, I like reading, listening to music, drinking boba, and spending time with my dog. I am committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in science, and formerly led a high school science outreach program called Stanford FAST.

You can email me at sarahawu [at] stanford.edu.