Matthew Stone

Matthew Stone is Professor of Computer Science and holds an appointment in the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. He served as chair of the Computer Science Department from 2019-2023. He did his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Stone’s research bridges the design of AI-powered conversational agents with linguistic, psychological and philosophical research on the mechanisms of collaborative language use in human face-to-face conversation. His recent computational research has explored the generation and interpretation of image captions, pointing gestures, and clarification requests, in tandem with philosophical work on chatbot design, discourse coherence, context-dependence, and the interpretation of situated utterances.