Pedro Tsividis
I'm the founder and CEO of Resin, where we're building generative instruments for music production. We're in beta with a small group of producers right now.
I started playing drums and piano as a toddler, and music has been the center of my life ever since. After playing a ton of classical piano throughout childhood and early adulthood, I studied jazz piano and drums at the New England Conservatory, and went on to do a PhD in cognitive science at MIT in Josh Tenenbaum's lab, where I worked on how humans learn and reason so effectively from limited experience — and how to build AI systems that can do the same. Before MIT, I studied philosophy at Columbia.
Some things I love: Chopin's third sonata, Missy Elliott collabs, eating a lamb chop on a Greek island, five on five in the park.
Experience
Research
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Human-level learning of complex novel tasks as theory-based modeling, exploration and planning
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2026 — Project page
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The Neural Architecture of Theory-based Reinforcement Learning
Neuron, 2023
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What is the Model in Model-Based Planning?
Cognitive Science, 2021
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Learning to solve complex tasks by growing knowledge culturally across generations
NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Cooperative AI — Best Paper Award
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Human learning in Atari
AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2017
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Hypothesis-Space Constraints in Causal Learning
CogSci 2015
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Information Selection in Noisy Environments with Large Action Spaces
CogSci 2014
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Reasoning with Inconsistent Causal Beliefs
CogSci 2013 — Computational Modeling Prize
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