Kelsey is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. Prior to this, she spent 4 years working as a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. She received her PhD from MIT in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and her BSc from the University of British Columbia in Physics. Her work has received awards including the international Glushko prize for best dissertation in cognitive science, a best paper award from Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), and an NSERC PhD fellowship. Spanning robotics, machine learning, and cognitive science, her work aims to elucidate the mechanisms that give rise to adaptive and efficient learning, especially in the domains of decision-making and reasoning.