Curriculum Vitae
Education
Dartmouth College — Ph.D., Psychological and Brain SciencesAdvisor: Dr. Caroline Robertson · "Gaze in Context: Individual and group differences in real-world visual attention"
2018–2024
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — M.S., Speech-Language Pathology
2011–2013
Yale University — B.A., Cognitive Science
2007–2011
Professional experience
University of California, San Diego — Postdoctoral ScholarAdvisor: Dr. Bria Long (PI: Visual Learning Lab)
2024–present
Microsoft Research — Ph.D. Research Intern, Enabling Experiences Team
2021
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT — Project Management Specialist, Autism Research
2014–2018
Grants, fellowships, & awards
- Huo Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026–2027
- NIH Blueprint and BRAIN Initiative D-SPAN (F99/K00) 2023–2029
- Marie A. Center 1982 Award, Graduate Student Excellence in Research 2023
- Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Travel Award 2023
- Summer School on Computational Modeling for Language, UC Irvine, Travel Award 2022
- Guarini Prize for Outstanding Research Poster, Dartmouth College 2019
- LEND Fellowship in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, UNC–Chapel Hill 2012
Peer-reviewed publications
A full, citation-formatted list is on the Publications page.
Invited talks
- Social Cognition and Learning Lab, UC San Diego March 2024
- Psychology of Language Lab, Princeton University February 2024
- Cognitive Development Lab, Indiana University January 2024
- Saxe Lab, MIT April 2023
- Language Lab / TedLab, MIT November 2022
- Human-Computer Interaction Intern Series, Microsoft Research August 2021
- Isik Lab, Johns Hopkins University July 2021
Conference presentations
- Knowledge differences affect gaze behavior during naturalistic object exploration. Haskins, A., Sepuri, T., & Long, B. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN). Poster, August 2025
- Knowledge differences affect naturalistic object exploration. Southern California Meeting for Investigations in Developmental Science. Talk, May 2025
- Gaze patterns modeled with a LLM can be used to classify autistic vs. non-autistic viewers. Haskins, A., Botch, T.L., Garcia, B.D., McLaren, J., & Robertson, C.E. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting. Poster, May 2024
- Autistic group differences in social attention are magnified by real-world perceptual load and linguistic features. Haskins, A.J., Mentch, J., Botch, T.L., Garcia, B.D., Burrows, A.L., & Robertson, C. International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting. Talk, May 2023
- Stable individual differences in gaze behavior reflect unique conceptual priority maps. Packard, K., Haskins, A.J., & Robertson, C.E. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting. Poster, May 2023
- Autistic group differences in social attention are magnified by real-world perceptual and linguistic features. Haskins, A.J., Mentch, J., Botch, T.L., Garcia, B.D., Burrows, A.L., & Robertson, C.E. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting. Poster, May 2023
- Behind the Eyes: Insights into cognition from naturalistic gaze behavior in VR (Tutorial Co-Presenter). Keynote: C.E. Robertson; Tutorial: A.J. Haskins, D. Prasad, T. Botch, & B. Garcia. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN). Tutorial, August 2023
- Stable, individuating patterns of visual attention in abstract conceptual feature space revealed using natural language model. Haskins, A.J., Packard, K.O., & Robertson, C.E. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN). Poster, August 2023
- "Attentional Fingerprints": Real-world scene semantics capture individuating signatures in gaze behavior. Haskins, A.J., & Robertson, C.E. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting. Talk, May 2022
- Measuring naturalistic attention in complex, real-world environments in autism. Haskins, A.J., Botch, T.L., Garcia, B.D., McLaren, J.L., & Robertson, C. International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting. Talk, May 2021
- Active vision impacts how we move our eyes and what we attend to: Evidence from eye-tracking in immersive, 360° real-world environments. Haskins, A.J., Mentch, J., Botch, T., Steel, A., & Robertson, C. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting. Talk, June 2020
Service & peer review
- Ad hoc journal reviewer: Autism, Infancy, Journal of Vision
- Abstract reviewer, Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA)
- Panelist, Hidden Curriculum Panel, Career Transition Series, UC San Diego January 2025
- Co-organizer, Cognitive Brown Bag Series, Dartmouth College 2021–2023
- Graduate student representative, Faculty Fellow Search Committee, Dartmouth College 2021–2022
- Graduate student representative, Climate Initiative Working Group, Dartmouth College 2020–2021
- Co-organizer, Graduate Student Research Roundtable, Dartmouth College 2019–2020
Teaching experience
- Guest Lecture, PSYC 397: Infant Cognition, Lehigh University — "Naturalistic viewing for new insights on visual attention" October 2025
- Laboratory in Psychological Science — Course TA and Guest Lecturer 2019, 2020
- Cognitive Neuroscience — Course TA 2020
- Developmental Psychology — Course TA and Guest Lecturer 2020
Honors thesis mentorship
- Nicole Sahrling, UC San Diego 2025–2026 · "Relating changes in children's line drawings and descriptions across development" · Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
- Kate Packard, Dartmouth College 2021–2023 · "Semantic content and gaze patterns during dyadic conversation in autism" · Best Thesis Prize, Psychology; Honorable Mention, Neukom Outstanding Undergraduate Research
- Erica Busch, Dartmouth College 2019–2020 · "A deep learning approach to scene perception in autism" · Academic Achievement Prize, Cognitive Science; 2nd Prize, Neukom Outstanding Undergraduate Research