Yuka Machino

450 Jane Stanford Way

Stanford, CA 94305

I am PhD Student at Stanford studying Cognitive Science. I am advised by Prof. Robert Hawkins, and am part of the SoIL lab.

I am interested in how social factors shape communication. Using behavioral experiments and computational modeling, I am especially interested in understanding how cultural differences in values, common sense and ways of life, lead to differences in everyday interactions.

Prior to Stanford, I completed bachelor’s degrees in math and computer science, and my master’s in computer science at MIT.

selected publications

CogSci

Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication

Yuka Machino, Matthias Hofer, Max Siegel, and 2 more authors

2025

Bib

@misc{machino2025mindingpolitenessgapcrosscultural,
  title = {Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication},
  author = {Machino, Yuka and Hofer, Matthias and Siegel, Max and Tenenbaum, Joshua B. and Hawkins, Robert D.},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2506.15623},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15623},
}

news

Sep 22, 2025	Joined Stanford Computer Science as a PhD Student