Brendan is a PhD candidate and consultant who shares the latest research on metacognition and its benefits.

Please contact for postdoctoral opportunities (completing PhD in spring 2026).

NEWS
Invited talk at Stanford’s Causality in Cognition Lab
Presentation at AAAI at Stanford University.
Awarded SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.
Teaching Achievement Award
Interview with LessonUp.com
YouTube channel @ Meta-Think

Invited talk - Stanford

Metacognitive Skill Learning in Humans and AI
Brendan gives an invited talk at Stanford’s Causality in Cognition Lab on how metacognitive skill can enhance both human and machine intelligence (May 2025).

New Paper

Metacognition in HCI (Springer, 2025)
Metacognition is key to adapting in complex and changing environments, yet it's often overlooked in HCI. This paper models metacognitive processes to enable users to plan, adjust, and thrive through a more adaptive interface.

Publication

Metacognitive Learning for Enhanced AI Performance (AAAI 2024).
The paper proposes adding meta-learning into AI systems, to achieve more autonomous learning and problem-solving abilities.

AAAI talk

Metacognitive Learning for Enhanced AI
Brendan discusses how metacognitive mechanisms in humans can be applied to improve Artificial Intelligence. Presented at Stanford, 2024.

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