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I am a PhD candidate from The Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Sciences and Technology, advised by Frank Ritter.

In my work, I study computational human cognition and its integration with AI agents and systems.

In my life, I dance, sing, walk, and cook.

Recent news

Aug: Patent w/ Dan Kushnir @Bell Labs submitted for initial legal review.

July: CogDriver won best paper @HFES 2025.

July: Grant proposal on human-agent interaction with a neurosymbolic decision-making multi-agent system is funded by Penn State SSRI Level 1.

Patents

• System and Method for a Cognitive Architecture Utilized in Manufacturing.
  Wu, S., Alessandro Oltramari
  Pending, Bosch LLC., 2025.
  

• HARP: Human-like Robot Adaptation through Remediation and Memory Driven Planning.
  Wu, S., Dan Kushnir
  Submitted for initial legal review, Bell labs, Nokia., 2025.

Selected publication

• CogDriver: The Longest-Running Autonomous Driving Cognitive Model Exhibits Human Factors.
  Christian Wasta, Siyu Wu, Frank E. Ritter.
  AHFE, Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things
  🏆 Best student paper
  paper
• VSM-ACTR 2: A Human-Like Decision Making Model with Metacognition for Manufacturing Solutions.
  Siyu Wu, Alessandro Oltramari, Frank E. Ritter.
  Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
  paper
• Cognitive LLMs: Toward Human-Like Artificial Intelligence by Integrating Cognitive Architectures and Large Language Models for Manufacturing Decision-making.
  Siyu Wu, Alessandro Oltramari, Jonathan Francis, C. Lee Giles, Frank E. Ritter.
  Journal of Neurosymbolic AI
  paper
• LLM-ACTR: from Cognitive Models to LLMs in Manufacturing Solutions.
  Siyu Wu, Alessandro Oltramari, Jonathan Francis, C. Lee Giles, Frank E. Ritter.
  AAAI-MAKE 2025 Oral
  paper | slides
• Neurosymbolic Cognitive Methods for Enhancing Foundation Model-based Reasoning.
  Kaushik Roy, Siyu Wu, Alessandro Oltramari.
  Handbook on Neurosymbolic AI and Knowledge Graphs
  paper
• VSM-ACT-R: Toward Using Cognitive Architecture For Manufacturing Solutions.
  Siyu Wu, Alessandro Oltramari, Frank Ritter.
  SBP-BRIMS 2024 Oral
  🏆 Best student paper
  paper | repo
• Comparing LLMs for Prompt-Enhanced ACT-R and Soar Model Development: A Case Study in Cognitive Simulation
  Siyu WuRodrigo F. Souza, Frank Ritter, Walter Lima Jr.
  AAAI Symposia 2023 Oral
  paper | repo | slides
• Long Road Ahead: Lessons Learned from the (soon to be) Longest Running Cognitive Model
  Siyu Wu Amir Bagherzadeh, Frank Ritter, Farnaz Tehranchi.
  ICCM 2023 Oral
  paper | repo | slides | simulation

Work

• 2025 ML/AI intern at Bell labs, Nokia advised by Dan Kushnir.
  
• 2024 Neurosymbolic AI intern at Bosch Center for AI advised by Alessandro Oltramari, collaborated with Cory Henson, and Jonathan Francis .
  performance review | slides
• 2021 instrutional tech intern at Brex.
  porfolio
  

  Selected talks

• From Cognitive Models to LLMs in Decision-making, 2025 Soar Workshop, Center for Integrated Cognition, UMichigan.
  
• 2024 Annual Ethical AI symposium, Michigan institute for data & AI in society, UMichigan.
  Talk sketch | In proceedings
• LLAMA-ACT-R, a Neuro-Symbolic Architecture (ACT-R) for LLM Decision Making, 2024 Soar Workshop, Center for Integrated Cognition, UMichigan.
  slides
  

Teaching assist

• IST557 Data mining, Fall 2025 & Fall 2024, fundamental for MS and PhD in AI & DS tracks
• IST510 Computational Informatics, Spring 2025, fundamental for Infomatics PhD

Recent readings

The happiness effect (Donna Freitas)
From crook to cook (Snoop Dogg)
(Last updated: Aug 2025)