Brief Bio

Degrees/Qualifications:

Chartered Psychologist, since 1997.

 

PhD, Dept. of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, December, 1992 (AI & Psychology program).
Thesis: TBPA: A methodology and software environment for testing process models' sequential predictions with protocols.
Advisors: Allen Newell and Jill Larkin.

MS, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1989 (psychology).
Thesis: The effect of feature frequency on feeling-of-knowing and strategy selection for arithmetic problems.
Advisors: Lynne Reder and Allen Newell.

Graduate course work, Computer Science, Brandeis, 1986.

Graduate course work, Computer Science, Yale, 1984.

BSEE (cum laude), University of Illinois/Urbana, 1983 (electrical engineering).

Current Position

• Prof. of Information Sciences and Technology in the College of Information Sciences and Technology
  Prof. of Psychology (associated with the Cognitive area)
  Prof. of Computer Science and Engineering
• Fulbright Senior Scholar to TU Chemnitz, September to December 2005.
• Member, ESF Learning in Humans and machines, Task Force 3: Learning strategies to cope with sequencing effects, And its book.
• External examiner, Knowledge Management Systems, Cranfield U., 2002-2006.
• External examiner, Cognitive Science degree, U. of Hertfordshire, 1997-2000.
• AI and Simulation of Behavior Society and State College ACLU committee member.
• Reader, The British Library.
• Member (or former member), IEEE, IEEE SMC Society, ACM, ACMSIGCHI, BPS, Cognitive Science Society, APS, AAAI, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma X, AI and Simulation of Behaviour.

Curricula Vitae

Here is a link to my Curricula Vitae, which has my full list of research, awards, publications, service, and so on.