Swaroop Vattam’s dissertation was one among the
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Yuqi Zhang
Hi:)
I am a visiting research student coming from China. I am new comer here and is getting familiar with the teammates now.
My research area was mainly focused on data mining in my home university, and I used to be a web tool tester(.Net/C#) intern in Intel, but I love to try new things.
BID really interests me, and is also a new challenge to me.I hope to learn as much as I can during the stay here and become good friends with everyoneO(∩_∩)O
I love vegetable and fruit, but having few fight of meat+_+
If you are interested in China or Chinese Language or anything about China, please feel free to talk to me
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Mikhail Jacob
I’m a second year Master’s student in Computer Science, specialising in Interactive Intelligence. I have worked on the GAIA project since my first semester, working on adapting agents for Tic Tac Toe and its variants. I believe that games are the perfect test bed for all kinds of serious research and this is one such project involving self-adaptation and meta-thinking in game playing agents.
In general, I am interested in how creative AI systems can foster an understanding of creativity and its role in cognition and the human experience. I am also deeply interested in the interplay between affect and creativity and a firm believer in AI’s original dream of Artificial General Intelligence.
Spencer Rugaber
Dr. Spencer Rugaber is a faculty member in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the area of Software Engineering, specifically reverse engineering and program comprehension, software evolution and maintenance and software design. Dr. Rugaber has served as Program Director for the Software Engineering and Languages Program at the U. S. National Science Foundation and as as Vice-Chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Reverse Engineering.
Daniel Connelly
Daniel completed his master’s degree in computer science in the Design & Intelligence Laboratory.
He completed his bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics at Georgia Tech, worked full-time at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory on defense research projects, and twice taught an advanced high school mathematics course at a charter school in Atlanta. He also works with Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing on course design and evaluation.
His academic interests include software engineering, programming languages and compilers, and artificial intelligence. He conducted his master’s project work on software development process and language implementation for the GAIA meta-reasoning project.
Daniel’s personal web site and blog can be found at dhconnelly.com. He now works at Google as a full-time software engineer.
Marshall Gillson
I’m working to complete my Master’s degree in the Design & Intelligence Lab with research into game playing adaptations. I’ve been designing software agents to play a number of different games and examining the differences between those agents. In this way, I aim to determine what kinds of strategy adaptations are compelled by different kinds of rule changes. These exercises should lead to the development of generalized guidelines for and theories of adaptation in games, which in their turn serve as a microcosm for more broad notions of strategy and plan modification.
More generally, I am interested in Artificial Intelligence as a method for investigating cognition and consciousness as abstract phenomena. Right now, human intelligence is our only exemplar for them; cognitive systems hold the promise of creating more data points and empirically testing hypotheses. Which hypotheses we should test and how those systems should be designed, however, are big questions. In pursuit of answers, I’ve been overdosing on Cognitive Science classes.
Summer camp run by DILab at Georgia Tech
Ph.D. student David Joyner and research scientist David Majerich, with the help of undergraduates Nicolas Papin and Cherish Weiler, have successfully run a summer camp testing the DILab-developed MILA and MeTA software. In all, 16 students participated in the camp at Georgia Tech, during which time they visited Lake Clara Meer at Piedmont Park, the Georgia Aquarium, and several labs around campus.
Swaroop Vattam completes his Ph.D. defense
Swaroop Vattam successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Interactive Analogical Retrieval: Practice, Theory and Technology”. Congratulations, Swaroop!
Ashok Goel
Ashok Goel is a Professor of Computer Science and Human-Centered Computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Chief Scientist with Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities. He is also the Executive Director of NSF’s National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education.
Ashok conducted his Ph.D. research in Computer and Information Science at The Ohio State University under the supervision of Professor (Emeritus) Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran (http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~chandrasekaran.1/index-old.html). His dissertation was titled Integrating Case-Based and Model-Based Reasoning for Adaptive Design Problem Solving. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1989 immediately after receiving his Ph.D. At Georgia Tech, he directs the Design Intelligence Laboratory that presently consists of several faculty, research scientists, and about twenty graduate and undergraduate students.
Ashok conducts research into cognitive systems at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive science with a focus on computational design and creativity, especially in the context of nature inspired design. He was a co-author of “An information-processing account of creative analogies in biologically inspired design” that received the Best Paper Award at the Eighth ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition in 2011. He was a co-editor of Biologically inspired design: Computational methods and tools published by Springer-Verlag in 2014. His 2012 TEDx talk summarizes some of this research. From 2008 to 2018, Ashok was a Co-Director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design, and from 2012 to 2017, he served on the Board of Directors of the non-profit The Biomimicry Institute including as the Board President during 2015-2017. He is presently a Fellow with the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.
Over the last decade or so, much of Ashok’s cognitive systems research has focused on human learning and education, especially online education for lifelong learning. In 2014, he developed a popular online course on Knowledge-Based AI as part of Georgia Tech’s Online Master of Science in Computer Science program. In 2016, he developed Jill Watson, a virtual teaching assistant for answering students’ questions in discussion forums of online classes. His 2016 TEDx talk summarizes some of this research. [A review article in a special issue of Chronicle of Higher Education in December 2016 called “virtual assistants exemplified by Jill Watson as one of the most transformative educational technologies in the digital era”]. In 2018, he co-edited Blended learning in practice: A guide for researchers and practitioners published by MIT Press. From 2012 to 2019, Ashok was the Director of Georgia Tech’s Ph.D. program in Human-Centered Computing. In 2020, he founded Beyond Question (LLC), an AI-based educational technology startup.
Ashok was the Editor-in-Chief of AI Magazine published by the Association for Advancement in AI from 2016 to 2021 (AAAI). In 2019, he led the launching of AAAI’s Interactive AI Magazine. He is now an Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of AI Magazine. From 2015 to 2020, Ashok was an Associate Editor of Design Science Journal, the flagship journal of the Design Society. In 2019, Ashok was a Co-Chair of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society held in Montreal, Canada, in July 2019.
In 2019, Ashok received AAAI’s Outstanding AI Educator Award; the citation reads: For sustained excellence in teaching, innovation in using AI to teach AI, scientific experimentation and scholarship to assess and improve AI pedagogy, and the many resources he has shared with the community at large. In 2020 he received University System of Georgia Regent’s Award for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of AAAI; the citation reads: For significant contributions to research on cognitive systems, design, and education, and for distinguished leadership and teaching. Recently, he was also elected as a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
In July 2021, NSF announced a large multi-university interdisciplinary award for establishing a National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education. The AI-ALOE Institute headquartered at Georgia Tech was formally launched on November 1, 2021. Ashok is the Executive Director of the AI-ALOE Institute.
