Qualitative Reasoning Group

Northwestern University

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People

bullet itembullet item Current Members

bullet item Faculty

bullet item Kenneth D. Forbus
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education
Chair of the Cognitive Systems Division/Department of EECS

bullet item Tom Hinrichs
Research Associate

bullet item Staff

bullet item Jenn Stedillie
Research Study Programs Coordinator II
Webmaster of Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center: an NSF Science of Learning Center

bullet item Jeffrey Usher
Senior Software Developer
Currently involved in the SILC program developing CogSketch; I've also been involved in many QRG projects, including nuSketch, sKEA, and Companions. Interests include spatial reasoning, human/computer interaction, and digital assistants.

bullet item Graduate Students

bullet item David Barbella
more info coming soon

bullet item Maria Chang
more info coming soon

bullet item Morteza Dehghani
My research interests include decision making using hybrid methods, causal and counterfactual reasoning and belief revision. I am currently working on systems which use analogical, probabilistic and qualitative methods to model cultural decision making.

bullet item Scott Friedman
I'm interested in creating systems that learn and revise conceptual knowledge. This involves recognizing and reasoning about anomalies, uncertainty, justifications, contradictions, and explanations. I'm also interested in utilizing these computational methodologies to create a cognitive model of conceptual change. .

bullet item Daniel Halstead
more info coming soon

bullet item Andrew Lovett

I am interested in cognitive modeling in the domains of analogy, perception, and spatial reasoning.

bullet item Matt McLure
more info coming soon

bullet item Abhishek Sharma
Abhishek graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2005. He joined Northwestern in the fall of 2005. He works on Learning by Reading project.

bullet item Jason Taylor
Jason graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. His areas of interest are natural language understanding, causal reasoning, and both goal-directed and spontaneous creative cognition. He is currently investigating modeling conceptual design as it is employed by engineers in the design of dynamical systems.

bullet item Leo C. Ureel II
more info coming soon

bullet item Jon Wetzel
Jon Wetzel is researching sketch understanding and qualitative reasoning to create intelligent tutoring software that can understand and critique sketches of engineering designs. He works with the NSF Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center to use the CogSketch platform to create a "Design Buddy" for Northwestern's Engineering Design and Communication program.

bullet item Jin Yan
more info coming soon

bullet item Panrong Yin
Panrong graduated from Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. She joined Northwestern in Fall 2008 and is working on Cogsketch.

bullet item Undergraduates

bullet item Arun Ahuja

bullet item Jonathan Davis

bullet item Clifton McFate

bullet item Affiliated Faculty

bullet item Larry Birnbaum, Professor of Computer Science

bullet item Dedre Gentner, Professor of Psychology

bullet item Chris Riesbeck, Professor of Computer Science

bullet item Affiliated Students

bullet item David Little

bullet item Jiahui Liu

bullet item Kevin Livingston

bullet item Camillia Matuk

bullet item Earl Wagner

bullet itembullet item Alumni

bullet item Julie Baher

bullet item James Baker, EECS

bullet item Thomas Bittner

bullet item Mike Brokowski

bullet item Karen Elizabeth Carney

bullet item Vernell Chapman

bullet item John Collins

bullet item Dennis DeCoste

bullet item Kevin Dill

bullet item Greg Dunham

bullet item Patricia Dyck

bullet item John Everett, ALPHATECH Inc.

bullet item Brian Falkenhainer

bullet item Boi Faltings

bullet item Ronald W. Ferguson, Georgia Tech

bullet item Philip Houk

bullet item Matthew Klenk
Phd, March 2009

bullet item Sven Kuehne

bullet item Hyeon Kyeong Kim

bullet item Kate Lockwood
PhD, July 2009
Assistant Professor, California Sate University-Monterey Bay

bullet item Joyce Ma

bullet item Cara J. Meverden

bullet item Paul Nielsen

bullet item Praveen Paritosh (Fall '07)

bullet item Yusuf Pisan

bullet item Nikitas Sgouros

bullet item Emmett Tomai
Phd, June 2009

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