People

 Current Members

 Faculty

 Kenneth D. Forbus

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education

Chair of the Cognitive Systems Division/Department of EECS

 Tom Hinrichs

Research Associate Professor

 Staff

 Carrie Ost

Program Assistant

 Jenn Stedillie

Research Study Programs Coordinator II

Webmaster of Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center: an NSF Science of Learning Center

 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.

 Graduate Students

 David Barbella

more info coming soon

 Christopher Blair

more info coming soon

 Maria Chang

Maria's research interests include AI applications in education, spatial learning and diagrammatic reasoning. She is a member of the CogSketch team, where she works on improving coaching and tutoring within CogSketch and exploring new sketch-based intelligent tutoring systems. Maria joined QRG in Fall 2009.

 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. .

 Balasubramanian ("Subu") Kandaswamy

Subu joined QRG in fall 2010. He is interested in doing research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and psychology. He is currently investigating cognitive models of how children learn relational abstractions.

 Andrew Lovett

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

 Matt McLure

I want to investigate what it would take for a cognitive architecture to participate in robust concept learning through long-term, multi-modal interaction. To this end, I am particularly interested in active learning techniques, flexible representation schemes, re-representation strategies, and sketch understanding. I have been with QRG since the fall of 2009, and I am involved in the Freeciv, Companions, and CogSketch projects.

 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.

 Jon Wetzel

Jon Wetzel joined QRG in the Fall of 2007, and is researching sketch understanding and qualitative reasoning to create intelligent coaching 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.

 Visitors

 Frank Leenaars, University of Twente

Visiting Student

Past Visitors

 Tomoya Horiguchi, Kobe University

Visiting Researcher, Fall 2010 through Summer 2011

 Undergraduates

 Affiliated Faculty

 Larry Birnbaum, Professor of Computer Science

 Dedre Gentner, Professor of Psychology

 Chris Riesbeck, Professor of Computer Science

 Alumni

 Arun Ahuja

 Julie Baher

 James Baker, EECS

 Thomas Bittner

 Mike Brokowski

 Karen Elizabeth Carney

 Vernell Chapman

 John Collins

 Jonathan Davis

 Dennis DeCoste

 Morteza Dehghani

PhD, December 2009

 Kevin Dill

 Greg Dunham

 Patricia Dyck

 John Everett, ALPHATECH Inc.

 Brian Falkenhainer

 Boi Faltings

 Ronald W. Ferguson, Georgia Tech

 Daniel Halstead

PhD, September 2011

 Philip Houk

 Matthew Klenk

Phd, June 2009

 Sven Kuehne

PhD, June 2004

 Hyeon Kyeong Kim

 Kate Lockwood

PhD, December 2009

Assistant Professor, California State University-Monterey Bay

 Joyce Ma

 Clifton McFate

QRG Undergraduate

 Cara J. Meverden

 Paul Nielsen

 Praveen Paritosh

PhD, December 2007

 Yusuf Pisan

 Abhishek Sharma

Abhishek graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2005. He joined Northwestern in the fall of 2005. He worked on the Learning by Reading project. He successfully defended his dissertation: Structural and Network-Based Methods for Knowledge-Based Systems  PDF of announcement

 Nikitas Sgouros

 Emmett Tomai

Phd, December 2009

 Leo C. Ureel II

 Jin Yan