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
Staff
- Jenn Stedillie
- Research Study Programs Coordinator II
- 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
- 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.
- John DeMastri
- I’m interested in transition learning mechanisms that turn qualitative experience into useful common-sense cognitive representations. I’m working now on improving portions of the internal QRG toolset.
- Scott Friedman
- I'm interested in causality, modeling uncertainty, natural language understanding, and self-monitoring to enhance cognition. I'm currently investigating causal inference, conceptual change, and cognitive simulation.
- Daniel Halstead
- more info coming soon
- Matthew Klenk
- My research goals are to explore reasoning methods which improve the robustness of logic based AI systems. I'm currently interested in both within domain and cross domain analogical reasoning and learning. The great part about tackling a problem such as this is that it lays the foundation for a deluge of questions involving the design of cognitive architectures.
- Kate Lockwood
- I am interested in cognitive modeling. In particular modeling multi-modal (text + diagram) knowledge capture, spatial language learning and use, and spatial reasoning.
- Andrew Lovett
- I am interested in cognitive modeling in the domains of analogy, sketch perception, and spatial reasoning.
- 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.
- Emmett Tomai
- Researching causal implication, significance and value judgment in narrative communication. The key areas of interest are natural language understanding, reasoning about agency and plans, reasoning about social interactions and analogical reasoning.
- Leo C. Ureel II
- more info coming soon
- Jon Wetzel
- Jon Wetzel, first year graduate student, is currently working with Prof. Forbus on figuring out how to solve qualitative physics problems in CogSketch. His research interests include qualitative reasoning as applied to spatial learning, sketch understanding, and qualitative physics.
- Jin Yan
- more info coming soon
Affiliated Faculty
- Larry Birnbaum, Professor of Computer Science
- Dedre Gentner, Professor of Psychology
- Chris Riesbeck, Professor of Computer Science
Affiliated Students
- David Little
- Jiahui Liu
- Kevin Livingston
- Camillia Matuk
- Earl Wagner
Alumni
- Julie Baher
- James Baker, EECS
- Thomas Bittner
- Mike Brokowski
- Karen Elizabeth Carney
- Vernell Chapman
- John Collins
- Dennis DeCoste
- Kevin Dill
- Greg Dunham
- Patricia Dyck
- John Everett, ALPHATECH Inc.
- Brian Falkenhainer
- Boi Faltings
- Ronald W. Ferguson, Georgia Tech
- Philip Houk
- Hyeon Kyeong Kim
- Sven Kuehne
- Joyce Ma
- Cara J. Meverden
- Paul Nielsen
- Praveen Paritosh (Fall '07)
- Yusuf Pisan
- Nikitas Sgouros
