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
- 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
- Maria Chang
- more info coming soon
- 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.
- 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.
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- Daniel Halstead
- more info coming soon
- Andrew Lovett
- I am interested in cognitive modeling in the domains of analogy, perception, and spatial reasoning.
- Matt McLure
- more info coming soon
- 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.
- 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.
- Leo C. Ureel II
- more info coming soon
- 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.
- Jin Yan
- more info coming soon
- Panrong Yin
- Panrong graduated from Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. She joined Northwestern in Fall 2008 and is working on Cogsketch.
Undergraduates
- Arun Ahuja
- Jonathan Davis
- Clifton McFate
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
- Matthew Klenk
- Phd, March 2009
- Sven Kuehne
- Hyeon Kyeong Kim
- Kate Lockwood
- PhD, July 2009
- Assistant Professor, California Sate University-Monterey Bay
- Joyce Ma
- Cara J. Meverden
- Paul Nielsen
- Praveen Paritosh (Fall '07)
- Yusuf Pisan
- Nikitas Sgouros
- Emmett Tomai
- Phd, June 2009
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