Overview

My early interests in the field stemmed from a desire to see computers think the way people do. After pursuing both computer science and psychology undergraduate degrees, I came to learn that traditional Artificial Intelligence was more concerned with rational thought rather than human thought. I decided that I needed to spend some time understanding people and the mechanisims that drive human cognition before I could ever try to mimic them elsewhere. Albert Einstein once claimed:

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

And so I embarked on a journey to study the power of irrational thought. I currently work in a Decision Making lab at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.

Dissertation

TBD

Recent News

I spent the summer in Maryland working at Army Research Laboratory with their cognitive robotics team. The project is still in an early phase of development with a goal to base a robotic system on a cognitive architecture. I helped incorporate dynamic models of decision making into the architecture. We did some prelimiary work on using the model for path selection. I took second place in a competition among all other graduate interns at ARL based on a paper and presentation. It was nice since I was competing mostly against enigeers, chemists and physicists and the judging panels was made up of the same.