Zeming Fang '22

RPI Degree Program: Cognitive Science Ph.D.

Area of Research / Interest:  Humans' learning and decision making

Undergraduate Major:  Psychology, Central China Normal University

Biography:  I am currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the COGS department. I am interested in understanding humans' learning and decision-making with computational modeling techniques.

Jacky Doll

RPI Degree Program: Cognitive Science Ph.D.

Area of Research / Interest:  Intelligent Virtual Agents

Undergraduate Studies:  Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Biography:  My research focuses on understanding group behavior from video content (images, audio, and speech properties). 

Email: dollj@rpi.edu. 

Thomas Ferguson

After receiving a PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York, I spent several years in industry working on the Cyc artificial intelligence project before moving to the data firm Dun & Bradstreet as their principal ontologist. After postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, the University of St.

Yingrui Yang

Yingrui Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science, with a joint appointment in the Lally School of Management & Technology.  Dr. Yang received his doctorate in Experimental Psychology from New York University in 1995.  Since 1974, he also studied or worked at Beijing Normal University, Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), New York University, Princeton University, Educational Testing Service, the United States Air Force Information Laboratory, and Tsinghua University. Dr.

Tomek Strzalkowski

Prof. Tomek Strzalkowski research interests span a wide spectrum of human language technology including computational linguistics and sociolinguistics, socio-behavioral computing, interactive information retrieval, question-answering, human-computer dialogue, serious games, social media analytics, formal semantics, and reversible grammars. He has directed research sponsored by IARPA, DARPA, ARL, AFRL, NSF, the European Commission, NSERC, as well as a number of industry-funded projects. He was involved in IBM’s Jeopardy! Challenge in advanced question answering. Dr.

Sergei Nirenburg

Sergei Nirenburg has worked in the areas of cognitive science, artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) for over 40 years, leading R&D teams of up to 80. His professional interests include developing computational models of human cognitive capabilities and implementing them in hybrid-engine models of societies of human and computer agents; continued development of the theory of ontological semantics; and acquisition and management of knowledge about the world and about language.

Mei Si

Mei Si is primarily interested in is artificial intelligence and its application in virtual and mixed realities. In particular, her research concentrates on computer-aided interactive narratives, embodied conversational agents and pervasive user interface, elements that make virtual environments more engaging and effective. Si has been using her research to develop virtual environments and intelligent conversational agents for serious games.
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