Researcher

• I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, working with Jay McClelland. I am also doing some work with Jonathan Cohen.

• My curriculum vitae is available electronically in HTML, PostScript, and PDF formats.

• I received my PhD in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). My thesis advisor was Gary Cottrell.

• My research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive modeling using connectionist techniques. I am particularly interested in modeling "high level" cognitive processes using "low level" artificial neural network models. My current research is focused on connectionist models of rule guided behavior and learning from direct instruction.

• My office is 116B in the basement of the Mellon Institute.

• I plan to attend a number of technical conferences this year, including:
  • The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

• I am a member of several professional organizations, including:
  • The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • The American Psychological Association (APA)
  • The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the ACM's SIGART
  • The Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • The Cognitive Science Society
  • The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the IEEE's Computer Society
  • The Psychonomic Society

• I am always searching for research funding from such organizations as:
  • The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • The National Science Foundation (NSF)

• I maintain a short list of other WWW sites related to my research.

• I taught the Introduction to Parallel Distributed Processing course in the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Psychology during the Spring of 1999.

• I organized the Cognitive Science 200 Seminar during Spring, 1997. This seminar focused on the book, Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition

• I have collected together some introductory materials on using LaTeX 2e, focusing particularly on the software environment found in the UCSD Computer Science Department.

• I once gave a brief tutorial on UNIX|STAT. The slides for this talk, in GNU Zipped PostScript format are available online.