News Archive

2009

Current— Design & Intelligence Laboratory has two open postdoctoral research scientists positions. One position is in AI Game Playing and Software Agents (the GAIA project) and the other is in AI, Learning Sciences and Educational Technology (the ACT project).

Postdoctoral Research Scientist in AI, Game Playing and Software Agents

The Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing is seeking to fill a postdoctoral research scientist position in AI and Software Agents. This position is part of an NSF funded project: “Teleological Reasoning in Adaptive Software Design.” The focus of the research is on meta-reasoning for self-adaptation in game-playing agents.

Responsibilities: A leadership role in developing and evaluating AI methods for meta-reasoning and self-adaptation in software agents in the context of an interactive environment for game design. This person will be a collaborator on our interdisciplinary research team, and will be fully involved in all aspects of research and scholarship.

Qualifications: PhD in CS (or related discipline). Must have experience with Java-based design and development of AI techniques and intelligent software agents. Successful candidate will have demonstrated ability in research and scholarship in the area of AI and/or intelligent agents for game playing.

Start date: August 17, 2009 (or as soon as possible)

Interested candidates should send a letter of inquiry and CV to Professor Ashok K. Goel (goel@cc.gatech.edu).

Postdoctoral Research Scientist in AI, Learning Sciences and Educational Technology.

The Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing is seeking to fill a postdoctoral research scientist position in CS/AI in Education. This position is part of a three year, Institute of Education Sciences (IES) funded project: “Systems and Cycles: Using Structure-Behavior-Function Thinking as a Conceptual Tool for Understanding Complex Natural Systems in Middle School Science.” This is an inter-disciplinary, inter-university project involving the Graduate School of Education and the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University and the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Responsibilities: The successful applicant will have two main responsibilities: He or she will fill a leadership role in designing and developing a Java-based interactive environment for learning about complex systems in middle schools. He or she will also play a leadership role in introducing and evaluating the learning environment in sciences classes in Atlanta area schools. This individual will be a collaborator on our inter-disciplinary, inter-university research team and will be fully involved in all aspects of research and scholarship.

Qualifications: PhD in CS (or related discipline). Must have experience with design and development of Java-based interactive learning environments, and with the introduction and evaluation of such environments in real settings. Successful candidate will have demonstrated ability in research and scholarship in the area of CS/AI in Education.

Start date: August 1, 2009 (or as soon as possible)

Interested candidates should send a letter of inquiry and CV to Professor Ashok K. Goel (goel@cc.gatech.edu).

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July, 2009— Joshua Jones to defend his Ph.D. Dissertation! Josh will defend his PhD dissertation entitled "Empirically-Based Self-Diagnosis and Repair of Domain Knowledge" on August 13. His thesis committee includes Tom Dietterich, Alex Gray, Charles Isbell and Ashwin Ram, with Ashok Goel as the advisor.

June, 2009— DILAB wins major grant from IES! The US Dept. of Education's Institute for Education Science has awarded a three-year grant entitled “Systems and Cycles: Using Structure-Behavior-Function Thinking as a Conceptual Tool for Understanding Complex Natural Systems in Middle School Science.” This is an inter-disciplinary, inter-university project involving the Graduate School of Education and the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University and the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.

June, 2009— Mathilee Kunda, Keith McGreggor and Ashok Goel's paper "Addressing the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test of 'General' Intelligence," has been accepted for presentation at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Multi-representational Architectures for Human-level Intelligence at MIT in October 2009.

June, 2009— Swaroop Vattam, Michael Helms & Ashok Goel's paper "Nature of Creative Analogies in Biologically Inspired Innovative Design," has been accepted for presentation at the Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Berkeley, California, October 2009.

May 19, 2009— Ashok Goel is giving an invited talk, "Multimodal Case-Based Reasoning," at the 22nd International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS).

May 10, 2009— Josh Jones is attending the Eight International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) in Budapest, Hungary, to present a paper titled, "Metareasoning-Based Adaptation of Agent Classification Knowledge."

May 07, 2009— Maithilee Kunda and Ashok Goel are attending the International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR) in Chicago, IL, to present a poster titled, "Evidence for Thinking in Pictures as a Cognitive Account of Autism."

April 27, 2009— DILAB alum Bill Murdock is playing a central technical role in IBM's plan to enter a computer into the Jeopardy quiz show to compete with human players on TV. His work has been focusing on question understanding (i.e., understanding what a question really is asking) and has achieved an accuracy rate of 60-70% for understanding questions of the kind typically asked on Jeopardy (which is about twice as much as other question understanding systems). Way to go, Bill!

January 15, 2009— Ashok Goel presented DILAB's work on biologically inspired design to the NSF CreativeIT PI Workshop in Washington, DC. A link to Ashok's talk, "Creative Analogies: Learning About and Learning Through Biologically Inspired Design," is available here.