People

 Current Members

 Faculty

 Kenneth D. Forbus

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education

 Staff

 Madeline 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

 Walker Demel

Walker joined QRG in Fall 2021.  His research interests include qualitative reasoning and cognitive architecture.

 William Hancock

Will's research interests include analogical learning and qualitative representations for episodic memories.

 Omar Khater

Omar joined QRG in Fall 2024.

 Xin Lian

Xin joined QRG in Fall 2024.

 Constantine Nakos

Constantine Nakos joined QRG in Fall 2016.  His research interests include natural language processing, text generation, and knowledge representation.  He is currently working on NLG tools for use in QRG projects.

 Taylor Olson

Taylor Olson joined QRG in Fall 2018. His interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence and philosophy. Currently, he is working on creating foundations for learning social and moral norms from natural language.

 Roberto Salas

Roberto joined QRG in Fall of 2021. His research interests include sketch understanding, language understanding, and AI for education

 Wangcheng Xu

Wangcheng joined QRG in Fall of 2021. His research interests include visual understanding, language understanding, and learning to reason

 Jiahong Zheng

Jiahong joined QRG in Fall 2024.

 Zoie Zhao

Zoie joined QRG in Fall 2024.

 Affiliated Faculty

 Dedre Gentner, Professor of Psychology

 Chris Riesbeck, Professor of Computer Science

 Past Visitors

 Tomoya Horiguchi, Kobe University

Visiting Researcher, Fall 2010 through Summer 2011

 Hyeon Kyeong Kim, Hanshin University, Korea

Visiting Professor, 2004-2005

 Frank Leenaars, University of Twente

 Alumni

 Arun Ahuja, Mount Sinai Health System

M.S., 2010

 Julie Baher, Illumina

Ph.D., 2000

James Baker, Tableau Software

M.S., 2006

David Barbella, Earlham College

Ph.D., 2016

 Thomas Bittner, State University of New York at Buffalo

Postdoc, 2000-2002

 

 Christopher Blair, Amazon

M.S. 2012

 Joe Blass

Ph.D. 2023. Joe Blass was a member of Northwestern's JD-PhD program and wants to build scalable, inspectable, comprehensible legal reasoning systems.  His thesis focuses on extracting and applying legal rules from legal precedents; in the past he has worked on modeling commonsense reasoning and moral reasoning.

 Mike Brokowski, University of California, Merced

Postdoc

 Karen Elizabeth Carney, Chicago Friends School

M.S., 2007

Maria Chang, IBM Research

Ph.D., 2016

Vernell Chapman, Instinet

B.S., 2005

 Kezhen Chen

Ph.D., 2021. Kezhen Chen joined QRG in Fall 2016. He is interested in qualitative reasoning in vision and language understanding, spatial reasoning, cognitive modeling and neural-symbolic models.

 John Collins

Ph.D., 1994

 Max Crouse

Ph.D. 2021. Max joined QRG in Fall 2015. His research interests are in building reasoning systems to acquire and handle human levels of knowledge.

 Jonathan Davis, Atypon

M.S., 2010

 Dennis DeCoste, Apple

Ph.D., 1994

 Morteza Dehghani, University of Southern California

Ph.D., December 2009

 Kevin Dill, Lockheed Martin Advanced Simulation Center

M.S., 2001

 Greg Dunham, Microsoft

M.S., 2005

 

 Patricia Dyck, Stratford Managers Corporation

M.S., 2005

 John Everett, Deputy Director, DARPA I2O

Ph.D., 1997

 Brian Falkenhainer, Resonant Software

Ph.D., 1989

 Boi Faltings, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Ph.D., 1987

 Ronald W. Ferguson, Leidos, Inc.

Ph.D., 2001

 Scott Friedman, Smart Information Flow Technologies

Ph.D., June 2012

 

 Daniel Halstead

Ph.D., September 2011

 Tom Hinrichs

Research Associate Professor, retired

 Philip Houk, Peak6

M.S., 2004

 Balasubramanian ("Subu") Kandaswamy

Ph.D., 2016

 Matthew Klenk, Toyoto Research Institute

Ph.D., 2009

 Sven Kuehne, NATO

Ph.D., June 2004

 Chen Liang

Ph.D. 2018, now at Google Brain

 Mukundan Kuthalam

Kate Lockwood, St. Paul Academy and Summit School

Ph.D., December 2009

 Andrew Lovett, US Naval Research Laboratory

Ph.D., June 2012

 Joyce Ma, Exploratorium

Ph.D., June 2001

Clifton McFate, Elemental Cognition

Ph.D. 2018

 Matt McLure

Ph.D., 2019. Matt McLure wants to investigate what it would take for a cognitive architecture to participate in robust concept learning through long-term, multi-modal interaction. To this end, he is particularly interested in active learning techniques, flexible representation schemes, re-representation strategies, and sketch understanding. He has been with QRG since the fall of 2009, and is involved in the Freeciv, Companions, and CogSketch projects.

 Cara J. Meverden, Medium.com

B.S.

 Paul Nielsen, Fulcrum Edge, Inc.

Ph.D., 1988

 Praveen Paritosh, Google

Ph.D., 2007

 Yusuf Pisan, University of Technology Sydney

Ph.D., 1998

 Irina Rabkina

Ph.D. 2020. Irina joined QRG in fall 2015. She is interested in using artificial intelligence techniques to improve our understanding of human cognition, and our understanding of human cognition to improve artificial intelligence techniques. She is currently working on modeling Theory of Mind. 

Danilo Neves Ribeiro, Amazon Science

Ph.D. 2023. Danilo joined QRG in Spring 2017. His research interests include natural language, question answering, knowledge extraction. He wants to explore ideas on how AI system can benefit from data efficient learning methods and continuous learning.

 Abhishek Sharma, Cycorp

Ph.D., 2011

 Nikitas Sgouros, University of Piraeus

Ph.D., 1994

 Emmett Tomai, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Ph.D., December 2009

 Leo C. Ureel II, Michigan Tech

 

 Jon Wetzel, Arizona State University

Ph.D., 2014

 Willie Wilson

 Jin Yan-Staal, SL Capital Partners

M.S., 2006