Current Memphis Members

Dr. Stan Franklin
Leading and managing the IDA project from its inception, Stan bears major responsibility for it. His primary research interest is in how minds work. The IDA project that allows the modeling of consciousness and cognition in software agents within a real-world domain is perfect for his needs. Stan typically teaches courses on artificial intelligence and on autonomous agents.
Contact: stan.franklin@memphis.edu
Web: http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~franklin/

Dr. Uma Ramamurthy
Uma is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute for Intelligent Systems. Her research interests include modeling perception, conceptual learning, self and memory systems in cognitive software agents.
Contact: urmmrthy@memphis.edu
Web: http://www.uramamurthy.com

Dr. Aregahegn Negatu
Aregahegn has been active member of the IDA project since inception. His research focus and primary responsibility had been the design and/or implementation of IDA's sophisticated and integrated decision making mechanisms: action selection, expectation, automatization, and non-routine problem solving. Besides furthering his work on these mechanisms his future research interest includes modeling of procedural learning for cognitive software agents.
Contact: asnegatu@memphis.edu

Dr. Lee McCauley
Lee has been an active part of the CMattie project from early in its inception and has transitioned into the IDA project. His role for IDA will be an extension of his work on the emotional mechanism in CMattie. Lee sees emotions as evaluation mechanisms for intelligent agents.
Contact: t-mccauley@memphis.edu
Web: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~mccaulet/

Sidney D’Mello
Sidney is working on his PhD in Computer Science. His research interests include cognitive modeling, intelligent environments, and distributed computing. He is currently developing a computational model for a hybrid random access sparse distributed memory to be used as transient episodic memory.
Contact: sdmello@msci.memphis.edu
Web: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~sdmello/

Rodrigo Silva L.
Rodrigo is working on his Doctoral Degree in Computer Science. His
research interests include cognitive computing, cybernetics, robotics, and
bio-inspired computing. He is currently working on the LIDA-AV project,
which attempts to use the LIDA architeture to control an autonomous
vehicle.
Contact: rsilva@memphis.edu
Web: http://umpeople.memphis.edu/rsilva

Vivek V Datla
Vivek is working on his Masters Degree in Computer Science.His research interests include Cognitive computing,AI and Image processing.He is currently working as a software developer for a Domain independant LIDA and as webmaster for the CCRG website.
Contact: vvdatla@memphis.edu

Ryan J. McCall
Ryan is working on his Master's Degree in Applied Computer Science specializing in Cognitive Science. His research interests include Cognitive Modeling and Artificial General Intelligence. He is currently working on implementing theory of mind in LIDA.
Contact: rmccall@memphis.edu

Current External Members

Dr. Bernard Baars
CSRG projects flesh out Baar's Global Workspace theory through computer simulations. Bernie Baars is a cognitive psychologist with experimental publications focused on language and speech production. His major research focus has been on the cognitive neuroscience of conscious functions. His 1988 book A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness (NY: Cambridge University Press) is still the most detailed scientific examination of this notoriously difficult problem.
Contact: baars@nsi.edu
Web: http://www.nsi.edu/users/baars/

Dr. Daniel Dubois
For his Doctoral research (Dr. Franklin acted as external examinator), Daniel has worked with Master students on adding to IDA the required extensions to create CTS, a tutoring agent. With a Bachelor Degree in Theology, Daniel has always shown interests in the human soul, mind, consciousness... and computers. The duo Global Workspace Theory-IDA offered the perfect foundation to explore these. Now, he pursues research and development on various aspects of CTS: Behavior Network, deliberation, genericity, and personnality (including emotional intelligence).
Contact:dani.dubois@gmail.com

Dr. Glenn Colman
Glenn has a PhD in AI, but has spent most of his working career as a self employed software engineer. He is currently working on the LIDA project occasionally in Memphis but mostly in New Zealand. His main research interests in LIDA are procedural memory, action selection and consciousness.
Contact: glenncolman@yahoo.co.nz

David Friedlander
David Friedlander has worked with Dr. Stan Franklin to apply the LIDA model to computer vision. The initial work was targeted towards content based image retrieval for large databases of satellite imagery. His current research involves using the LIDA model for understanding video data. Mr. Friedlander’s primary research interest is Artificial Intelligence based on models of human cognition.
Contact: dsfriedlander@comcast.net

Dr. F. G. Patterson, Jr.
F. G. Patterson, Jr., is on a special assignment from the NASA HQ Office of the Chief Engineer.  He is working as a Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the FedEx Institute of Technology.  With his background in systems theory, computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, he is working with Stan Franklin on his research in "conscious" software agents.
Contact: csrg.fgp@drfgp2.us

Wendell Wallach
Wendell's contribution is focused on how the LIDA architecture might be adapted as a platform for artificial systems capable of making moral decisions. Mr. Wallach is a computer consultant and ethicist
affiliated with the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, where he chairs the Ethics and Technology working research group.
Contact: wendell.wallach@yale.edu

Past Members

Scott Brown
Scott completed the initial implementation of LIDA's Perceptual Associative Memory system. He completed his Master's Degree at the University of Memphis in 2006. He has been working professionally in the software industry since 1998 and is currently the Head of Technology for MicroPlace http://microplace.com , an eBay company.
Contact: scott@rsbrown.net

Ramesh Aitipamula
Contact: raitipml@memphis.edu

Dr. Ashraf Anwar
Ashraf implemented Kanerva’s Sparse Distributed Memory, which serves as the declarative memory module in both CMattie and IDA.
Contact: aanwnr@midsouth.rr.com

Igor Beliaev
Igor is working on his PhD in Computer Science. His research interests include consciousness, neural networks, and Freeman's K-sets.
Contact: bileon@hotmail.com
Web: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~beliaevi/

Dr. Myles Bogner
Myles had the primary responsibility for the design and implementation of CMattie's consciousness module. His work was the first to determine how coalitions of codelets can be formed in software, the algorithm for choosing the most relevant coalition, and the mechanism in which a broadcast can occur to all the other codelets. Myles' consciousness module later became an integral part of IDA.

Upon completion of his doctorate, Myles has focused on the integration of large disparate systems, business-to-business solutions, systems for military deployment, Java and XML web-based interfaces, peer-to-peer architectures, software quality control, and collaboration environments. He has led the development and deployment of large API-based middleware installations on several occasions. Myles has been on the leading edge in developing solutions for a wide range of organizations, including venture-backed clients, medium and large sized corporations, and government agencies.

Myles has been Asynchrony Solutions' Vice President of Research & Development since 2000 and continues to lead many of the company's most significant programs and initiatives.
Contact: dr.myles.bogner@asolutions.com

Deirdre Bolden
Deirdre has a BBA in MIS. She is currently working on her MSBA (Masters of Science Business Administration) Degree with a concentration in MIS..
Contact: dlbolden@memphis.edu

Vani Vamsi Priya Chitupolu
Contact: vanivamsipriya@memphis.edu

Scott Dodson
Contact: sldodson@fedex.com

Dr. Art Graesser
Art Graesser is an authority in cognitive science, text & discourse processing, computational linguistics, and artificial intelligence. He has developed computer software on question answering, intelligent tutoring, and language processing. Art typically teaches graduate courses in cognitive science and undergraduate courses in research methods in psychology.
Contact: a-graesser@memphis.edu
Web: http://mnemosyne.csl.psyc.memphis.edu/home/graesser/

Dr. Arpad Kelemen
Primary among Arpad’s contributions to the IDA project was his design and implementation of IDA’s constraint satisfaction module. He is now an Assistant Professor In the Department of Computer and Information Science at The University of Mississippi
Contact: kelemen@cs.olemiss.edu
Web: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~kelemena/

Ravikumar Kondadadi
Ravi bore major responsibility for the design and implementation of IDA deliberation module.
Contact: ravi@htinc.com

Sarveshwar Reddy Kuncha
Contact: skuncha@memphis.edu

Dr. Chip Ordman
Chip brings in his expertise in communication scheduling and distributed computing to IDA. His teaching has been in database and distributed processing. His research has been in networks and in problems of communication between processes, including scheduling problems.
Contact: edward@ordman.net

Sita  Pulavarti
Sita is working on her Master's Degree in Computer Science. She has recently joined us  as a research assistant.
Contact: spulavrt@memphis.edu

Ramakrishna
Rama will be graduating with his Master’s Degree in Computer Science in Fall 2003. He has recently joined us as a research assistant for the Procedural Learning group which is part of the CSRG.
Contact: rgundpnn@memphis.edu

Yongmin Shan
Yongmin Shan, a faculty member in computer science at Shanxi University in Shanxi, China, joined our team as a visiting researcher for a year beginning at the end of March 2005 (see below) supported by a Chinese government agency. Yongmin has now returned to Shanxi.
Contact: Shanym@sxu.edu.cn

Alexei Stoliartchouk
Contact: stoliara@msci.memphis.edu 
Web: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~stoliara/

Dr. Matthew Ventura
Matthew is a PhD student in Cognitive Experimental Psychology whose research interests include natural language processing, knowledge representation and organization, and information retrieval.
Contact: mventura@memphis.edu

Inactive Members

Dr. Hongjun Song
Dr. Zhaohua Zhang
Sri Satish Ambati
Irina Makkaveeva
Gurumoorthy Nagasubramanian
Brent Olde
Yun Wan

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