Ron Sun, Professor

Department of Cognitive Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Current research interests include:

• • Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence in general

  • Cognitive Architectures

  • Learning and Skill Acquisition

  • Cognitive Social Simulation and Multi-Agent Systems

  • Everyday Commonsense Reasoning

  • Computational Studies of Consciousness

  • Connectionist Models and Hybrid Systems

Can Mekik

Department of Cognitive Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Current research interests include:

• • Modeling intelligence tests

  • Cognitive architectures

Nicholas Wilson

Department of Cognitive Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Lead developer for the C++ CLARION Library.

Current research interests include:

• • Computational theories of personality

  • Appraisal theory & emotion

  • Anxiety-induced performance degradation

  • Multi-agent social interaction

  • The interaction between motivation & meta-cognition

  • Episodic memory

  • Theory & engineering of cognitive architectures

Michael Lynch

Department of Language Literature & Communications

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Current research interests include:

• • Interactive Storytelling

    • Especially the design of better game world and story world characters through the use of cognitive architectures

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Games

    • Including the emerging areas of social intelligence, conversational agents, and the modeling of emotion in non-player characters

  • Game Design & Development

  • The History & Culture of Games