Vera A. Kazakova, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Knox College (Galesburg, IL, US)
kazakova.cs @ gmail.com

Welcome to my website.

I do research and I teach CS, and if you are here then maybe you want to look at what I've been up to.
If so, head on over to the "Publications", "Presentations", and "Teaching" tabs above. 

I am also a Visiting Research Scientist at The Institute of Human and Machine Cognition.

I have a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence from the University of Central Florida, under the advisement of Dr. Gita R. Sukthankar.
If you'd like more background, please head over to my LinkedIn profile.

Interests:

- Computer Science Education

-  Nature-inspired Computation

- Multiagent Systems

- Swarm Intelligence

- Data Aggregation

- Evolutionary Computation

- Neural Networks

- Narrative Generation