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Ashwin Ram
Associate Professor,
College of Computing
Adjunct Professor,
Cognitive Science
School of Psychology
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Ashwin Ram
is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing and an
Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology. He received his B.Tech. in
Electrical Engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology,
New Delhi, in 1982, and his M.S. in Computer Science from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
in 1984. He received his Ph.D. from
Yale University
for his dissertation on Question-Driven Understanding: An Integrated
Theory of Story Understanding, Memory, and Learning in 1989. His research
interests include artificial intelligence, cognitive science, machine
learning, case-based reasoning, natural language story understanding,
creativity, and education, and he has several research publications in
these areas. He is developing cognitive multimedia systems
for education, training, and aiding based on cognitive science principles
of learning and problem solving. This work is funded by NSF,
ONR, DEC, and EduTech, and leverages off projects
sponsored by AFOSR and
ARL in which he
is investigating the learning theory upon which cognitive multimedia
systems are based. Dr. Ram is a member of the editorial boards of The
Journal of the Learning Sciences and The International Journal of
Applied
Intelligence, and is an Associate Editor of Brain and Behavioral
Sciences.
He recently co-chaired the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society.
Contact information:
Ashwin Ram
Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center
College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280
E-mail: ashwin.ram@cc.gatech.edu
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