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Ashwin Ram
Dr. Ashwin Ram is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College
of Computing of the Georgia
Institute of Technology, an Associate Professor of Cognitive
Science, an Adjunct Professor in the School
of Psychology, and an Adjunct Professor in Department of Math & Computer Science at Emory University.
He is the Director of Georgia Tech's Cognitive Computing Lab and founder of Enkia Corporation, a Georgia Tech spinoff that specializes in commercial artificial intelligence software.
Dr. Ram 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. degree from Yale University for his dissertation on "Question-Driven Understanding: An Integrated Theory of Story Understanding, Memory, and Learning" in 1989. ACADEMIC GENEALOGY Dr. Ram's research interests lie in the areas of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, specifically machine learning, natural language processing, case-based reasoning, educational technology, and artificial intelligence applications. He has more than 100 research publications in these areas. He is a co-editor of a book on Goal-Driven Learning and a book on Understanding Language Understanding: Computational Models of Reading, both published by MIT Press. Dr. Ram is a member of the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, the Human-Centered Computing program, the Intelligent Systems and Cognitive Science groups, and the Robotics & Intelligent Machines center. Dr. Ram's research is/has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA), the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Lab (ARL), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the EduTech Institute, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and Yamaha Motor Corporation.
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