Dr. Biswas' Research Staff and Graduate Students


Researchers

Dr. John Kinnebrew, Research Associate, ISIS (Educational Data Mining, Metacognition, Learning Environments)

Dr. Maria Mendiburo, Post Doctoral Researcher, ISIS (Learning Environments, Assessments)

Brian Sulcer, Staff Engineer, ISIS (Learning Environments, User Interface Design, Data Analysis)

Current Students

Jonathan Barrett (Games and Teachable Agents)

Satabdi Basu (Simulation-Based Learning Environments)

Joshua Carl (Model-based Design and Diagnosis)

Chetan Kulkarni (Combined Data- and Model-driven approaches to Prognostics and Diagnostics)

Kirk Loretz (Educational Data Mining)

Daniel Mack (Data Mining for Diagnosis)

James Segedy (Teachable Agents)

Graduated Students

Thomas Katzlberger

Thomas has completed his Ph.D. thesis in the area of Intelligent Learning Environments and Teachable Agents. Thomas now works as a Research Manager at Swarco, Inc. in Austria.
Email: thomas.katzlberger@swarco.com

Krittaya Leelawong
Krittaya completed her Ph.D. on the Teachable Agents project, more specifically on Betty's Brain. She is now a Program Coordinator and Lecturer in the Computer Science Division at Mahidol University in Thailand.
Email: kiktaya@vuse.vanderbilt.edu

Rajive Dhingra
Rajive completed his Ph.D. in the area of Management of Technology 2004, working on the design and development of EcoDS, a decision making tool for evaluating alternate processes and products from an environmental viewpoint. His interests are in Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing, and he has worked as an Environmental Researcher at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Email: rdingra@utk.edu

Eric Manders
Eric completed his Ph.D. degree working on statistical methods for fault detection in continuous dynamic systems. He is now a Post Doctoral Associate at ISIS at Vanderbilt University.
Email: manders@vuse.vanderbilt.edu

Sriram Narasimhan
Sriram completed his Ph.D. degree working on methodolgies for diagnosis in hybrid systems. He is now a Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center.
Email: sriram@email.arc.nasa.gov

Cen Li
Cen completed her Ph.D. degree in clustering of temperal data using the Hidden Markov Model (HMM). She is now an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University.
Email: cli@mtsu.edu

Thaddeus Crews

Thad Crews has got his Ph.D. dissertation in Intelligent Learning Environments. Thad placed 2nd in the 1995 Loebner Prize contest for his program submission that carried on a conversation about the OJ Simpson Trial. Thad is an Assistant Professor at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY.
Email: crews@pulsar.cs.wku.edu

Margaret H. Curtin
Margaret Curtin completed her thesis in the area of Management of Technology. Her research involved the development of an Environmentally Conscious decision support system for waste management. A highlight of this work was the combined use of cost and residual risk as metrics for evaluating and ranking different process and product alternatives. Maggie is now a consultant traveling all over the world.
Email: maggie@vuse.vanderbilt.edu

David Hibler
David Hibler received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of South Carolina in 1992. His primary research was in the area of qualitive physics, where he developed a Though Experiment methodology for solving complex physics problems. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is "The Thought Experitment Method: A new approach to qualitative reasoning". He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Computer Science at Christorpher Newport University.
Email: dhibler@pcs.cnu.edu

Ravi Kapadia
Ravi Kapadia completed his Ph.D. Fall 1999. Heworked on on Qualitative Reasoning & Modeling and applied it to diagnosis of engineering systems. He also work on hybrid systems models and their applications in design decision making. Ravi interned at Xerox PARC--summers 1995 and 1996. Currently he is working at Gensym Corp.
Email: ravi@vuse.vanderbilt.edu

Gyesung Lee
Gyesung Lee earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Vanderbilt University in 1994. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Computer & Information Science at Taegue University, Korea. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is "Increasing Reliablity & Efficiency for Knowledge Based Systems".
Email: leegye@cair.kaist.ac.kr

Pieter J. Mosterman
Pieter's primary research interests are in the modeling and analysis of engineering systems. His is working on modeling of dynamic, large-scale, complex physical systems for process monitoring, prediction, and diagnosis. This work is supported by Mitsubishi Research Institute and PNC, Japan. He has also developed a verifiable hybrid modeling scheme for physical systems. Pieter is now a researcher at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the DLR Research Center in Oberpfaffenhoffen, Germany.
Email: pjm@vuse.vanderbilt.edu

Stephen Owens
Stephen Owens worked on research in Intelligent Learning Environments. He is currently employed by a Software development firm in Knoxville, TN.
Email: owens@vuse.vanderbilt.edu

Ann Marie Tharpe
Anne Marie Tharpe received her Ph.D. in Audiology from Vanderbilt University in 1994. She is currently a faculty member in the Bill Wilkerson Center for Hearing and Speech Sciences and School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. The title of her Ph.D. thesis is "A Problem Based Curriculum in a Comuterized Learning Environment for Training in Audiology".

Jerry B. Weinberg
Jerry Weinberg completed his Ph.D. dissertation on Medical Diagnosis in the summer of 1996. Besides having a Master's degree in computer science, he is a registered nurse with a Bachelor's of Nursing degree from Indiana State University. He has over six years clinical experience, specializing in Emergency Nursing. The title of his thesis is "Syndromic Abstraction: Method of Exploiting Domain Structure to focus Abductive Reasoning in Association Based Representations". He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, IL.
Email: jweinbe@siue.edu

Xudong Yu
Xudong Yu received his Ph.D. in computer science from Vanderbilt University in 1992. He is currently a faculty member at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Before that he was on the faculty of Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is "Multi-Level Reasoning and Diagnosis for Complex Continuous Valued Systems".
Email: xyu@mpr.fh.siue.edu


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