Nick Cassimatis

Assistant Professor
Department of Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th St.
Troy, NY 12180
cassin at rpi dot edu
Research | Publications | Background
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Research

My research aims to understand and create human-level intelligence.  Two fundamental principles guide this work.  First, there is a cognitive substrate of multiple inference and representation abilities that can handle reasoning in most or all domains and, second, that the key to implementing this substrate is to develop methods for more flexibly and deeply integrating these reasoning and inference techniques.  Much of this work occurs in the Human-Level-Intelligence Laboratory.

Publications

Reasoning and Inference
Human-Level Intelligence
Cognitive Architecture

Language

Social Cognition
 
Robotics

Miscellaneous

Background

I received a bachelor's degree in mathematics form MIT and a master's degree in psychology from Stanford.  I studied artificial intelligence under Marvin Minsky at the MIT Media Laboratory where I received my Ph.D. in 2002.  I was an NRC postdoctoral associate at the Naval Research Laboratory's AI Center between 2002 and 2004.  I have been an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer since then.