Nick Cassimatis

Assistant Professor
Department of Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research | Publications | Background


Research

My research aims to understand and create human-level intelligence.  The work is based on the Polyscheme and Cognitive Substrate theories and is conducted in the Human-Level Intelligence Laboratory.

Publications

Human-Level Intelligence
Reasoning and Inference
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.