People

Robu, Valentin - Dutch Center for Computer Science. Agents and virtual markets, automated negotiation and auctions, machine learning in stock market prediction.
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~robu/

Elliott, Clark - DePaul University. Affective reasoning, synthetic characters, animated tutoring agents, emotion representation.
http://condor.depaul.edu/~elliott/

Hoos, Holger H. - University of British Columbia. Preference elicitation, dynamic constraint optimization, satisfiability problems in propositional logic, computational musicology.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos

Angele, Jürgen - Ontoprise. Knowledge engineering, domain and task modeling, ontologies, KARL, MIKE, web portals.
http://www.ontoprise.de/members/angele/publications.htm

Tunstall-Pedoe, William - Cambridge, England. Cryptic crossword solving; anagrams; search; computer chess; knowledge representation.
http://www.williamtp.com/

Visser, Ubbo - TZI, University of Bremen. Knowledge representation and processing for the Semantic Web and multiagent systems in dynamic and real time environments.
http://www.tzi.de/~visser/

Wahlster, Wolfgang - Universität des Saarlandes. Multimodal and perceptive user interfaces, user modeling, ambient intelligence, embodied conversational agents, smart navigation systems, semantic web services, and resource-adaptive cognitive technologies, VERMOBIL.
http://www.dfki.de/~wahlster/

Beal, Matthew J. - University at Buffalo, SUNY. Nonparamtric Bayes, bioinformatics, HMMs, probablisitic sensor fusion.
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/mbeal

Ehlert, Patrick - Delft University of Technology. List of projects and publications. Interests in agents and robotics.
http://www.kbs.twi.tudelft.nl/People/Staff/P.A.M.Ehlert/index.html

Saffiotti, Alessandro - Head of the mobile robotics lab at Orebro University, Sweden. Research area: integration of cognition and physical embedding in autonomous robots.
http://aass.oru.se/~asaffio

Conitzer, Vincent - Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Phd Student. Intersection of computer science and game theory, computer science and economics, multiagent systems, automated negotiation and contracting.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/

Schütze, Hinrich - Stanford University. Statistical NLP, text mining, Co-author of "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" with Christopher Manning.
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~schuetze/index.html

Bacchus, Fahiem - University of Toronto. Planning systems, temporal logic, constraint satisfaction problems and formal models.
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fbacchus/

Qu, Yan - Carnegie Mellon University. Information retrieval, extraction and management, natural language processing, Chinese computing, dialog and discourse processing, machine translation, cooperative human-computer interaction.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yqu/

Liu, Jundong - Ohio University. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Medical image analysis, computer vision.
http://ace.cs.ohiou.edu/~liu

Swarup, Samarth - University of Illinois. Cumulative (lifelong, multi-task) learning and evolution of language.
http://www.uiuc.edu/~swarup

Olier, Ivan - Technical University of Catalonia. Unsupervised learning, probabilistic neural network, data mining.
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~iaolier/

Grosz, Barbara - Harvard University. Collaborative planning, SharedPlans model of collaboration, discourse structure, intonation, centering.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/grosz/

Altman, Christopher - Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology. Advanced research and development inititiates at the confluence of quantum mechanics and information science: superconducting quantum computing, superposed adaptive quantum networks.
http://altman.casimirinstitute.net/

Schoppek, Wolfgang - University of Bayreuth, Bavaria. Cognitive modeling, ACT-R models, causal induction.
http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/psychologie/schoppek/

Jacob, Christian - University of Calgary. Emergent computing in biological networks, collective intelligence, swarm intelligence, genetic algorihms, genome programming.
http://www2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jacob/

Kadri, Faisal - Affective computing, computational models of human emotion.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/flkadri/Index.html

Charniak, Eugene - Brown University. Part-of-speech tagging, probabilistic context-free grammar induction, syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic parsing, and lexical resource acquisition through statistical means.
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/ec/

Musick, Ron - iKuni Inc. Automated induction, machine learning, and scientific data management.
http://home.comcast.net/~crmusick/

Novick, David - University of Texas at El Paso. Department of Computer Science Chair. Spoken dialog models, mediated communication, user interface development methodologies.
http://www.cs.utep.edu/novick/

Rudnicky, Alex - Carnegie Mellon University. Speech recognition, CMU Communicator, dialog systems, speech agents.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/air/WWW/HomePage.html

Guinn, Curry I. - University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Natural language processing, spoken dialog systems, conversational agents, affective computing.
http://people.uncw.edu/guinnc

Forbus, Kenneth - Northwestern University. Qualitative physics, spatial reasoning, cognitive simulation of analogical processing.
http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~forbus/index.html

Cer, Daniel - University of Colorado - Boulder. Acoustic and lexical features of emphatic speech.
http://cer.freeshell.org

Popple, James - Australian National University. Legal expert systems.
http://cs.anu.edu.au/~James.Popple/

Green, Nancy - University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Intelligent multimdedia presentation systems, argumentation models, automatic generation of textual summaries of graphs, interactive narrative, conversation agents, user modeling.
http://www.uncg.edu/~nlgreen/

Nebel, Bernhard - Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. Professor. Knowledge representation, planning, and robotics, with an emphasis on robotic soccer.
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~nebel/

Meila, Marina - University of Washington. Machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, graphical probability models, tree belief networks and mixtures of trees, maximum entropy discrimination, spectral clustering and image segmentation.
http://www.stat.washington.edu/mmp/

Blum, Avrim - Carnegie Mellon University. Interests include machine learning, approximation algorithms, on-line algorithms and planning systems. Online publications and talks.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/

Harper, Mary - Purdue University. National Science Foundation. Integrating natural language and speech processing, prosodic analysis, statistical parsing, gesture and speech.
http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~harper/

Jacob, Rob - Tufts University. Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces, virtual environments, eye-gaze tracking.
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jacob/

Vasishth, Shravan - University of Potsdam. Abductive Inference Model, Hindi sentence processing, wide-coverage theories of sentence processing.
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/

Guvenir, H. Altay - Bilkent University. Machine learning, data mining, and computer-aided language learning.
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~guvenir

Jacobs, Paul - Jake Technologies. Natural language processing, research, consulting and entrepreneurship.
http://www.jaketech.com/pages/4/index.htm

Pan, Jeffrey Junfeng - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Data mining, machine learning, optimization, mobile computing and information retrieval.
http://www.cs.ust.hk/~panjf/

Allen, James F. - University of Rochester. Natural language understanding, discourse, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning and planning.
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/users/faculty/james/

Tack, Werner H. - Universität des Saarlandes. ACT-R cognitive modeling.
http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak5/cmm/tack.htm

Litman, Diane J. - University of Pittsburgh. Spoken dialogue for intelligent tutoring systems, reinforcement learning for optimizing spoken dialogue agents, prosodic analysis of misrecognitions and corrections, plan recognition.
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~litman/

Greening, Dan R. - CEO BigTribe. Entrepreneur and researcher. Personalization, collaborative filtering, computer-supported cooperative work, ubiquitous computing, simulated annealing, distributed computing, social psychology.
http://dan.greening.name

Pelikan, Martin - Director of the Missouri Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Laboratory (MEDAL), University of Missouri in St. Louis. Research interests: Evolutionary computation, Bayesian networks, machine learning.
http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~pelikan/

Galassi, Ugo - University of Eastern Piedmont. User profiling, hierarchical HMMs, learning regular expressions.
http://www.ugogalassi.net

Léauté, Thomas - European Space Agency. Agile systems, temporal planning.
http://homepage.mac.com/thomas.leaute/index.html

Kamovich, Aliaksander - Minsk, Belarus. Automatic image stitching, target tracking, ICA and PCA compression
http://kamovich.googlepages.com/

Branting, L. Karl - LiveWire Logic, Inc. Empirical methods of natural language processing, case-based reasoning, AI and law, ecological and environmental applications of AI.
http://www.karlbranting.net

Conati, Cristina - University of British Columbia. User modeling, emotionally intelligent agents, adaptive user interfaces, Bayesian network student models.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~conati/

Szalas, Andrzej - College of Economics and Computer Science, Olsztyn, Poland. Unmanned aerial vehicles. Autonomous systems.
http://www.ida.liu.se/~andsz/

Fournier-Viger, Philippe - University of Quebec at Montreal. Learning objects, cognitive modelling, virtual learning environments and intelligent tutoring systems.
http://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com

van Delden, Sebastian - University of Central Florida. Partial parsing, natural language information retrieval systems, learning WordNet-based classification rules.
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~sdelden

Carpenter, Julie - University of Washington (Educational Psychology/Learning Sciences/LIFE Center). Human-robot attachment; robot-human interaction in stressful conditions, especially in dyad teamwork or collaborative situations.
http://www.jgcarpenter.com/

Pietruszkiewicz, Wieslaw - Szczecin Technical University (Poland). Machine learning and knowledge (data) mining, optimal (kalman) filtering, expert and decision support systems.
http://www.pietruszkiewicz.com

Kulbacki, Marek - Polish Academy of Sciences. Vulcan. Machine Learning, realistic human motion modeling.
http://mka.vulcan.pl

Lester, James - North Carolina State University. Intellimedia initiative, animated pedagogical agents, 3D learning environments, natural language generation.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lester/imedia/james.html

McGuinness, Deborah - Researcher in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Systems. Co-designer and developer of CLASSIC and Chimaera among others. Associate Director of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/

Sure, York - University of Karlsruhe. Semantic web, OntoWeb, distributed knowledge, collaborative ontology, knowledge retrieval.
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu/

Staab, Steffen - Research topics: semantic web, knowledge management, and natural language processing. List of his publications, projects, courses taught, contact information.
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~staab/

Faltings, Boi - Director of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, EPFL, President of Swiss AI Society. Software agents, constraint-based reasoning, case-based reasoning.
http://liawww.epfl.ch/~faltings

Biermann, Alan W. - Duke University. Computational linguistics, automatic programming and inference.
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~awb

Kamali, Mahsa - Amirkabir University of Technology. Facial image analysis and synthesis, gesture recognition, emotion modeling.
http://www.geocities.com/mahsa_kamali/

Koenig, Sven - University of Southern California. Decision making, situated agents, distributed agents.
http://idm-lab.org/

Harmelen, Frank van - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Approximate reasoning, medical protocols, semantic web, specification languages for KBS.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/

Zillman, Marcus P. - Creator/Founder BotSpot.com, Executive Director Virtual Private Library
http://www.zillman.us

Freeman, Richard - University of Manchester. Machine learning, knowledge management, data visualization, artificial intelligence and neural networks.
http://www.rfreeman.net

Reitter, David - University of Edinburgh. Multimodal systems, natural language generation, structural priming/alignment in dialogue, rhetorical analysis.
http://www.david-reitter.com/compling/

Tagliarini, Gene - University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Classification of sonar returns, fingerprint matching, image compression, and constraint satisfaction.
http://people.uncw.edu/tagliarinig/home.htm

Katirai, Hooman - MIT. Machine learning applied to medicine, text management, and computational linguistics.
http://www.mit.edu/~hooman/

Terveen, Loren - University of Minnesota. Computer-mediated communication, social data mining, computer-supported cooperative work, recommender system.
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~terveen/

Strens, Malcolm - QinetiQ. Reinforcement learning and image target tracking.
http://strens.com

Parsons, Lance - Arizona State University. Data mining, unsupervised learning, bioinformatics.
http://www.public.asu.edu/~lparsons/

McTear, Mike - University of Ulster at Jordanstown. Dialogue modelling, natural language processing, computational linguistics, user modelling.
http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~cbdg23/

Jurafsky, Dan - University of Colorado, Boulder. Latent semantic analysis, stochastic context-free grammars, pronunciation modeling, discourse tagging, bayesian models of sentence processing, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with James H. Martin.
http://www.colorado.edu/ling/jurafsky/

Picard, Rosalind - MIT. Affective computing, texture and pattern modeling, video and image browsing, retrieval and annotation.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~picard/

Raina, Rajat - Stanford University. Question answering systems, machine learning, probabilistic models, robotics.
http://www.stanford.edu/~rajatr

Schubert, Johan - Research on belief functions, clustering, neural networks, fusion. Defense Research Establishment.
http://www.foa.se/fusion/

Danescu, Radu - Technical University of Cluj. Image processing, stereovision, intelligent vehicles.
http://users.utcluj.ro/~rdanescu

Dror, Gideon - Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo. Text categorization, machine learning applications in bioinformatics, medicine, machine vision and high energy physics, feature selection for categorization and regression problems, artificial neural networks.
http://www2.mta.ac.il/~gideon/

Simon, Herbert A. - Late Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. One of the founders of Artificial Intelligence. Research mainly in modeling and simulation of human cognition.
http://www.psy.cmu.edu/psy/faculty/hsimon/hsimon.html

Roweis, Sam - University of Toronto. Researcher in pattern recognition, neural networks, artificial intelligence.
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~roweis/

Teuscher, Christof - C.V., list of awards, publications, memberships, projects, and conferences. Interests in neural networks.
http://www.teuscher.ch/christof

Clough, Paul D. - University of Sheffield. Information retrieval.
http://ir.shef.ac.uk/cloughie/index.html

Xu, Ke - Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Design and analysis of algorithms, phase transitions, logic programming, data mining.
http://www.nlsde.buaa.edu.cn/~kexu

Powers, David - The Flinders University of South Australia. Natural language learning, unsupervised learning, data mining, home automation, web search.
http://members.dodo.com.au/~powers/

Goyal, Ram Dayal - Intigma India. Data mining, natural language processing, data mining, neural networks, image processing.
http://www.rdgoyal.freehomepage.com

Makris, Dimitrios - Kingston University. Senior lecturer and member of the Digital Imaging Research Centre. Research in 3D pose recovery, motion analysis and multi-camera tracking.
http://staffnet.kingston.ac.uk/~ku32195/

Konik, Tolga - University of Michigan AI Lab, Ph.D. student, machine learning, learning by observation, qualitative reasoning.
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~konik/

Alkhalifa, Eshaa - University of Bahrain. Multimedia adaptable intelligent tutoring systems, student modeling, cognitive style.
http://www.silvertair.com

Moore, Johanna D. - University of Edinburgh. Computational modeling of tutorial dialogue, multimedia explanation, integrated techniques for interpretation and generation, patient education.
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~jmoore/

Seneff, Stephanie - MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Phonological modelling, auditory modelling, computer speech recognition, statistical language modelling, natural language understanding and generation, discourse and dialogue modelling, and prosodic analysis.
http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/people/seneff.shtml

Chiang, Yao-Yi - Geosemble Technologies. Computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, geospatial information integration.
http://www.yoyoi.info

Turney, Peter D. - Interactive Information Group, National Research Council of Canada. Machine learning applied to natural language processing, lexical semantics from web mining, artificial life.
http://www.apperceptual.com/

Peshkin, Leon - Harvard Medical School. Systems Biology. Baysian information extraction, reinforcement learning, text summarization.
http://www.csail.mit.edu/~pesha

Brachman, Ron - Director of the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) at DARPA. Knowledge representation, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing.
http://www.brachman.org/

Chachra, Sumit - University of Arizona. Document analysis, biometrics, image retrieval, autonomic computing.
http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~chachra

McDermott, Drew - Includes work in logic, planning, and robotics, also known for his blunt public appraisals of the state of AI research. Interviewed in Crossroads, the student magazine of the ACM.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-1/interview.html

Carroll, John A. - University of Sussex. Natural language parsing, acquisition of lexical information from text, automatic generation of text from semantic representations.
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/carroll/

Cassell, Justine - MIT Media Lab. Gesture and narrative language, animated agents, intonation, facial expression, computer vision.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~justine/

Norvig, Peter - Artificial Intelligence, natural language, Lisp and Java in AI. Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center.
http://www.norvig.com

Wilks, Yorick - University of Sheffield. Computational pragmatics, belief modeling, lexicons, information extraction.
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick/

Monz, Christof - Research interests: Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Automated Deduction. Site lists on-line publications, projects, activities, and contact info.
http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~christof/

Ward, Karen - University of Texas at El Paso. Acknowledgments in human-computer interaction, multimodal interfaces, speech acts.
http://www.cs.utep.edu/kward/

Riazanov, Alexandre - Computer Scientist and Software Developer. Research interests: Automated Reasoning, Theorem Prover Vampire, Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing.
http://www.freewebs.com/riazanov/

Lisetti, Christine - University of Central Florida. Emotional intelligence, computational models of emotions and affective processes, affective computing.
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~lisetti/

Finn, Aidan - School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin. Automated information extraction using convergent boundary classification, machine learning for automatic genre classification, active learning for information extraction.
http://www.aidanf.net

Thaler, Stephen - Researcher into neural networks and creativity.
http://www.imagination-engines.com/thaler.htm

Koduru, Praveen - Memetic algorithms for multiobjective optimization.
http://www.pkoduru.com

Liu, Hugo - MIT Media Laboratory. Philosophically motivated AI, commonsense reasoning, aesthetics and AI, assistive software agents, lexical semantics, story understanding.
http://larifari.org/

Benjamin, D. Paul - Pace University. Problem decomposition and theory reformulation, integrated cognitive architectures for autonomous robots, distributed constraint satisfaction problems, semigroup theory and dynamical systems, category theory in software design.
http://csis.pace.edu/~benjamin/

Pinheiro da Silva, Paulo - Stanford University. Explanations for semantic web tasks, semantic web tools and infrastructure, model-based user interfaces, formal specification and verification of interactive systems.
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/pp/

Bunt, Andrea - University of British Columbia. User modeling, adaptive interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bunt/

Goel, Ashok K. - Georgia Tech. Knowledge-based reasoning and learning, design cognition and computing, creativity, self-adaptation.
http://home.cc.gatech.edu/dil/3

Lambert, Lynn - Christopher Newport University. Natural language processing, planning and plan recognition, belief models, negotiation.
http://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~lambert/

Miller, Tristan - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management Group. Computational linguistics, automatic summarization, information retrieval, latent semantic analysis, computers and society.
http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~miller/

van Schooten, Boris - University of Twente. Interaction models in (spoken) dialogue systems, specification techniques and multimodal systems and virtual environments, multiagent virtual environments.
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schooten/

van Beek, Peter - University of Waterloo. Constraint programming, compiler optimization, and scheduling.
http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/~vanbeek/

Konieczny, Lars - Institute of Computer Science and Social Research. Psycholinguistics, sentence comprehension, cognitive parsing, ACT-R.
http://cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de/team/members/konieczny/konieczny.htm

Taatgen, Niels - University of Groningen. Cognition, ACT-R, learning rules and productions.
http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels/

Loui, Ronald - Washington University in St. Louis. AI and the law, models of negotiation, modeling legal argument.
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~loui/

Clancey, William J. - NASA/Ames Research Center. Brahms multiagent simulation system, situated cognition, Haughton-Mars Project, human-centered computing.
http://homepage.mac.com/WJClancey/~WJClancey/

Bahlmann, Claus - Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, On-line handwriting recognition.
http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/bahlmann/index.en.html

Carberry, Sandra - University of Delaware. Department of Computer and Information Sciences Chair. Computational linguistics, dialog systems, machine learning, planning and plan recognition, medical informatics, user modeling.
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/

Gini, Maria - University of Minnesota. Distributed intelligence, cooperation of miniature robots, robot navigation, multi-agent systems for e-commerce and supply-chain, economic agents.
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~gini

Vu, Xuan-Ha - Has a degree from Swiss Federal Institutue of Technology, but now holds a postdoc position at Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland. Research interests include constraint satisfaction.
http://4c.ucc.ie/~xuanha/

Pennock, David M. - Yahoo! Research Labs. Electronic commerce, internet statistics, uncertain reasoning, decision theory, market approaches to group coordination, multiagent systems.
http://dpennock.com/

Alam, Shah Jamal - German Research Center for AI (DFKI). Intelligent tutoring systems, social organizations in MAS, family (Eastern) dynamics.
http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~alam

Airoldi, Edoardo - Carnegie Mellon. Euclidean, differential or algebraic geometrical intuitions underlying statistical models and algorithms. Discrete mathematics and sequential models. Applications to textual data, biological sequences, communication networks and privacy.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eairoldi/

Grasso, Floriana - University of Liverpool. Computational models of natural argument, affective natural language generation, conflict resolution.
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/

Treur, Jan - professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Research interests include multi-agent systems, compositional modelling, temporal semantics, common sense and nonmonotonic reasoning.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~treur/

Furcy, David - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Heuristic search, planning and re-planning, reinforcement learning.
http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/furcyd/

Vyas, Amrish - University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Intelligent agents in eBusiness, adaptive agents.
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~amrish1/home.htm

Massa, Paolo - Phd student at Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) in Italy.
http://sra.itc.it/people/massa/index.html

Funge, John - iKuni, Inc. Game AI, machine learning, and knowledge representation.
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~funge/

Di Eugenio, Barbara - University of Illinois at Chicago. Interpretation and generation of instructional text, computational models of tutorial dialogue, modeling collaboration in human-human and computer-human dialogues, referential expressions.
http://www.cs.uic.edu/~bdieugen/

Carreras, Xavier - Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, PhD student, machine learning, natural language processing.
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~carreras/

Ketter, Wolfgang - University of Minnesota. Computer science and economics, multiagent systems, automated negotiation and contracting.
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~ketter/

Hearst, Marti - University of California at Berkeley. Data mining, information retrieval, user interfaces, web search.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/

Lin, Fan - Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Maryland University, machine learning, data mining. Ph.D. student.
http://www.lfan.net/

Martin, James - University of Colorado, Boulder. Empirical metaphor research, latent semantic analysis, information retrieval, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with Dan Jurafsky.
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/

Littman, Michael - Rutgers. Planning under uncertainty, markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, latent semantic indexing, text retrieval.
http://athos.rutgers.edu/~mlittman/

Zhuang, Rick - Pennsylvania State University. Web information retrival, web usage mining, search engines, semantic web.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/z/x/zxz127/

Delord, Christophe - ENSEEIHT, France, Computer Science engineer, Artificial Intelligence (dialogue simulation, speech acts, PROLOG), Python, lexical and syntactic parsing.
http://christophe.delord.free.fr

Honavar, Vasant - Iowa State University. Machine learning, intelligent agents, information integration, probabilistic models, and bioinformatics and computational biology.
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/

Chavez, Guillermo Camara - Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Pattern recognition, invariante pattern recognition, neural networks, image content-base retrieval, digital image processing, computer vision.
http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~gcamarac

Dyke, James - University of Sussex. Daisyworld, gaia, mep, artificial life, theoretical biology, robotics and evolutionary theory.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/jgd20/

Manning, Christopher - Stanford University. Probabilistic parsing, grammar induction, text categorization and clustering, electronic dictionaries, information extraction and presentation, and linguistic typology.
http://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/

Pellier, Damien - CRIP5 - Paris 5 Laboratory. Multi-agent systems, planning and scheduling, distributed problem solving, cooperative robotics.
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~pellier/

Zytnicki, Matthias - INRA Toulouse. Bioinformatics, weighted constraint satisfaction problems, non-coding RNAs.
http://www.inra.fr/internet/Departements/MIA/T/zytnicki/

Frasconi, Paolo - Università di Firenze. Machine learning for sequential and structured data, bioinformatics, text and natural language, pattern recognition.
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo

Mantaras, Ramon Lopez de - Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the CSIC. AI and music, qualitative approaches to landmark-based robot navigation.
http://www.iiia.csic.es/~mantaras

Planes, Jordi - Escola Universitària Politècnica. Max-SAT, smart cards.
http://fermat.eps.udl.es/~jordi/

Mitrovic, Nikola - University of Zaragoza. Ph.D. student. Mobile agents, intelligent user interfaces, adaptive user interfaces, mobile applications.
http://www.cps.unizar.es/~mitrovic

Zhou, Yujian - Illinois Institute of Technology. Ph.D. student, Adaptive tutoring, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining.
http://www.iit.edu/~zhouyuj/

Traum, David R. - USC Instititue for Creative Technology. Discourse structure. Grounding in discourse. Dialog and virtual reality agents.
http://www.ict.usc.edu/~traum/

Haller, Susan - University of Wisconsin - Park. Natural language processing, interactive discourse, text planning, intelligent tutoring systems.
http://cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller/

Kurban, Rifat - Erciyes University. Artificial neural networks, speech processing, digital signal processing, speaker recognition, image processing.
http://www.rifatkurban.name.tr

Hayes-Roth, Barbara - Stanford University. Extempo Systems. Intelligent interactive characters, interactive story telling, adaptive intelligent agents.
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/people/bhr/

McRoy, Susan - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dialog theory, natural language generation, argumentation theory, intelligent tutoring systems.
http://www.cs.uwm.edu/faculty/mcroy/

Horvitz, Eric - Microsoft Research. Decision theory, reasoning systems, user modeling, reasoning under uncertainty.
http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/

Walker, Marilyn A. - University of Sheffield. Natural language processing, specifically in spoken dialogue systems, machine learning in dialogue, spoken language generation, multimodal human-computer interaction, and evaluation of dialogue systems.
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~walker/

Airoldi, Edoardo - Princeton University. Statistical (Bayesian) elements of graph theory. Data analysis of complex and dynamic networks in the social and biological sciences. Overview of publications and activities.
http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/~eairoldi/

Pizzuti, Stefano - ENEA. Evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logic based systems, evolutionary neural networks. Application to financial and energy industrial problems.
http://home.tele2.it/stefanopizzuti/

McCoy, Kathleen - University of Delaware. Rehabilitation engineering, writing tool for American Sign Language, natural language generation, text summarization, graph summarization.
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mccoy/

Roberts, Steve - Oxford. Robotics Research Group. Machine learning, Bayesian learning, data-driven inference, signal and image processing, bioinformatics, computational and mathematical biology.
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~sjrob

Robertson, Neil - Oxford University. Computer vision, visual surveillance, video annotation.
http://emfs1.eps.hw.ac.uk/~nmr3/

Lavoie, Benoit - University of Quebec at Montreal. Intelligent tutoring systems, semantic web, question-answer systems, translation, natural language generation.
http://www.benoit-lavoie.ca

Smith, Ronnie W. - East Carolina University. Spoken natural language dialog systems, dialog repairs, mixed-initiative, adaptive user interfaces.
http://www.cs.ecu.edu/~rws/

Sastry, Kumara - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. student. Genetic algorithms, competent GAs and efficiency-enhancement techniques with application in material sciences.
http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/

Geczy, Peter - RIKEN Brain Science Institute. Neural networks, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, fuzzy logic, rule acquisition, rule extraction from neural networks, Autonomous Connectionistic Engine (ACE), neural network resources.
http://www.brain.riken.jp/labs/mns/geczy/

Krogt, Roman van der - Post-doctoral researcher at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C). Working on multiagent planning methods as well as scheduling for manufacturing.
http://roman.vanderkrogt.org/

Dorst, Leo - University of Amsterdam. Applications of geometric (Clifford) algebra, exploration, reasoning with uncertainty in robotics.
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~leo/

Cortes, Nareli Cruz - CINVESTAV-IPN. Artificial immune system optimization, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation.
http://computacion.cs.cinvestav.mx/~nareli

Weerdt, Mathijs de - Researcher in multi-agent planning at Delft University of Technology. Tutorial on multi-agent planning, list of own publications and publications related to distributed AI.
http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~mathijs

Sayan, Ömer Fatih - University of Osnabrück. Emotion recognition, emotive behavior, mental models, unconscious processes, rule- and pattern-based mechanisms.
http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~osayan/

Hotho, Andreas - University of Karlsruhe, AIFB. Text, data and web mining especially in text clustering, semantic web mining, knowledge management.
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/aho/

Dorigo, Marco - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Research projects in Ant algorithms, metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization, robot shaping and behavior engineering.
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/