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Steve DiPaola (Interactive Arts and Technology) email: sdipaola@sfu.ca
Computer graphics and simulation; artificial intelligence; modeling
facial, character, expression, emotion and creativity systems.
Mark Blair (Cognitive Science) email: mark_blair@sfu.ca
Concept acquisition, perceptual learning and selective attentionusing both experimental methods and computational modeling.
The development of expertise in adults and children.
Position posted. Candidate in process.
Professor Emeritus
Francis Jeffry Pelletier (Philosophy and Linguistics) email: jeffpell@sfu.ca
Formal semantics; logic and language; cognitive science; Ancient Greek philosophy; automated theorem proving; artificial intelligence.
John Alderete (Linguistics) email: alderete@sfu.ca
Morphology; phonology; computational linguistics; cognitive science.
Holly Andersen (Philosophy) email: holly_andersen@sfu.ca
Causal explanation; awareness and agency; neural mechanisms of temporal representation.
Kathleen Atkins (Philosophy) email: kathleea@sfu.ca
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of the cognitive sciences, self-described as "Theoretical Neuroscience"; present work on colour synaesthesia.
Veronica Dahl (Computing Science) email: veronica@cs.sfu.ca
Logic programming; computational linguistics; deductive knowledge bases.
Jim P. Delgrande (Computing Science) email: jim@cs.sfu.ca
Formal aspects of knowledge representation.
Steve DiPaola (Interactive Arts and Technology) email: sdipaola@sfu.ca
Computer graphics and simulation; artificial intelligence; modeling
facial, character, expression, emotion and creativity systems
Brian Fisher (Interactive Arts and Technology) email: bfisher@sfu.ca
Visual analytics.
Robert F. Hadley (Computing Science) email: hadley@cs.sfu.ca
Cognition; connectionism; reasoning.
Chung-hye Han (Linguistics) email: chunghye@sfu.ca
Syntax; semantics; cognitive science.
Phil Hanson (Philosophy) email: philip_hanson@sfu.ca
Epistemology; metaphysics; philosophy of mind.
Nancy Hedberg (Linguistics) email: hedberg@sfu.ca
Computational linguistics and cognitive science; syntax and semantics.
Tracey Leacock (Faculty of Education) email: tleacock@sfu.ca
Cognition, collaboration and pedagogy in the eLearning environment,faculty development and workflow in eLearning organizations.
Christine MacKenzie (Kinesiology) email: christine_mackenzie@sfu.ca
Modelling of human movement; 3D kinematics and kinetics of human limb movements; human factors and human performance in human-computer interaction.
John Nesbit (Faculty of Education) email: nesbit@sfu.ca
Learning through multimedia and cognitive tools and argumentation, from concept maps and argument maps, and analysis of activity logs and eye-movements.
Phillipe Pasquier (School of Interactive Arts and Technology) email: pasquier@sfu.ca
Building deeper theories for endowing machines with autonomous behaviours, with a focus on creative and artistic applications. See the Metacreation Lab.
F. Jeffry Pelletier, Emeritus (Philosophy and Linguistics) email: jeffpell@sfu.ca
Formal semantics; logic and language; cognitive science; Ancient Greek philosophy; automated theorem proving; artificial intelligence.
Fred Popowich (Computing Science) email: popowich@sfu.ca
Computational linguistics and logic programming.
Bernhard Riecke (School of Interactive Arts and Technology) email: ber1@sfu.ca
Uses immersive virtual environments to study human embodied spatial perception, cognition, and behaviour.
Maite Taboada (Linguistics) email: mtaboada@sfu.ca
Discourse analysis; computational linguistics.
Paul Tupper (Mathematics) email: pft3@sfu.ca
Molecular dynamics, phase field models, phylogenetics, statistical mechanics, stochastic differential equations, mathematical modelling in linguistics.
Yue Wang (Linguistics) email: yuew@sfu.ca
Experimental phonetics, neurolinguisitcs, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition. She directs the Language and Brain Lab.
Phil Winne (Education) email: winne@sfu.ca
Educational psychology; metacognition and self-regulated learning;
software tools that promote learning.
Martin Hahn (Philosophy) email: mhahn@sfu.ca
Philosophy of mind; philosophy of language; history of early analytical
and continental philosophy.
Raymond Jennings (Philosophy) email: jennings@sfu.ca
Modal logic; conditional logic; applied logic; philosophy of language.
Paul McFetridge (Linguistics) email: mcfet@cs.sfu.ca
Morphology; computational linguistics and cognitive science.
David Mitchell (Computing Science) email: mitchell@cs.sfu.ca
Constraint satisfaction; propositional proof complexity; automated reasoning.
Tom Perry (Linguistics) email: perry@sfu.ca
Phonetics and phonology.
Wyn Roberts (Linguistics) email: wyn_roberts@sfu.ca
Phonetics and phonology.
Anoop Sarkar (Computing Science) email: anoop@cs.sfu.ca
Computational linguistics, machine learning, probabilistic grammars and formal language theory.
Oliver Schulte (Computing Science) email: oschulte@cs.sfu.ca
Machine learning; computational logic; computational decision theory.
Eugenia Ternovska (Computing Science) email: ter@cs.sfu.ca
Computational logic.