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Jinrong Li

Education

PhD student, Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

MS, Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/ New York University BS, Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University

Current Research & Projects

  • Using innovative technologies to study cognition, the future of computer programming languages and education.
  • Building an interactive, theorem prover-based computer systems for geometry, logic and other math education purposes.
  • Exploring effective methods and integrated tools to conduct analytic studies of student enrollment, faculty workload and other targeted academic areas, such as student retention, tuition policies, and institutional peer performance and financial analysis systems.

Past Research Projects:

  • Computational modeling of human three-dimensional visual perception.
  • Study of combination of multiple consistent and inconsistent depth cues.
  • New generation of languages and an application programming generator

Contact

Department of Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy NY 12180

or
State University of New York
SUNY Plaza
Albany, New York 12246
Phone: (518) 443-5636
Fax: (518) 443-5632
Email: jinrong.li@suny.edu
RAIR Lab News

"Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities of a Child" Presentation
March 10, 2008

At a recent conference on artificial intelligence, a group of researcher lead by Selmer Bringsjord unveiled the "embodiment" of their success to date: "Eddie," a 4-year-old child in Second Life who can reason about his own beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches human children his age.
RPI Press Release
Science Daily
Virtual World News


"Provability-Based Semantic Interoperability via Translation Graphs" Presentation
November 6, 2007

RAIR Lab researchers headed to New Zealand in November to present Provability-Based Semantic Interoperability via Translation Graphs at the International Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web (ONISW 2007). The ONISW2007 paper introduced the translation graph as a formal method for enabling semantic interoperability between systems on the Semantic Web.

Micah Clark presented at NA-CAP 2007
July 26, 2007

RAIR Lab researcher Micah Clark presented Toward the Lying Machine at the 2007 North American Computers and Philosophy (NA-CAP 2007) Conference. The paper lays the foundation for a future lying machine that manipulates human beliefs through psychologically persuasive sophistic lies.

Selmer Bringsjord receives NSF Award
July 20, 2007

Selmer Bringsjord, Nick Webb and other researchers received a National Science Foundation award to research Social Robotics. The Team proposes to use Social Robotics as a mechanism to deliver a revitalized Computer Science (CS) education.

Deepa Mukherjee presented at ICAI .07
June 28, 2007

RAIR lab researcher Deepa Mukherjee attended the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI .07) from June 25 - 28, 2007 and presented a paper titled The Multi-Mind Effect. The paper shows that while individuals cannot solve problems that require context-independent reasoning, groups of individuals can often solve such problems, and leads the toward the goal of teaching humans to reason more powerfully, and the goal of engineering groups of computers with greater reasoning power than what any particular machine can muster today.