David C. Wilkins

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My research area within Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science is computational models of human learning, decision making, and expertise. My research specialty is interactive learning environments, especially apprenticeship learning systems for learning and teaching expert decision making. My research grants in this area almost always involve faculty collaborators from Psychology, Computer Science, or Linguistics. My current affiliations at Stanford are with the Symbolic Systems Program, which focuses on a Science of the Mind; the Cognitive Systems Laboratory in the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), and the Stanford Center for Creativity in the Arts (SICa), where I serve on an Advisory committee. I have a senior research affiliate position at the Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise (ISLE) in Palo Alto.

Prior to returning to Stanford, I was on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1988-2005, with faculty appointments in Computer Science, Psychology, Aviation Institute, and Beckman Institute. I received my Ph.D. from University of Michigan in 1987. My Ph.D. dissertation research was carried out in the Department of Computer Science at  Stanford University between 1982-1987.

Research Projects: Interactive Learning Environments
     Apprenticeship Learning Systems: Learning by Natural Instruction (with David Fried) 
     Learning Methods to Improve Brain Function in Pediatric Psychiatry (with Victor Carrion)
     Learning to Recognize Facial Emotions: Art and  Psychology (with Antonio Hardan)
 
Research Projects: Models of Human Learning
     Child Language Learning: Semantic Bootstrapping (with Sheldon Nicholl)
     Learning for Natural Language Story Comprehension (with Eugene Grois)
     Learning Speed Curves: Prediction of Average Case Performance (with Carl Kadie)
    
Teaching
     Symsys 210: Learning Facial Emotions: Art and Psychology (with Pam Davis Kivelson)
     Symsys 190: Senior Honors     Symsys 196: Independent Study

Publications, in PDF format
     Chronological      Selected     By Subject Area
     Readings in Knowledge Acquisition and Learning (book with Bruce Buchanan)
       
Research Group, Knowledge Based Systems (KBS), Archival Information
     Members
     Ph.D Dissertations and M.S. Theses
     Academic Genealogy  (produced by Haym Hirsh and Vadim Bulitko)