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I have long done research, teaching, and service in artificial intelligence, including machine learning and cognitive modeling. In recent years I have focused on the nexus of computational creativity and sustainability, notably place-based, conservation-oriented AI story telling. My current students are exploring the theory and practice of using and augmenting large language models in pursuit of these applications and others. I am keenly interested in broader impacts of CS research, and broadening participation, for which I think that computational creativity and sustainability have considerable drawing power. I served as an NSF Program Director overseeing AI and ML research funding, as well as contributing to sustainability efforts at NSF, for which I received a Director’s Award for excellence in program management. My experience at NSF is given on the CRA\/CCC blog<\/a>. Courses listed below include AI, computational creativity, computing and the environment, the Ethics of AI, Computation and Cognition, and a favorite service course on the theory of formal languages, automata, and computation, for which I am writing a Wikibook.<\/p>\n

My curriculum vitae<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Advising<\/del><\/h1>\n

Professor Aniruddha Gokhale is now the advisor for CS minors and second majors. Mr. Carter Connolley is assisting him.
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Classes<\/h1>\n

Fall\u00a0 2024<\/h2>\n

CS 3252 and CS 5252 (Theory of Automata, Formal Languages, and Computation)<\/a><\/p>\n

Spring 2024<\/h2>\n

CS 4260 and CS 5260 (Artificial Intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n

CS 3892 (Projects in Computational Sustainability)<\/a><\/p>\n

Fall 2023<\/h2>\n

CS 4260 and CS 5260 (Artificial Intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n

CS 3252 and CS 5252 (Theory of Automata, Formal Languages, and Computation)<\/a><\/p>\n

Spring 2023<\/h2>\n

CS 3891 and CS 5891 (Computational Creativity)<\/a><\/p>\n

CS 3252 and CS 5252 (Theory of Automata, Formal Languages, and Computation)<\/a><\/p>\n

Spring 2020, 2021, 2022<\/h2>\n

CS 4269 Project in Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

Fall 2021<\/h2>\n

CS 3891 Computing and the Environment<\/a><\/p>\n

Spring 2019, 2020<\/h2>\n

University Course The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence<\/a> (with Professor Helen Shin, of English and of Media Studies)<\/p>\n

Fall 2019, 2020<\/h2>\n

CS 8395 Computation and Cognition<\/a><\/p>\n

Fall 2018<\/h2>\n

ES 1115: Vanderbilt and the New Madrid Earthquake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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