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Andrew S. Gordonمشاهده پروفایل

دانشگاهی

• Interactive Narrative
• Commonsense Reasoning
• Computational Models of Narrative
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Andrew S. Gordon is a Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California and Director of Interactive Narrative Research at the Institute for Creative Technologies. His work integrates artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and interactive storytelling to create systems that automatically interpret and generate narrative structures, with a special focus on commonsense reasoning and abductive inference. Education Ph.D. in Computer Science, Northwestern University, 1999 Research Interests Gordon’s research converges on computational narrative intelligence . He develops formal models of commonsense psychology that enable machines to reason about human intentions, beliefs, and emotions. His group designs interactive narrative systems for training and education, builds large-scale story corpora, and pioneers abductive reasoning techniques that combine symbolic logic and statistical learning to interpret temporal data. Recent work explores how large language models can be guided to co-create interactive fiction and how vision–language models can be benchmarked for causal understanding. Publication Trends Across more than two decades, his publications reveal consistent themes: (1) foundational theories of commonsense psychology and strategy representation, (2) narrative technologies that blend AI planning with human creativity, and (3) practical training simulations for defense and education. The 2024-2025 papers highlight a pivot toward evaluating and steering large language models for narrative tasks, while earlier work established abductive reasoning frameworks such as “Etcetera Abduction.” Awards & Honors Best Paper Award, System Lifecycle and Technologies Track, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SIW 2021) Advising & Grants He has successfully mentored three PhD students—Reid Swanson (2010), Christopher Wienberg (2017), and Melissa Roemmele (2018)—whose dissertations span computational narrative, commonsense reasoning, and interactive fiction. His research has been continuously supported by agencies including the U.S. Army, DARPA, and NSF for projects on virtual training environments, narrative-centered learning, and large-scale commonsense knowledge acquisition. Labs & Teams Gordon directs the Interactive Narrative Research Group at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, where interdisciplinary teams of computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, and interactive media designers collaborate on systems such as the Rapid Integration & Development Environment (RIDE) for embodied conversational agents and story-driven training simulations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Probabilistic Inferencing
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Barry Drake serves as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where he is also affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology and the Data Science Institute. Additionally, he holds the position of Co-Chief Scientist at the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre and participates in government advisory committees. His career bridges academic research and industry application, with significant experience in translating research into practical technology solutions for business and government sectors. Drake earned his PhD in Computer Science from UNSW Australia (1998-2003) and a BSc with First Class Honors in Computer Science from UTS (1991-1996). His educational background is complemented by a Certificate of Proficiency for Radio Fitter/Mechanic Electronic Systems from the Royal Australian Navy. His research focuses on algorithms and software for practical smart systems, with particular expertise in applications of AI and machine learning, probabilistic inferencing and knowledge compilation, learning probabilistic models, and fast-efficient near-neighbor searching in ultra-high dimensional spaces. His work demonstrates a clear trajectory toward health informatics applications , especially in health systems and delivery of health services, where he has made significant contributions through projects like the Lumos statewide linkage programme. The analysis of his publication record reveals a consistent pattern of research bridging theoretical computer science with practical healthcare applications. His recent work shows increasing focus on health data integration, patient journey modeling, and privacy-preserving synthetic data generation for healthcare applications, while maintaining his foundational expertise in probabilistic models and efficient search algorithms. Inventor on 20 filed patents ORCID identifier: 0000-0003-0572-9936 Drake actively supervises Masters and PhD students according to his profile, and his funded research portfolio includes multiple grants from the Digital Health CRC and NSW Health. His industry experience, particularly his 13 years at Canon Information Systems Research Australia where he served as Senior Principal Engineer and lead researcher for machine learning, informs his approach to technology research methods from a commercial perspective. His current projects focus on the impact of integrated care in New South Wales, synthetic data generation, and patient journey modeling. As Co-Chief Scientist at the Digital Health CRC, Drake contributes to a major national initiative focused on digital health innovation. His work with the Lumos programme has created Australia's first statewide linked data asset across primary care and other health settings, providing unique insights about cross-setting healthcare utilization. This initiative represents a significant contribution to health data infrastructure in Australia.