Curriculum Vitae

Pei Wang

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Indiana University, 1995
• M.S. in Computer Science, Peking University, 1986
• B.S. in Computer Science, Peking University, 1983

Honors and Awards

• Summer Faculty Research Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2014, 2013
• Outstanding Dissertation Award, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, 1996

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor in Computer and Information Sciences (Teaching/Instructional) [September 2008 - present] Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University
  • Affiliate Researcher [November 2011 - present] Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines
• Visiting Assistant Professor (later renamed Lecturer) [July 2001 - May 2008] Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University
• Director of Research [January 2000 - April 2001] Webmind Inc. (former Intelligenesis Corporation)
• Director of Artificial Intelligence [January 1999 - January 2000] Intelligenesis Corporation
• Senior Software Engineer [April 1998 - January 1999] Intelligenesis Corporation
• Senior Technical Staff [January 1998 - April 1998] ExpLore Reasoning Systems, Inc
• Knowledge Engineer [November 1996 - December 1997] Brightware, Inc.
• Member of Technical Staff [February 1996 - November 1996] Bhasha, Inc.
• Research Associate [August 1995 - January 1996] Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, Indiana University
• Researcher [May 1991 - December 1995] Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University
• Lecturer [September 1986 - April 1991] Computer Science and Technology Department, Peking University

Professional Memberships

• Artificial General Intelligence Society, Vice Chair
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
• Cognitive Science Society

Professional Services (selected)

— Organizing Committee:

• Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute Workshop (2006)
• Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2016, 2013 Chair, 2008)
• Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence (2016)

— Program Committee:

• AAAI Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (2009, 2008)
• Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute Workshop (2006)
• Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2016 Co-Chair, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2008 Co-Chair)
• IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (2007, 2006)
• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-Like Intelligence (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013)
• Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2007)
• International Analogy Conference (2009)
• International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (2016, 2015, 2010)
• International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (2006, 2004)
• International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (2010)

— Editorial Board:

• Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, Chief Executive Editor
• Atlantis Book Series of Thinking Machines: Studies in Computational Cognition

— Journal Referee:

• Cognitive Systems Research
• Decision Support Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
• IEEE Systems Journal
• Information Sciences
• International Journal of Machine Consciousness
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
• Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
• Minds and Machines
• Neurocomputing
• Notices of the American Mathematical Society

— Grant Proposal Review Panelist:

• National Science Foundation

Publications (by Pei Wang unless specified otherwise)

— Research Monographs:

1. Non-Axiomatic Logic: A Model of Intelligent Reasoning
   World Scientific Publishing, 2013, ISBN: 9789814440271
2. Rigid Flexibility: The Logic of Intelligence
   Springer, Dordrecht, 2006, ISBN: 9781402050442

— Edited Volumes:

1. Artificial General Intelligence 2016: Proceedings of the 9th AGI Conference (by Bas Steunebrink, Pei Wang, and Ben Goertzel)
   Springer, LNAI 9782, 2016, ISBN: 9783319416489
2. Artificial General Intelligence 2013: Proceedings of the 6th AGI Conference (by Kai-Uwe Kuhnberger, Sebastian Rudolph, and Pei Wang)
   Springer, LNAI 7999, 2013, ISBN: 9783642395215
3. Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence (by Pei Wang and Ben Goertzel)
   Atlantis Press, Paris, 2012, ISBN: 9789491216619
4. Artificial General Intelligence 2008: Proceedings of the 1st AGI Conference (by Pei Wang, Ben Goertzel, and Stan Franklin)
   IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2008, ISBN: 9781586038335
5. Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms (by Ben Goertzel and Pei Wang)
   IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN: 9781586037581

— Dissertations:

1. Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System: Exploring the essence of intelligence
   Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Indiana University, 1995

— Translations:

1. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (by Hofstadter, D., New York: Basic Books, 1979)
   Chinese Edition, with Liu H., Yan Y., et al, Commercial Press, Beijing, 1997, ISBN: 9787100013239

— Book Chapters:

1. Introduction: What is the matter here? (by Pei Wang and Ben Goertzel)
   In Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence, P. Wang and B. Goertzel (editors), Pages 1-9, Atlantis Press, Paris, 2012, ISBN: 9789491216619
2. Theories of Artificial Intelligence: Meta-theoretical considerations
   In Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence, P. Wang and B. Goertzel (editors), Pages 307-325, Atlantis Press, Paris, 2012, ISBN: 9789491216619
3. Introduction: Aspects of artificial general intelligence (by Pei Wang and Ben Goertzel)
   In Advance of Artificial General Intelligence, B. Goertzel and P. Wang (editors), Pages 1-16, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN: 9781586037581
4. From NARS to a thinking machine
   In Advance of Artificial General Intelligence, B. Goertzel and P. Wang (editors), Pages 75-93, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN: 9781586037581
5. The logic of intelligence
   In Artificial General Intelligence, B. Goertzel and C. Pennachin (editors), Pages 31-62, Springer, New York, 2007, ISBN: 9783540237334
6. Recommendation based on personal preference
   In Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications, Y. Zhang, A. Kandel, T. Lin, and Y. Yao (editors), Pages 101-115, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 2004, ISBN: 9812388273
7. Unified inference in extended syllogism
   In Abduction and Induction, P. Flach and A. Kakas (editors), Pages 117-129, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000, ISBN: 0792362500
8. A new approach for induction: from a non-axiomatic logical point of view
   In Philosophy, Logic, and Artificial Intelligence, Ju S., Liang Q., and Liang B. (editors), Pages 53-85, Zhongshan University Press, Guangzhou, 1999, ISBN: 7306015419

— Journal Articles:

1. A framework with reasoning capabilities for crisis response decision-support systems (by Nady Slam, Wenjun Wang, Guixiang Xue, and Pei Wang)
   Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 46, Part B, Pages 346-353, 2015
2. On the logic of percutaneous coronary interventions (by Peter Lanzer and Pei Wang)
   International Journal of Clinical Cardiology, Vol.2, No.3, 2015
3. Solving a problem with or without a program
   Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, Vol.3, No.3, Pages 43-73, 2012
4. Editorial: Approaches and assumptions of self-programming in achieving artificial general intelligence (by Kristinn R. Thórisson, Eric Nivel, Ricardo Sanz, and Pei Wang)
   Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, Vol.3, No.3, Pages 1-10, 2012
5. The frame problem, the relevance problem, and a package solution to both (by Yingjin Xu and Pei Wang)
   Synthese, Vol. 187, No.1, Pages 43-72, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0117-8, 2012
6. The assumptions on knowledge and resources in models of rationality
   International Journal of Machine Consciousness, Vol.3, No.1, Pages 193-218, 2011
7. Formalization of evidence: a comparative study
   Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, Vol. 1, Pages 25-53, 2009
8. Analogy in a general-purpose reasoning system
   Cognitive Systems Research, Vol.10, No.3, Pages 286-296, 2009
9. Three fundamental misconceptions of artificial intelligence
   Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol.19, No.3, Pages 249-268, 2007
10. A logic of categorization (by Pei Wang and Douglas Hofstadter)
    Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol.18, No.2, Pages 193-213, 2006
11. Experience-grounded semantics: a theory for intelligent systems
    Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 6, No. 4, Pages 282-302, 2005
12. Problem solving with insufficient resources
    International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, Vol.12, No.5, Pages 673-700, 2004
13. The limitation of Bayesianism
    Artificial Intelligence, Vol.158, No.1, Pages 97-106, 2004
14. Heuristics and normative models of judgment under uncertainty
    International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Vol.14, No.4, Pages 221-235, 1996
15. The interpretation of fuzziness
    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol.26, No.2, Pages 321-326, 1996
16. Reference classes and multiple inheritances
    International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, Vol.3, No.1, Pages 79-91, 1995
17. From inheritance relation to nonaxiomatic logic
    International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Vol.11, No.4, Pages 281-319, 1994

— Refereed Conference/Symposium/Workshop Papers:

1. Different Conceptions of Learning: Function Approximation vs. Self-Organization (by Pei Wang and Xiang Li)
   Proceedings of AGI-16, Pages 140-149, New York City, July 2016
2. The Emotional Mechanisms in NARS (by Pei Wang, Max Talanov, and Patrick Hammer)
   Proceedings of AGI-16, Pages 150-159, New York City, July 2016
3. The OpenNARS implementation of the Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System (by Patrick Hammer, Tony Lofthouse, and Pei Wang)
   Proceedings of AGI-16, Pages 160-170, New York City, July 2016
4. Safe baby AGI (by Jordi Bieger, Kristinn R. Thorisson, and Pei Wang)
   Proceedings of AGI-15, Pages 46-49, Berlin, July 2015
5. Assumptions of decision-making models in AGI (by Pei Wang and Patrick Hammer)
   Proceedings of AGI-15, Pages 197-207, Berlin, July 2015
6. Issues in temporal and causal inference (by Pei Wang and Patrick Hammer)
   Proceedings of AGI-15, Pages 208-217, Berlin, July 2015
7. An improvisational decision-making agent based on non-axiomatic reasoning system (by Nady Slam, Wenjun Wang, and Pei Wang)
   The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Warsaw, Poland, August 2014
8. What Should AGI Learn From AI & CogSci? (by Pei Wang, Bas R. Steunebrink, and Kristinn R. Thórisson)
   AGI-14 Special Session on AGI and Cognitive Science, Quebec City, Canada, August 2014
9. Formal models in AGI research
   AGI-13 Workshop: Formalizing Mechanisms for Artificial General Intelligence and Cognition, Beijing, China, August 2013
10. Issues in applying probability theory to AGI
    AGI-13 Workshop: Probability Theory or Not?, Beijing, China, August 2013
11. Natural language processing by reasoning and learning
    Proceedings of AGI-13, Pages 160-169, Beijing, China, August 2013
12. Predictive Heuristics for Decision-Making in Real-World Environment (by Helgi Páll Helgason, Kristinn R. Thórisson, Eric Nivel, and Pei Wang)
    Proceedings of AGI-13, pages 50-59, Beijing, China, August 2013
13. Motivation management in AGI systems
    Proceedings of AGI-12, Pages 352-361, Oxford, UK, December 2012
14. Rationality-guided AGI as cognitive systems (by Ahmed Abdel-Fattah, Tarek R. Besold, Helmar Gust, Ulf Krumnack, Martin Schmidt, Kai-Uwe Kuhnberger, and Pei Wang)
    Proceedings of CogSci 2012, Sapporo, Japan, August 2012
15. On the validity of Dempster-Shafer theory (by Jean Dezert, Pei Wang, and Albena Tchamova)
    Proceedings of Fusion 2012, Singapore, July 2012
16. Reasoning in non-axiomatic logic: a case study in medical diagnosis (by Pei Wang and Seemal Awan)
    Proceedings of AGI-11, Mountain View, California, August 2011
17. The Evaluation of AGI Systems
    Proceedings of AGI-10, Pages 164-169, Lugano, Switzerland, March 2010 (doi:10.2991/agi.2010.33, ISBN: 9789078677369)
18. Insufficient knowledge and resources: a biological constraint and its functional implications
    Papers from the AAAI 2009 Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Pages 88-93, Arlington, Virginia, November 2009 (ISBN: 9781577354352)
19. Embodiment: Does a laptop have a body?
    Proceedings of AGI-09, Pages 174-179, Arlington, Virginia, March 2009 (ISBN: 9789078677246)
20. Case-by-case problem solving
    Proceedings of AGI-09, Pages 180-185, Arlington, Virginia, March 2009 (ISBN: 9789078677246)
21. What do you mean by "AI"?
    Proceedings of AGI-08, Pages 362-373, Memphis, Tennessee, March 2008 (ISBN: 9781586038335)
22. Artificial general intelligence and classical neural network
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Pages 130-135, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2006 (ISBN: 1424401348)
23. Artificial intelligence: what it is, and what it should be
    Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium on AAAI Spring Symposium on Cognitive Science Principles Meet AI-Hard Problems, Pages 97-102, Stanford, California, March 2006 (ISBN: 9781577352631)
24. Toward a unified artificial intelligence
    Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium on Achieving Human-Level Intelligence through Integrated Research and Systems, Pages 83-90, Washington DC, October 2004 (ISBN: 9781577352129)
25. Reasoning in practical situations
    Proceedings of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 8th International Conference, Wellington, September 2004 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3215, Pages 285-292, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2004, ISBN: 3540232052)
26. The logic of categorization
    Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference, Pages 181-185, Pensacola, Florida, May 2002 (AAAI Press)
27. Wason's cards: what is wrong?
    Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, Pages 371-375, Beijing, August 2001 (Press of USTC)
28. Abduction in non-axiomatic logic
    Working Notes of the IJCAI workshop on Abductive Reasoning, Pages 56-63, Seattle, Washington, August 2001
29. Confidence as higher-order uncertainty
    Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications, Pages 352-361, Ithaca, New York, June 2001 (Shaker Publishing)
30. Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System (version 4.1) [Intelligent Systems Demos]
    Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pages 1135-1136, Austin, Texas, July 2000 (AAAI Press / The MIT Press)
31. The logic of learning
    Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on New Research Problems for Machine Learning, Pages 37-40, Austin, Texas, July 2000
32. Grounding the meaning of symbols on the system's experience
    Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on the Grounding of Word Meaning: Data and Models, Pages 23-24, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998
33. Why recommendation is special?
    Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on Recommender System, Pages 111-113, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998
34. Return to term logic
    Working Notes of the IJCAI Workshop on Abduction and Induction in AI, Nagoya, August 1997
35. Problem-solving under insufficient resources
    Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation, Pages 148-155, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 1996
36. A unified treatment of uncertainties
    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference for Young Computer Scientists, Pages 462-467, Beijing, July 1995
37. A defect in Dempster-Shafer theory
    Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Pages 560-566, Seattle, Washington, July 1994 (Morgan Kaufmann)
38. Belief revision in probability theory
    Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Pages 519-526, Washington D.C., July 1993 (Morgan Kaufmann)
39. A discover-oriented logic model (by Wang Pei and Hsu Cho-Chun)
    Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computers and Applications, Pages 598-604, Beijing, July 1987 (IEEE Computer Society Press)