Bio

Dr. Joanna Bryson
University of Bath
http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb/
Full CV is available from http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb/web/jb.html

Joanna obtained a BA in Behavioural Science from Chicago, then
took a Masters from the Edinburgh Department of Artificial
Intelligence. She has worked in robotics and cognitive modelling with
Edinburgh's Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and Intelligence
Systems and holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT, where she worked
in the AI lab. She is a an Associate Editor of Adaptive Behaviour,
and has been on the Editorial Board of Web Intelligence and Agent
Systems. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Bath where
she founded the Artificial models of natural Intelligence group
(AmonI), and where she is also a member of the Centre for Bio-Mimetics
and the Centre for Mathematical Biology. She is a member of the EPSRC
Biological Robotics Network and a Scientific Adviser for Communicative
Machines, Inc.. She has also consulted for LEGO (the toy company), and
currently serves as an expert for the European Commission on
Information Society and Media: Cognitive Systems and Robotics.

Her scientific passion is understanding human and other animal
behaviour. She uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to build
working hypotheses (or models) of intelligence, which she then tests
by comparing their predictions (or behavior) to that of real
animals. She believes that understanding AI and animal behaviour will
greatly advance our understanding of humans. She is currently working
primarily on applying her AI development methodology, Behaviour
Oriented Design (BOD) to modelling non-human primates. Among her
numerous robotics projects, she has developed an AI music system
called The Reactive Accompanist, and worked on the humanoid robot
project (Cog) which was designed to simulate the staged development of
human infants.

Joanna Bryson
based on an earlier biography written by Satinder P. Gill

Last updated 20 June 2007