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

• Outstanding Dissertation Award, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, March 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

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
• Information Sciences
• International Journal of Machine Consciousness
• Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
• Neurocomputing
• Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Conference Organizing Committee:

• Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2013 Chair, 2008)

Conference Program Committee:

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

Conference Referee:

• Cognitive Science Society (2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2001, 2000)
• International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (2005)
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1995)
• North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (2007)

Grant Proposal Review Panelist:

• National Science Foundation

Publications (by Pei Wang unless specified otherwise)

Authored Books:

1. Non-Axiomatic Logic: A Model of Intelligent Reasoning
   World Scientific Publishing, 2013 (in press)
2. Rigid Flexibility: The Logic of Intelligence
   Springer, Dordrecht, 2006, ISBN: 1402050445

Edited Books:

1. Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence (by Pei Wang and Ben Goertzel)
   Atlantis Press, Paris, 2012, ISBN: 9789491216619
2. Artificial General Intelligence 2008: Proceedings of the First AGI Conference (by Pei Wang, Ben Goertzel, and Stan Franklin)
   IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2008, ISBN: 9781586038335
3. Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms (by Ben Goertzel and Pei Wang)
   IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN: 9781586037581

Translations:

1. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (by Hofstadter, D., New York: Basic Books, 1979)
   Chinese Edition, with Guo W., Liu H., Yan Y., et al, Commercial Press, Beijing, 1997, ISBN: 7100013232

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: 354023733X
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. Solving a Problem With or Without a Program
   Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, Vol.3, No.3, Pages 43-73, 2012
2. 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
3. The assumptions on knowledge and resources in models of rationality
   International Journal of Machine Consciousness, Vol.3, No.1, Pages 193-218, 2011
4. Formalization of evidence: a comparative study
   Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, Vol. 1, Pages 25-53, 2009
5. Analogy in a general-purpose reasoning system
   Cognitive Systems Research, Vol.10, No.3, Pages 286-296, 2009
6. Three fundamental misconceptions of artificial intelligence
   Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol.19, No.3, Pages 249-268, 2007
7. A logic of categorization (by Pei Wang and Douglas Hofstadter)
   Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol.18, No.2, Pages 193-213, 2006
8. Experience-grounded semantics: a theory for intelligent systems
   Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 6, No. 4, Pages 282-302, 2005
9. Problem solving with insufficient resources
   International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, Vol.12, No.5, Pages 673-700, 2004
10. The limitation of Bayesianism
    Artificial Intelligence, Vol.158, No.1, Pages 97-106, 2004
11. Heuristics and normative models of judgment under uncertainty
    International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Vol.14, No.4, Pages 221-235, 1996
12. The interpretation of fuzziness
    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol.26, No.2, Pages 321-326, 1996
13. Reference classes and multiple inheritances
    International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, Vol.3, No.1, Pages 79-91, 1995
14. 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. Motivation Management in AGI Systems
   Proceedings of AGI-12, Pages 352-361, Oxford, UK, December 2012
2. 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
3. On the validity of Dempster-Shafer theory (by Jean Dezert, Pei Wang, and Albena Tchamova)
   Proceedings of Fusion 2012, Singapore, July 2012
4. 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
5. The Evaluation of AGI Systems
   Proceedings of AGI-10, Pages 164-169, Lugano, Switzerland, March 2010 (doi:10.2991/agi.2010.33, ISBN: 9789078677369)
6. 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)
7. Embodiment: Does a laptop have a body?
   Proceedings of AGI-09, Pages 174-179, Arlington, Virginia, March 2009 (ISBN: 9789078677246)
8. Case-by-case problem solving
   Proceedings of AGI-09, Pages 180-185, Arlington, Virginia, March 2009 (ISBN: 9789078677246)
9. What do you mean by "AI"?
   Proceedings of AGI-08, Pages 362-373, Memphis, Tennessee, March 2008 (ISBN: 9781586038335)
10. 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)
11. 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)
12. 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)
13. 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)
14. The logic of categorization
    Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference, Pages 181-185, Pensacola, Florida, May 2002 (AAAI Press)
15. Wason's cards: what is wrong?
    Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, Pages 371-375, Beijing, August 2001 (Press of USTC)
16. Abduction in non-axiomatic logic
    Working Notes of the IJCAI workshop on Abductive Reasoning, Pages 56-63, Seattle, Washington, August 2001
17. 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)
18. 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)
19. The logic of learning
    Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on New Research Problems for Machine Learning, Pages 37-40, Austin, Texas, July 2000
20. 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
21. Why recommendation is special?
    Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on Recommender System, Pages 111-113, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998
22. Return to term logic
    Working Notes of the IJCAI Workshop on Abduction and Induction in AI, Nagoya, August 1997
23. Problem-solving under insufficient resources
    Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation, Pages 148-155, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 1996
24. A unified treatment of uncertainties
    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference for Young Computer Scientists, Pages 462-467, Beijing, July 1995
25. 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)
26. 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)
27. 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)