User:Douglas H Fisher

I am an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University (http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~dfisher/ ). I received my PhD from the University of California, Irvine. My research and most of my teaching is in artificial intelligence, to include machine learning and cognitive modeling; I also teach introduction to database management systems, and at various times have taught data structures, automata theory, and computer organization. From 2007-2010 I was a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, overseeing research in artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as participating in a variety of cross-directorate funding programs (http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/24/first-person-life-as-a-nsf-program-director/).

I have served on the editorial boards of the journals, Machine Learning, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis, IEEE Intelligent Systems, and many conferences in AI and machine learning. I also served as the Area Editor for AI and Sustainability of IEEE Intelligent Systems and Director for Broader Impacts and Synthesis of the Computational Sustainability Network (https://www.compsust.net/).

My primary goals for contributing to Wikipedia are to add to the machine learning and artificial intelligence content, in part motivated by a desire to bolster background AI content that I and other collaborators can point to from a Wikibooks on Artificial Intelligence for Computational Sustainability: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_for_Computational_Sustainability:_A_Lab_Companion.

I was also Director of Outreach, Education, Diversity, and Synthesis (OEDS) for the NSF funded Expeditions supporting the Computational Sustainability Network, and editing the Computational Sustainability Wikipedia pages continues that work