Education:

B.A. Psychology, 1985, Lehigh University

M.A. Cognitive Psychology, 1988, University of Colorado, Boulder

Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, 1993, University of Colorado, Boulder

Work and Teaching History:

Associate Professor, NMSU, 2000-Present

Chief Scientist, Knowledge Analysis Technologies, 1998-Present

Assistant Professor, NMSU, 1995-2000

Postdoctoral Fellow, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, 1993-95

Member of Technical Staff, Bell Communications Research, Cognitive Science Research group, 1989-90

Research Interests & Background:

Text comprehension, Hypertext

Information retrieval and information filtering

Cognitive modeling, particularly models of memory and text comprehension using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)

Current Research in the CHIPS & SALSA lab (Computer Human Information Systems and Studies Assessing Latent Semantic Analysis) and the T3C Lab (Team Cognition, Culture and Communication):
Research is currently funded by grants from the NSF, Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

Automatic grading of essay exams (For a Demo and more information, click here.)

Automated Analyses of Team Communication

Measuring Coherence in Schizophrenic Discourse

Click here for reprints of old articles (note: this hasn't been updated in a while) Write to me if you want more recent articles

Current, Past and Future Courses:

Memory Psy 383

Seminar in Cognitive Science

Human-Computer Interaction Psy 430/530

Language Processing PSY 361/561

Introduction to Psychology Psy 201

Introduction to Psycholinguistics Psy/Ling 301

The Psychology of Information Access

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