Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science

Doctoral Candidate

Thesis Title: Towards a Psychologically Realistic Comprehensive Computational Theory of Emotion

About

Nicholas Wilson is currently serving as a Teaching and Research Assistant in the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is extensively versed in both the conceptual and implementation aspects of cognitive architectures, cognitive modeling, unified theories of cognition, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He is the lead developer for the CLARION Library, which is the implementation of the CLARION Cognitive Architecture by Dr. Ron Sun. He has published several papers on modeling various behavioral phenomenon and has presented tutorials on CLARION at: the 30th & 32nd Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society in Washington DC & Portland, OR; the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling in Philadelphia, PA; as a workshop for KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea; and as a lecture series for various courses in Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

His current research interests are focused on modeling human behavior, including:
- Computational theories of personality
- Appraisal theory & emotion
- Anxiety-induced performance degradation
- Multi-agent social interaction
- The interaction between motivation & meta-cognition
- Episodic memory
- Theory and engineering of cognitive architectures

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