Welcome!

As a brief introduction, I am a Research Assistant Professor at George Mason University where I have been since the fall of 2008. I had previously completed full careers in the Navy (30 years in submarines and the Naval Reserves) and in the federal civil service (Nuclear Regulatory Commission (10 yrs) then Department of Energy (15 yrs)). I earned a Ph.D. in Information Technology in 2003 (Artificial Intelligence) and retired from federal civil service in 2005. I then did a 3 year post-doc at the Naval Research Laboratory in cognitive robotics, which focused my research interests to Cognitive Science. My current research is in modeling individuals' cognitive processes and human behavior in agent-based models of societies. I also teach for my Department of Computational Social Science and the Department of Psychology at GMU.