CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:		Jim Davies					Date: May 13, 2008

Education

B.A. Philosophy (1993)
State University of New York College at Oswego

M.S. Psychology (1997)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Thesis: Correlation and Consistent Contrast Biases Shown in Free Sort Categorization
Advisor: Dr. Dorrit O. Billman

Ph.D. Computer Science (2004)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Thesis: Visual Analogical Problem Solving
Advisors: Profs. Ashok K. Goel and Nancy J. Nersessian
Committee: Profs. Ronald W. Ferguson, Richard Catrambone
Certificate: Cognitive Science

Employment
a)	Academic employment

1995 - 1996
Georgia Institute of Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Dorrit O. Billman

1997 – 1998
Georgia Institute of Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Janet L. Kolodner

Fall 2001 – 2004
Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Research Assistant
Supervisors: Profs. Nancy J. Nersessian and Wendy C. Newstetter

Fall 2004 – 2006
Queen’s University, School of Computing
Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisor: Prof. Janice Glasgow

Fall 2006 – Present
Carleton University, Institute of Cognitive Science
Continuing Professor

a)	Other employment

1994-1995
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Graduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Dr. Timothy J. Thomas

Summer 1997
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Graduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Dr. Mark Galassi

Summer 2000
Mitsubishi Industrial Research Labs
Research Intern
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Rich

Professional Honours

Current Research Interests

When making analogies, a reasoner must sometimes find similarity between very different things.  In my research I endeavor to show that reasoners change knowledge representations to facilitate the identification of hidden similarities. I am particularly interested in visual representations. For example, a visual representation of a mop handle and a breadstick might be similar (i.e., long, thin, and beige) where functional representations of the same objects are not (one is edible and the other is meant to support a mop head).

My current research focuses on regularities in human imagination. For example,  visualizing rectangles, people tend to imagine them with a flat side (rather than a point)
facing down.  I approach cognitive science through artificial intelligence: I create
computer models of visualization.

Publications
	Books

Galassi, M., Davies, J., Theiler, J., Gough, B., Jungman, G., Booth, M. & Rossi, F. (2001) GNU Scientific Library. Network Theory Ltd.

Galassi, M., Davies, J., Theiler, J., Gough, B., Jungman, G., Booth, M. & Rossi, F. (2003) GNU Scientific Library – Second Edition. Network Theory Ltd.

	Books edited (including annotated translations)

	Chapters in edited books

Davies, J. R. (2001). Ocelots are endangered South American wild cats. In J. Ohler (Ed.) Future Courses: A Compendium of Thought About the Future of Technology and Education. Technos Press.

Nersessian, N. J., Kurz-Milcke, E. & Davies, J. (2005). Ubiquitous computing in science and engineering labs: A case study of a biomedical engineering lab. In G. Kouzelis, M. Pournari, M. Stoeppler and V. Tselfes, (Eds.), Knowledge in the New Technologies. Peter Lang: Berlin: 167--195.

	Articles in refereed journals

Davies, J., Nersessian, N. J. & Goel, A. K. (2005). Visual models in analogical problem    solving. Foundations of Science, Special Issue on Model-Based Reasoning: Visual, Analogical, Simulative. L. Magnani & N. J. Nersessian (Eds.) 10, 133-152.

Billman, D. O. & Davies, J. (2005). Consistent contrast and correlation in free sorting. American Journal of Psychology. 118(3) 353--383

Davies, J., Glasgow, J. & Kuo, T. (2006). Visio-spatial case-based reasoning: A case study in prediction of protein structure. Computational Intelligence, 22:3/4, 194--207.

Glasgow, J., Kuo, T. & Davies, J. (2006). Protein structure from contact maps: A case-based reasoning approach. Information Science Frontiers, Special Issue  on Knowledge Discovery in High-Throughput Biological Domains. 8: 29--36.

Davies, J., Goel, A. K. (2007). Transfer of Problem-Solving Strategy Using Covlan. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing: 18, 149--164.

Davies, J., Goel, A. K. (2008). Visual representations and re-representation in analogical reasoning.  The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2, 11-20.

Davies, J., Goel, A. K. & Yaner, P. W. (in press). Proteus: Visuospatial analogy in problem-solving.  Knowledge-Based Systems.

	Articles in referred conference proceedings 

Murdock, W. J., Simina, M., Davies, J., & Shippey, G. (1998).  Modeling Invention by Analogy in ACT-R.   Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.

Davies, J. R., Lesh, N., Rich, C., Sidner, C. L., Gertner, A. S., & Rickel, J. (2001). Incorporating tutorial strategies into an intelligent assistant.  Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Davies, J., & Goel, A. K. (2001). Visual analogy in problem solving. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. pp 377-382. Morgan
Kaufmann publishers.

Nersessian, N. J., Newstetter, W. C., Kurz-Milcke, E. & Davies, J. (2002). A Mixed-method Approach to Studying Distributed Cognition in Evolving Environments. 
Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Sciences. pp. 307--314.

Davies, J. & Goel, A. K. (2003). Visual case-based reasoning I: Transfer and adaptation.  Proceedings of the First Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Hyderabad, India.

Davies, J., Goel, A. K., & Nersessian, N. J. (2003). Visual re-representation in creative
analogies. In A. Cardoso & J. Gero (Eds.) The Third Workshop on Creative Systems, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 

Davies, J. & Goel, A. K. (2004). Representation Issues in visual analogy. In R. Alternam & D. Kirsh (Eds.) Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Erlbaum. Hillsdale, New Jersey. 300-305.

Nersessian, N. J., Kurz-Milke, E., Newstetter, W. C. & Davies, J. (2004). Research laboratories as evolving distributed cognitive systems. In A. Markman & L. Barsalou
(Eds.)  Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Erlbaum. Hillsdale, New Jersey. 857--862. 

Davies, J., Goel, A. K. & Nersessian,  N. J. (2005). Transfer of problem-solving strategy using the  Cognitive Visual Language.  Proceedings of the  International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing (VLC05). 293--298. 

Davies, J., Goel, A. K. & Nersessian, N. J. (2005). Transfer in visual case-based
problem-solving. In H. Munoz-Avila & F. Ricci (Eds.)  Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning. LNAI 3620. Springer-Verlag. Berlin Heidelberg. 163--176. 

 Davies, J., Goel, A. K. & Nersessian, N. J. (2005). A Cognitive Model of visual analogical problem-solving transfer. Poster paper in L. P. Kaelbling & A. Saffioti
 (Eds.) Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence. Professional Book Center, Denver, Colorado. 1556--1557.

Davies, J., Glasgow, J. & Kuo, T. (2006). Protein structure prediction with visuospatial analogy. In T. Barkowsky, C. Freksa, M. Klnauff, & B. Krieg-Bruckner (Eds.)  Proceedings of Spatial Cognition 2006, Bremen, Germany. 

	Major encyclopedia or dictionary articles
	Catalogues
	Textbooks
	Published technical reports

Davies, J. (1998) Correlation and consistent contrast biases shown in free sort categorization. Georgia Institute of Technology Cognitive Science Report Series
GIT-COGSCI-98/02. Atlanta, Georgia.

Davies, J. R., Goel, A. K., Murdock, J. W., Simina, M.,  Shippey, G. (2000). Three Cognitive Models. Georgia Institute of Technology Cognitive Science Report Series
GIT-COGSCI-2000/03. Atlanta, Georgia.

Davies, J. R., Lesh, N., Rich, C., Sidner, C. L., Gertner, A. S.,  Rickel, J. (2000). Incorporating tutorial strategies into an intelligent assistant. Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. Technical report TR-2000-30. Cambridge, MA.

Davies, J., Nersessian, N. J.,  Goel, A. K. (2001). Visual models in analogical problem
solving. Georgia Institute of Technology Cognitive Science technical report GIT-COGSCI-2001/03.

	Published Professional Tests
	Creative writing

Davies, J. (2007). This City Was Made For Us. Poetry in Bywords, December, 2007.

	Articles in non-refereed journals and miscellaneous scholarly publications 
	Review articles
	Books reviews in scholarly journals 
	Journalistic writing

Editorial Responsibilities

Papers Presented
a)	to learned societies
b)	to other academic bodies

Davies, J. & Billman D. (1996) Hierarchical categorization and the effects of contrast inconsistency in an unsupervised learning task. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.  Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. p.750.

Billman, D., Davila, D. & Davies, J.  (1996). Hierarchy and consistent contrast aid supervised and unsupervised concept learning. November 1996, Accepted talk, Conference of the Psychonomics Society.

Galassi, M., Davies, J., Theiler, J., Gough, B., Priedhorsky, R., Jungman, G., & Booth, M. (1999). The GNU scientific library. October 1999, Open Source/Open Science
Conference, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Davies, J. (1999). An evaluation of SIRRINE2 as a cognitive architecture based on a model of human arithmetic. Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society, Vancouver, BC.

Davies, J., Nersessian, N. J. & Goel, A. K. (2001). Visual analogy in scientific discovery. Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology Workshop, University of Virginia, March 24-27.

Newstetter, W. C., Nersessian, N. J., Davies, J., Kurz,  E. & Malone, K. (2002) Biomedical Engineering Thinking and  Learning: Phase 1--Reasoning in the lab. NSF presentation.

Nersessian, N. J., Newstetter, W. C., Kurz-Milcke, E., Davies, J. & Malone, K. (2003) Laboratory learning: Cognition and learning in biomedical engineering labs.  NSF
Presentation. 

Davies, J. (2004). Constructive adaptive visual analogy.
School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, U of Missouri. May 19. 	School of Computing, Queen's University. May 13.
University College Dublin. April 27.
University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. March 24.

Davies, J. (2004). Constructive adaptive visual analogy. Cognitive Science Student Conference. Georgia Institute of Technology. April 23. 

Davies, J. (2006) Visualization in Human Imagination. Cognitive Science Colloquium Series. Carleton University. October 13.

Abelson, A., Davies, J., Fraser, R., Kuo, T., Zuviria, E. & Glasgow, J. (2006). Protein structure from contact maps: An hierarchical approach. Poster at First Canadian
Student Conference on Biomedical Computing (CSCBC06). Kingston, Ontario. 

Davies, J. (2006). The role of visual reasoning in analogical problem solving.
University of California at Merced. February 16.
Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University. February 13.

Davies, J. (2007). A.I. past and future. Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future’s (IBHF) Conference, “The Spotless Mind? Policy, Ethics & the Future of Human Intelligence,” February 16: The National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
http://www.thehumanfuture.org/events/webcast_021607.html

a)	non-academic talks

Other Important Forms of Scholarly Productivity

Research Grants
a)	Government or extra-university

Davies, J., Essa, I., & Maple, T. The Primatech project: An interactive simulation of a signing orangutan. Seed Grant awarded 1998-1999. GVU, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Ferres, L. & Davies, J. (2006). Interaction between Linguistic & Visual Cues During Graph Comprehension Tasks. Statistics Canada. $18,000 CDN.
Fund: 301710
Org:  058
Award Ref: 72800-06-0095

a)	University

Carleton University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Startup Grant. $30,000

Service to the Profession
a)	Offices in learned societies
b)	Scholarly assessments
c)	Other

Editor of Cognitive Science Summaries website:
URL: http://www.jimdavies.org/summaries/

Consultancies and Contract Research

Academic Responsibilities
a)	Graduate courses taught

[CGSC 4001/5001] Special Topics in Cognitive Science 
Carleton University
Instructor
Fall 2006, 2007

[CGSC6800] Proseminar in Cognitive Science 
Carleton University
Instructor
Winter 2007, 2008
a)	Undergraduate courses taught

[CISC 453] Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Queen's University 
Instructor (one-third)
Spring 2006

[CGSC 2002]
Theories and Methods in Cognitive Science
Carleton University
Instructor
Winter 2007, 2008

a)	Supervision - Ph.D.

Wendy-Ann Deslauriers (methodology rotation)

Neal LaBlanc

Jobina Li

Robert Thomson

- MA
- Honours
- Other Research Students

Jordan Schoenherr

Heather Burch

Alexander Miller

Artem Tsvetkov

Velian Pandeliev

Connor Smith

Sterling Somers

Iva Nedeleva

James MacAuley

Nicolas DiNoia

Shaista Mohammadi

Mark Fortney

Jonathan Gagne

Robert Bertschi

a)	Theses examined for other departments at Carleton
Jordan Schoenherr 2008 (MS, Psychology)
Michael Henighan 2008 (MS, Psychology)

Administrative Responsibilities at Carleton
a)	Department
	
	Cognitive Science Distinguished Lecture Series, coordinator, 
	Fall 2006 – Present

	Member, Institute of Cognitive Science Director Search Committee
	2007
	
	Member, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Tenure Review Committee
	2007
	
	Speaker, Annual March Break Program, Pitch to high school students
	2007-2008

	Faculty calls to high school students
	Winter 2008

	Member, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Promotion Review Committee
	2008

	Faculty
a)	University

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