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William G. Kennedy is a Research Assistant Professor with the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University. He holds a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, a M.S. from the Naval PostGraduate School, and a Ph.D. from George Mason University. He is also a retired Navy Captain (30 years of service in submarines and the Naval Reserve) and a retired civil servant. He joined the Mason faculty in 2008 after a post-doctoral fellowship at the Naval Research Laboratory in cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction. His research interests focus on advancing computational cognitive modeling of human interactions with other intelligent agents and on integrating cognitive science and cognitive modeling into computational social science. The majority of his research effort is on basic research on the use of agent-based modeling to understand conflict sponsored by the Office of Naval Research under a multi-disciplinary university research initiative (MURI) program. |