DOCTORAL STUDENTS DOCTORAL STUDENTSThree of these students have their degrees from IIT Kanpur (often called the MIT of India), four from Carnegie Mellon, and ten from the University of Memphis.
1. Arvind Kumar Mishra, Spaces in which Gd sets are open. Indian Institute
of Technology, Kanpur, June 1970.
Dr. Mishra held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Amsterdam
where he worked with J. de Groot. Some of his subsequent researches have
concerned Wallman compactifications.
2. J. K. Kohli, Open extension of functions, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur, August 1970.
Dr. Kohli has worked on various kinds of extensions of maps - open, closed,
compact, monotone. He's on the faculty of Hindu College, University of Delhi.
3. Peter Nyikos,
N-compact spaces, Carnegie-Mellon University, April 1971.
Dr. Nyikos was my "genius" student. His thesis solved the best
known and most oft attempted open problem in categorical topology. He held
an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago and subsequently
faculty positions at the University of Illinois, at Auburn University, and
now at the University of South
Carolina. He's continued to produce one piece of significant research
after another.
4. Wagish
Shukla, On Top Categories, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, August
1971.
Dr. Shukla is a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
He's helping to pioneer the new field of categorical automata theory. He's
recently been on leave at the University of Paris.
5. R. C. Walker, On the Stone-Cech Compactification, Carnegie-Mellon University,
May 1972.
Dr. Walker's dissertation, published in book form by Springer (Ergebnisse
der Mathematik und Threr Gvenzgebiete Band 83), has been both glowingly
reviewed and widely referenced.
6. Gregory Naber, Problems from the theory of coverings, dimension theory
and cardinal invariants, Carnegie-Mellon University, August, 1973.
Dr. Naber's massive dissertation was one of the early volumes accepted by
University Microfilms, August, 1973.
7. Steven Purisch, The Orderability and Suborderability of Topological Spaces,
Carnegie-Mellon University, August, 1972. The major results of Dr. Purisch's
dissertation were published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical
Society. He has continued to publish actively.
8. Ananda K. Gubbi, On a Class of Projective Spaces, University of Memphis,
May 1984.
9. John Harris, Hypertext as a learning tool, University of Memphis August 1990.
Dr. Harris has been awarded several postdoctoral fellowships, and is currently
at Lemoyne-Owen College.
10. Lijia Zhou, Character Recognition Agents, (An artificial life application
to handwritten character recognition) University of Memphis, August 1996.
11. Hongjun
Song, (Control Structures for Software Agents) University of Memphis, May
1998. Dr. Song is employed at FedEx Corparation in Memphis, and teaches Computer
Science part time at the University of Memphis..
12. Myles Bogner ("Consciousness
in Software Agents) University of Memphis, 1999
13. Zhaohua Zhang, (Perception and
Metacognition in Software Agents) University of Memphis, 2000. .
14.. Lee McCauley (Neural Schema) University of Memphis, 2001. Dr. McCauley is currently an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Memphis.
15. Ashraf Anwar (Applying distributed memory to associative memory in software agents) University of Memphis 2002. Dr. Anwar is currently an assistant professor at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.
16. Arpad Kelemen (Constraint Catisfaction in Software Agents) University of Memphis 2002. Dr. Kelemen is curently an assistant professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Niagra University. Frequently in collaboration with his wife, Y. Liang, he continues to publish his research actively.
17. Uma Ramamurthy (Designing Memory Systems For “Conscious” Software Agents) University of Memphis 2004. Dr. Ramamurthy is employed at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, and teaches Computer Science part time at the University of Memphis. She also continues as an active post-doctoral researcher with the "Conscious" Software Research Group.
18. Aregehan Negatu (Dynamic Decision Making and the Role of “Consciousness” for a Software Agent System) University of Memphis, 2006
I'm currently directing several doctoral
students, all but one working, or intending to work in some area of control
of autonomous agents, particularly on the IDA project.
19. Sidney D'Mello is working
on episodic learning for "conscious" software.
20. Rodrigo Silva is working on cognitive robotics using the LIDA model.