Biography
Karl F. MacDorman is associate professor in the Human-Computer Interaction program of the School of Informatics, Indiana University. The widely published scholar is also an adjunct professor with the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology.
MacDorman comes to Indianapolis with a research and education background that is international in scope. Dr. MacDorman received his Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science from University of California, Berkeley in 1988. His studies then took him to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom where he completed his Ph.D. in machine learning and robotics in 1996.
Most recently MacDorman was an associate professor at Osaka University, Japan (2003-2005). Previously, he was assistant professor in the Department of Systems and Human Science at the same institution (1997-2000), and a supervisor (1991-1997) and research fellow (1997-1998) at Cambridge University.
Dr. MacDorman has also worked as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems and as chief technology officer for two venture companies. He has published more than 40 papers in Human Computer Interaction, Robotics, Machine Learning and Cognitive Science.
His research interests include android science, machine learning, social robotics, sensor motor representation, symbol grounding and symbol emergence, computational neuroscience and computer security.
