Dr. Thomas S. Armstrong
| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Lecturer |
| Field of Specialization: | Computer Science |
| Name: | Dr. Thomas S. Armstrong |
| Official Address and Designation: | Assistant Professor Wheaton College Mathematics and Computer Science Department Norton, Massachusetts |
| Host Institution in India: | Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University Patan, Gujarat |
| Duration of Grant: | 5 months july 2011 |
| Brief Bio: | |
| Dr. Thomas Armstrong is an Assistant Professor of computer science at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. He is the founder of the Wheaton Robotics Laboratory where he investigates the acquisition of language in robots and data mining of time series and speech. He is the author of numerous publications on grammatical inference and unsupervised discovery of patterns in data. In 2010, Dr. Armstrong was named as the Whiting Foundation Fellow.
During his time in India as a Fulbright-Nehru fellow, Dr Armstrong plans to develop curricula and help expand the scope of the Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University's Computer Science department; explore best practices and environments to improve recruitment and retention of women in Computer Science; and learn a new language in a multicultural environment. Dr. Armstorng will lecture on topics from the field of Artificial Intelligence focusing on robotics, data mining, and formal language learning. |
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