Welcome to my personal website!
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I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, Hull University, Hull, UK. I carry out research in the Neural, Emergent, and Agent Technologies Research Group (NEAT) in the area of Cognitive Robotics. I am also a Teaching Assistant for a few B.Sc. modules, including Artificial Intelligence, Prolog, and C++ Programming.
The primary focus of my research is to investigate cognitive architectures and, in particular, how cognitive architectures can reason about domain and task models through perception and learning. I am developing a self-supervised Bayesian learning system for a cognitive robot that I have dubbed Cerno-CAMAL.
Cerno is Latin for perceiving and distinguishing. CAMAL is an acronym for Computational Architectures for Motivation, Affect, and Learning. It is a Unified Theory of Cognition framework, developed by my supervisor (Dr. Darryl Davis) in 2002.
The more I learn about the human brain, human mind, intelligent behavior, and consciousness, the more I realize how incredible we humans are. And also the more I realize what we know is not much; what we don't know is immense. My aim in life is to make learning, teaching, and research my full-time occupation - the only profession from which I could never be forced to retire!
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Academic Background:
Feb 08 - present: Ph.D. Computer Science, Cognitive Robotics, Hull University,
Hull, England
Sep 03 - Dec 07: B.Sc. (Hons.) Computing Science, Oxford Brookes University,
Oxford, England
Jan 03 - Jul 03: Introductory Semester, Computer Science, Intercollege,
Nicosia, Cyprus
1998 - 2003: B.Eng. Electrical Engineering, K.N.Toosi University of Technology,
Tehran, Iran
1993 - 1998: Diploma, Mathematics & Physics, Alborz High-School,
Tehran, Iran
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I am very interested in learning more and more about the human brain and human mind, and also finding new ways to explain our mental events, mental processes, and states of mind, including familiar phenomena of feelings, emotions, motivations, learning, and consciousness. They seem so natural, clear, and direct to us that we cannot see how to start thinking about them.
I am also very interested in some philosophical concepts, such as Metacognition (thinking about thinking). It is fascinating that we can think about thinking; we can think about our thoughts themselves; we can think about our thinking process; and so many other amazing capabilities.
My favorite activity is thinking about the thinking processes of those who "still" believe in evolution!!!
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If you wish to contact me, please use email: hmiri AT mac.com
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