CURRENT MEMBERS
Lab Director
Dr. Richard M. Golden
Dr. Golden received his BS in both electrical engineering and psychology from the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Golden received his MS in electrical engineering and his PhD in experimental psychology from Brown University.
Dr. Golden is specifically interested in the mathematical analysis, development, and application of statistical machine learning algorithms for the purpose of understanding complex cognitive processes. His current research interests are focused on the areas of computational psychometrics, AI-powered educational assessment methods, cyberlearning technologies, and modeling of complex cognitive representations and processes.
Doctoral Students
Athul Sudheesh
Athul is the cofounder of COINS Lab along with Dr. Richard M. Golden. Athul joined the Cognition and Neuroscience PhD program at UT Dallas in 2019 bringing his rich prior experience in software development, UI design and development, and machine learning.
Athul’s research interests include implicit learning, knowledge representation, and philosophy of mind. He is specifically interested in understanding the semantic and functional properties of mental representation.
Ritesh Malaiya
Ritesh is a PhD student in cognition and Neuroscience. He has a master’s degree in applied cognition and neuroscience from The University of Texas at Dallas and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, India. He is interested in Educational Psychology and Computational Psychometrics research areas. He has worked as a Data Scientist in Banking domain and as a Software Development Engineer in Retail domain working mostly towards building backend algorithms to support Business processes.
Currently, in COINS lab, he is involved in developing probabilistic models to capture the evolution of students skills as they progress through the semester.
Reyhaneh Hosseinpour
Reyhaneh is a PhD student in the Cognition and Neuroscience program. She has a bachelor’s degree in statistics from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. She is interested in using statistics, machine learning, and statistical analysis methods for the purpose of developing new models of the brain and behavior.
Research Assistants
Hima Praveen
Hima Praveen is an undergraduate Cognitive Science major. Hima is working on the application of Cognitive Diagnostic Models to assessment of medical students in a virtual reality environment.
Suvel Muttreja
Suvel Muttreja is an undergraduate Cognitive Science major. Suvel is working on the integration of Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing algorithms into the process of assessing medical students in a virtual reality enviornment.
Jeremy Gelwix
Jeremy Gelwix is currently a graduate student in the Applied Cognition and Neuroscience program at UTD. Jeremy is working on an intelligent graphical user interface to support expert knowledge solicitation to support Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling.
Nicolas Huang
Nicolas Siyu Huang is an undergraduate Computer Science major. Nicolas is working on the integration of Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing algorithms into the process of assessing medical students in a virtual reality environment.
Yvonne Hsiao
Yvonne Hsiao is an undergraduate Cognitive Science major. Yvonne is working on an intelligent graphical user interface to support expert knowledge solicitation to support Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling.
Suhas Sompalli
Suhas Sompalli is currently an undergraduate Data Science major. Suhas is working on an intelligent graphical user interface to support expert knowledge solicitation to support Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling. In addition, he is supporting cross-language compilation of complex mathematical algorithms and user interfaces.
Reilly Geary
Reilly Geary is a graduate student in Biomedical sciences. Reilly is is working on the application of Cognitive Diagnostic Models to assessment of medical students in a virtual reality environment.
ALUMNI
Doctoral Students
Candice Pattisapu Fox
PhD ’23
Candice received her PhD student in Psychological Sciences from UTD in 2023. She is interested in computational models of development, cyberlearning, and the history and philosophy of cognitive science. She earned a BA in philosophy from UT Austin, an MA in applied linguistics from UMass Boston, and an MS in applied cognition and neuroscience from UT Dallas. Currently she is a Computational Cognition Research Scientist at Verses AI in LA.
James Ryland
PhD ’21
James graduated in 2021. His research involved the design and implementation of neural network models for visual object recognition that are consistent with cognitive theories of how the brain performs visual recognition.
James is currently a machine learning research scientist at Raytheon.
Kari Stouffer
PhD’19
Kari Stouffer graduated in 2019 and developed a methodology for assessing cognitive flexibility using a version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task using verbal codes.
Shaurabh Nandy
PhD ’18
Shaurabh developed a theoretical framework for generative modeling of human functional whole brain networks using fMRI data. He’s currently the Head of Applied AI at Foxbat Research, the company he co-founded after graduation. At Foxbat, Shaurabh’s research on social synchrony in the financial markets led to the invention of the core algorithms that power the HerdForce platform.
Perwaiz Ismaili
PhD`12
Perwaiz’s doctoral thesis was concerned with discerning sequential latent patterns of expertise mental models exhibited in online behaviors. Currently, Dr. Ismaili is a faculty member at the Metropolitan State University where he teaches undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level courses for the College of Management.
Shahram Ghiasinejad
PhD`07
Shahram’s doctoral thesis was concerned with the evaluation of the AUTOCODER system to assist in the automatic coding of free-response data. Currently Dr. Ghiasinejad is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Central Florida.
Dae-Hyun Paik
PhD in Electrical Engineering`04
Dae-Hyun’s doctoral thesis was concerned with Space-time Processing using the Block Shanno Algorithm for Smart Antennas in DS-CDMA Systems
Research Assistants
Hazim Kuniyil
Hazim was an undergraduate senior cognitive science major and has interests in neural networks and has interests in neural networks and cognitive science. Hazim developed an intelligent graphical user interface to support cognitive diagnostic modeling for his Collegium V Honors Research requirement.
Evelyn Le
Evelyn was an undergraduate senior cognitive science major with a minor in Business Intelligence and Analytics. As a COINS lab RA, Evelyn worked on the problem of applying Cognitive Diagnostic Models for the purpose of assessing student learning outcomes in a semester-long course.
Shahrukh Showkath
Shahrukh is currently an undergraduate Computer Science major. His research interests lie in the development of machine/deep learning algorithms. and decision science.
Ashwin Somasundaram
Ashwin is currently an undergraduate senior Computer Science major with interests in the development and application of machine learning algorithms.
Currently, in COINS lab, he is participating in the development and evaluation of methods for modeling skill knowledge representations.
COFOUNDERS
The Cognitive Informatics & Statistics (COINS) Lab was cofounded by Dr. Richard Golden and Mr. Athul Sudheesh in October 2018.