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Christopher L. Simpkins Research Scientist, Ph.D. Student GTRI email: chris dot simpkins at gtri dot gatech dot edu CoC email: simpkins at cc dot gatech dot edu

Chris Simpkins has a shared appointment as a Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and College of Computing, and is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science under Dr. Charles Isbell. Mr. Simpkins completed his Master of Science in Computer Science in 2004 specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Understanding, and Information Retrieval. A 1990 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Mr. Simpkins's background includes teaching, flying, and software engineering. During his 12 years of professional software engineering experience, Mr. Simpkins has built and delivered more than a half-dozen successful enterprise-scale production systems, for most of which he was the chief architect or a lead software engineer. Mr. Simpkins has been a key player on over 25 research proposals, including 13 for which he was a lead or co-Principal Investigator.

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages, Machine Learning, Multi-agent Systems, Computer Science Education, Cognitive Science, Human Language Technology, and Information Retrieval. Read more.

Education

Ph.D., College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, In Progress
M.S., Computer Science, Southern Polytechnic State University, 2004
B.S., U.S. Air Force Academy, 1990

Personal

I have two wonderful kids, a magnificent German Shepherd, and two delightful cats. In addition to computer science, I enjoy chess, martial arts, mountain biking, scuba diving, I'm an assistant coach for my son's junior wrestling team, a volunteer with the Georgia Ballet Guild, a volunteer webmaster for Simpson Middle School PTSA, and I'm a professionally-trained Hip Hop dancer. I have a family website, mostly so friends and family can see the latest pictures of the kids, at www.simpkins.org