Peter Cheng — Short Biography

Professor of Cognitive Science

Director: Representational Systems Laboratory

Founding member: Representation and Cognition Group

Education

1988-90 PhD in Artificial Intelligence. Thesis title: Modelling Scientific Discovery

Open University, Department of Psychology, Human Cognition Research Laboratory.

1986-88 MA Philosophy. University of Warwick.

1983-86 BSc(Eng) Mechanical Engineering, University College London.  1^st Class Honours.

Employment

1999-2003 ESRC Centre for Research in Development, Instruction and Training

Deputy Director CREDIT, School of Psychology,University of Nottingham.
1999-2003. Senior Research Fellow (permanent).
1992-1999. Research Fellow (permanent).

1990-92 SERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow.  

Collaboration with Prof. Herbert A. Simon on computational scientific discovery.
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

1990 Consultant. Institute of Education Technology, The Open University.

1986 (Summer) Department of Trade and Industry, Warren Spring Laboratory, Stevenage.

1985 (Summer) U.K. Atomic Energy Authority, AERE Harwell, Oxfordshire

1984 (Summer) Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Ontario.

1982-83 U.K. Atomic Energy Authority, AERE Harwell, Oxfordshire.

Honours

• Member Cognitive Science Society Governing Board 2004-

• Editorial board of reviewers for Cognitive Science, 2001- .

• Programme committee member, Annual Meeting of the Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

• EPSRC Peer Review College, 2003-.

• Co-chair. Diagrams 2000: First International conference on the theory and application of diagrams. 

• Founding steering group member of the Diagrams conference series.

• Science and Engineering Research Council Studentship, 1988-1990

• Bristish Academy Award, 1987-88

• Goldsmid Prize in Mechanical Engineering, 1984/85 .

• U.K. Atomic Energy Authority Studentship, 1982-86.

Peter Cheng    28/4/04 (18/10/03)