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Ronald P. Loui is a recognized innovator in artificial intelligence,
logic, and the mathematical foundations of social science.  He is
currently an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at
Washington University in St. Louis.  He is the author of over seventy
articles, some of which have appeared in his fields' best journals over
the past two decades:  AI Journal, Cognitive Science, Computational
Intelligence, Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Symbolic Logic, MIT
Encyclopedia on Cognitive Science, AI and Law, Theory and Decision, CACM,
ACM Computing Surveys, etc.  His work is consistently cited in
peer-reviewed journals; his work on mathematical argument has been used as
the basis for a dozen doctoral theses around the world in the past decade;
his 2003 ISI citation counts place him fifth in his department, above the
median for tenured faculty in his engineering school, and in the top-third
of U.S. computer science professors at NRC-ranked schools.  

This year, Professor Loui has been the invited speaker for the Spanish
national AI conference, an invited speaker at a conference on the
philosophy of AI, and an invited speaker at a University of Rochester
campus-wide event.  He is an editor and officer in the AI and Law
community.  He has been invited to lecture on five continents.

Professor Loui has taught AI programming at the graduate and undergraduate
level for fifteen years and has supervised numerous research efforts.  His
two doctoral students, Guillermo Simari and Gadi Pinkas, both won ACM
Doctoral Award nominations.  He has supervised three postdoctoral
visitors, contributed to external dissertations in Sweden, the
Netherlands, Germany, India, and Argentina.  His classes are known for
their emphasis on software design, and hundreds of students have pursued
innovative projects for course credit under his guidance.  He has
supervised dozens of undergraduate independent study projects and theses,
including running an NSF REU site for several summers and participating in
related activities, working with dozens of students from colleges such as
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and CalTech.
Professor Loui currently teaches a server-side and cgi scripting language
class, a web design class, computer skills service classes, and the
graduate automata and languages class, in addition to AI classes.  He has
an outstanding record of support for women and underrepresented minorities
in computer science.

Professor Loui is the only professor to compete solo in the departmental
programming contest and has the highest rate of wins per attempts of any
contestant.  He has contributed performance ideas to the current GNU
releases of gawk and malloc.  He contributes systems administration to
half a dozen instructional and research cycle servers and a dozen of his
own workstations.  He was the first professor in the department to move to
Linux, commodity hardware, thin clients, high performance servers,
scripting languages, cgi-based dynamic html, and other fast-prototype,
web-enabled, or cost-efficient workflow methods.

Four years ago, Professor Loui joined Professor Lockwood and two students
in the prototyping of FPGA's that could perform regular-expression string
manipulation on network content streams.  That work became the key
technology of two new companies that now partner with Washington
University in high-performance computing.  For the past several summers,
this collaboration has produced patents and papers, sponsored research,
hardware devices, student theses at all levels, and excitement in the
intelligence community, the gene-mapping community, and the intellectual
property community.  We are well positioned to produce immediate
applications as well as to introduce new paradigms for high data-rate,
non-iterative AI algorithms.

Professor Loui received his undergraduate degree at Harvard with high
honors in Applied Mathematics:  Decision and Control, 1982.  He received a
joint Computer Science and Philosophy doctoral degree from the University
of Rochester, after a Computer Science M.S., in 1987, supported on a grant
from the U.S. Army to his advisor, Henry Kyburg.  He was a Stanford Sloan
Fellow in 1988.  He has done research for Digital Equipment and Rockwell,
and has consulted for Xerox and McDonnell-Douglas.  He has at times
belonged to professional societies:  ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery), which awarded him a share of the George Forsythe Prize in
1982, AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence), which has
invited him to various conference committees, SIGART (ACM Special Interest
Group in Artificial Intelligence), which nominated him for an office,
IAAIL (International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law),
which had him host their international conference in 2001, KR (the
Conference for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning), which he helped
incorporate, SEP (Society for Exact Philosophy), which had him host their
annual conference in 2002, PSA (Philosopy of Science Association),
ORSA/TIMS (Operations Research Society of America/The Institute for
Management Science), and others.  He has been asked by faculty peers to be
Speaker of the Engineering Faculty Assembly, by the Dean to serve on
tenure committees, by the Chancellor to serve on a Board of Trustees
Committee, and by students to serve as an Associate to a freshman dorm.
Ronald Loui is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii.

(Professor Loui's research has to date yielded a few notable results.

First, he did seminal work on a mathematical model for argument and the
syntactic comparison of arguments (87, 92).  This work provides long-term
validation of the various nonmonotonic, and even belief revision,
paraconsistent, and dialogue logics that have been recently studied.  This
work possesses a process or dialectical theme that is somewhat new to the
formalization of reasoning (92, 95, 98).  

Second, in the modeling of legal reasoning, he is responsible for
representing the argumentative structure of the precedent case (93), for
some intellectual history regarding H.L.A. Hart (95), and for the
investigation of the rationales of rules and their use in formal
argumentation (95).

Third, in decision theory and operations research, results pertain to
stochastic shortest path problems (83), and decisionmaking with
indeterminate probabilities (86).  Current work is on real-time risk
analysis that considers the liability of the decisionmaker, and a
pessimism-punishment model of negotiation that depicts negotiation as a
controllable process rather than defines an equilibrium solution.

Fourth, with faculty colleagues in hardware and software, there are
results on (a) virtual memory optimizations for dynamically allocated
objects, and (b) methods for pattern-matching and string replacement on
the contents of packets in high bandwidth internet streams (01-03).  This
leads to current work on (c) heuristic optimization and learning
algorithms that trade iteration for access to homogeneous time series
data, and (d) high-level notations for representing user activity on
a network, and some unspecified government work.  

Fifth, there is current work on a notation for describing the procedural
fairness properties of games, in relation to monotonicities, stochastics,
and decisiveness.

Finally, he has taken a consistent position on the scope of computation:
specifically that it includes the social processes that are regulated by
explicit rules, and which have symbolic input and output.)


(My favorite academic moments have been:  being cited by Daniel Dennett;
being recognized by Lotfi Zadeh in random places; being recommended by
Judea Pearl; corresponding with Willard V.O. Quine; receiving mail from
John Harsanyi, John Watkins, and John Ladd, phone calls from Roderick
Chisholm and Robert Nozick, and email from Herbert Simon and Ken Arrow;
Herb Simon telling my brother during his visitor year to CMU that he
recognized the name; meeting with Sloan Committee chairman Amos Tversky
and reading all year with Patrick Suppes; working in France, Argentina,
the Netherlands, Italy, and Sweden; being visited by Fernando Tohme and
"other" Dutchmen, and watching Tuomas Sandholm grow; visiting Henry
Kyburg's farm, especially when Isaac Levi was there; and working with
some very special undergraduate co-authors.)