Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Learning, expertise acquisition
• Cognitive modelling
• Knowledge Representation
• Creativity, Analogical Thinking, Problem Solving

Education

2010 (expected)

Ph.D. in Cognitive Science
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

May 2005

M.Sc. in Computer Science, minor in Artificial Intelligence
UNAM, Mexico city, DF, Mexico
Thesis work on Creativity modelling.
Graduated with honours.

Oct. 2000

Honours degree in Mathematics
UNAM, Mexico city, DF, Mexico
Award-winning thesis work.

Research Experience

2007 – current

Research Assistant, Cognitive Modeling Laboratory, Institute of Cognitive Science,
Carleton University.

2007 – current

Research Assistant, Network Management and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University.

2007

Research Assistant. Natural Language Integration Group, Human Oriented Technology
Lab, Carleton University.

Publications

E. Acosta, and R. Pérez y Pérez(2006) “The Geometrician: a Computer Prototype of Problem Solving in Geometry Construction.” In Sun, R. ed. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society., p. 2435.

Conference Presentations

E. Acosta, and R. Pérez y Pérez (2005) The Geometrician: a computer model for problem solving in the field of geometry, Computational Creativity Workshop, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Non-refereed posters

Acosta, Edgar (2007). Gradience of Acceptability Judgements in Spanish. Cognitive Science Spring Conference. Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University. http://www.carleton.ca/ics/springconference/

J. Lucas, and E. Acosta (2006). The effects of switching encoding in Proactive Interference. Cognitive Science Spring Conference. Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University.

Talks

Acosta,Edgar (2008) Inductive Reasoning, Feature Selection and Feature Discovery Institute of Cognitive Science Winter Colloquium Series. Carleton University.