Peter Cheng — Short Biography

Professor of Cognitive Science

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

2003—   Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex.

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/Reader
    1992-1999. Research Fellow.

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.

Honours

• Invited Keynote talks:

• SetVR 2018: International Workshop on Set Visualization and Reasoning, Edinburgh, UK, 18 June 2018.
• 5th Multimedia and HCI conference, Madrid August 2018
  

• Society Chair and Executive Committee Member, Cognitive Science Societ. 2009-11.

• Member Cognitive Science Society Governing Board 2004-2011

• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Jerome H. Ely Award for Best Paper in Human Factors, 2004
  

• Editorial board of reviewers for Cognitive Science, 2001-09.

• 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 Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1990-1992

• Science and Engineering Research Council Studentship, 1988-1990

• British Academy Award, 1987-88

• Goldsmid Prize in Mechanical Engineering, 1984/85 .

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

Peter Cheng    12/03/16