Northwestern University, Cognitive Systems

Morteza Dehghani

I am a PhD student at Northwestern University’s Qualitative Reasoning Group.

My research interests include moral decision making, counterfactual reasoning and belief revision. Here is my CV.

 

Education:

Ph.D. in Computer Science, in progress

2005-                        Northwestern University      Evanston, IL

Advisor: Prof. Kenneth Forbus

M.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, June 2008

2005-2008                  Northwestern University      Evanston, IL

Advisor: Prof. Kenneth Forbus

M.S. in Computer Science, March 2005

2003-2005                  University of California, Los Angeles      Los Angeles, CA

Advisor: Prof. Adnan Darwiche

B.S. in Computer Science, Technical Minor in Mathematics

2001-2003                  University of California, Los Angeles       Los Angeles, CA

 

Conference and Workshop Papers:

 

Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K., Iliev, R., Klenk, M. (2008). MoralDM: A Computational Modal of Moral Decision-Making. Abstract accepted at the 2008 meeting of Society of Judge and Decision Making (SJDM). Chicago, IL.

 

Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K., Klenk, M. (2008). Order of Magnitude Reasoning in

Modeling Moral Decision-Making. To appear in 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative

Reasoning (QR). Boulder, CO. [pdf]

 

Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., Forbus, K., Usher, J., Dehghani, M. (2008). Automatic Interpretation of Depiction Conventions in Sketched Diagrams. To appear in 5th Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM). Annecy, France.

 

Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2008). Building and Comparing Qualitative Descrip-

tion of Three-Dimensional Design Sketches. To appear in 22nd International Workshop on

Qualitative Reasoning (QR). Boulder, CO.

 

Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., Forbus, K., Dehghani, M., Usher, J. (2008). The Theory of Depiction for Sketches of Physical Systems. To appear in 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR). Boulder, CO.

 

Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K., Klenk, M. (2008). An Integrated Reasoning Approach to Moral Decision-Making. To appear in Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Chicago, IL. [pdf]

 

Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K., Iliev, R., Klenk, M. (2008). MoralDM: A Computational Modal of Moral Decision-Making. To appear in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Washington, D.C. [pdf]

 

Dehghani, M., Iliev, R., Kaufmann, S. (2008). Causal Explanations and Backward Counter-

factuals. Member Abstract. To appear in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (CogSci), Washington, D.C.

 

Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2007). Modeling Human-Like Rates

of Learning via Analogical Generalization. Proceedings of Analogies: Integrating Multiple

Cognitive Abilities. Nashville, TN. [pdf]

 

Dehghani, M., Iliev, R., Kaufmann, S. (2007). Effects of Fact Mutability in the Interpretation of Counterfactuals. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Nashville, TN. [pdf]

 

Dehghani, M., Unsworth, S., Lovett, A., Forbus, K. (2007). Capturing and Categorizing Mental Models of Food Webs using QCM. 21st International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR). Aberystwyth, U.K. [pdf]

 

Forbus, K., Lockwood, K., Tomai, E., Dehghani, M., Czyz, J. (2007) Machine Reading as

a Cognitive Science Research Instrument. AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Reading.

Stanford University, CA. [pdf]

 

Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2007). Constructing Spatial Representations of Variable Detail for Sketch Recognition. AAAI Spring Symposium on Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems. Stanford University, CA. [pdf]

 

Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2007). Incremental Learning of Perceptual Categories for Open-Domain Sketch Recognition. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Hyderabad, India. [pdf]

 

Dehghani, M., Lovett, A. (2006). Efficient Genre Classification using Qualitative Represen-

tations. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (IS-MIR). Victoria, Canada. [pdf]

 

Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2006). Efficient Learning of Qualitative Descriptions for Sketch Recognition. 20th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR). Hanover, NH. [pdf]

 

Non-Refereed Presentations

 

Dehghani, M., Unsworth, S., Lovett, A., Forbus, K. (2007). Capturing and Categorizing Mental Models of Food Webs using QCM. Presented at a MURI Workshop on "Computational Models for Belief Revision, Group Decisions, and Cultural Shifts". Northwestern University, IL.

 

Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2006). VModel Pro: A Concept Map System for Capturing Human Mental Models. 20th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Hanover, NH.

 

Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2006). VModel Pro: A Concept Map System for Capturing Hu-

man Mental Models. Presented at a MURI Workshop on "Computational Models for Belief

Revision, Group Decisions, and Cultural shifts". MIT, MA.