Northwestern University, Cognitive Systems

Morteza Dehghani

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I am a PhD student at Northwestern University`s Cognitive System`s division.

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

 

Education:

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Specialization in Cognitive Science

2005-2009                  Northwestern University      Evanston, IL

Advisor: Prof. Kenneth Forbus

M.S. in Computer Science, 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

 

Dissertation:

Dehghani, M. (2009). A Cognitive Model of Recognition-Based Moral Decision Making. Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Evanston, IL.

 

Journals and Selected Conferences:

Dehghani, M., Iliev, R., Sachdeva, S., Atran, S., Ginges, J. & Medin, D. (2009). Emerging

sacred values: Irans nuclear program. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 7, pp. 930-933.

 

Ekhtiari, H., Behzadi, A., Dehghani, M., Jannati, A. & Mokri, A. (2009). Prefer a cash slap

in your face over credit for halva. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 7, pp. 534-542

 

Dehghani, M., Forbus, K., Tomai, E. & Klenk, M. (in press). An Integrated Reasoning Ap-

proach to Moral Decision-Making. In Anderson, M., Anderson, S (Ed.) Machine Ethics.

Cambridge University Press.

 

Dehghani, M., Iliev, R., Kaufmann, S. (under review). When do we ``do``? Causal Explanation and Fact Mutability in Counterfactual Reasoning.

 

Dehghani, M., Unsworth, S., Lovett, A., Forbus, K. (under review). A Computational Approach for Automatic Cross Cultural Classifications of Ecological Mental Models. Cognitive Science.

 

Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K., Klenk, M. (2008). An Integrated Reasoning Approach to Moral Decision-Making. In the Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Chicago, IL. 24% acceptance rate [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. 15.6% acceptance rate [pdf]

 

Conference and Workshop Papers:

Dehghani, M., Gentner, D., Forbus, K., Ekhtiari, H., Sachdeva, S. (2009). Analogy and Moral Decision Making. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Analogy Conference. Sofia, Bulgaria.

 

Dehghani, M., Sachdeva, S., Ekhtiari, H., Gentner D., Forbus, K. (2009). The Role of Cultural Narratives in Moral Decision Making. To Appear In Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Washington, D.C. [pdf]

 

Dehghani, M., Iliev, R., Kaufmann, S. (2009). Causal Explanations in Counterfactual Reasoning. To Appear in the Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (CogSci). [pdf]

 

Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2009). QCM: A QP-Based Concept Map System. In

Proceedings of the 23nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR). [pdf]

 

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

Modeling Moral Decision-Making. 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. In 5th Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM). Annecy, France. [pdf]

 

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

tion of Three-Dimensional Design Sketches. In 22nd International Workshop on

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

 

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

 

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

 

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]

 

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]

 

Refereed Abstracts

 

Ekhtiari, H., Behzadi, A., Dehghani, M., Jannati, A., Mokri, A. (2009). The Difference between the Effects of Frequency and Amount of Punishment in Decision Making among Iranians. Member Abstract. To Appear in the Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (CogSci).

 

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

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

 

Non-Refereed Presentations

 

Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K. (2009). Modeling the Effects of Cultural Narratives on Moral Decision Making using MoralDM. Presented at a MURI Workshop on “Computational Models for Belief Revision, Group Decisions, and Cultural Shifts". MIT, MA.

 

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.