Erik Cambria (康文涵)
I received my BEng and MEng with honours in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genova, in 2005 and 2008 respectively. In 2011, I have been awarded my PhD in Computing Science and Mathematics, following the completion of an industrial Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE) research project, funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which was born from the collaboration between the University of Stirling, the MIT Media Laboratory, and Sitekit Solutions Ltd.
Today, I am a research scientist at the National University of Singapore, where I am one of the lead investigators of a new Cognitive Science Programme, co-funded by Singapore Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), at Temasek Laboratories. My interests include AI, Semantic Web, KR, NLP, opinion mining and sentiment analysis, affective and cognitive modelling, HCI, and e-health. I am also a fellow of the Brain Sciences Foundation (BSF) and chair of several international conferences, workshops, and symposia, e.g., the 2012 international conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS), the IEEE ICDM workshop series on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE), and the 2012 international symposium on Extreme Learning Machines (ELM).
I am editorial board of Springer Cognitive Computation and the Brain Sciences Journal (BSJ), guest editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems, and reviewer of other leading AI journals, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems. I am also a research affiliate at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Microsoft Research Asia, and HP Labs India, and coordinator of the Group of Italian Researchers in Singapore (GRIS).
