Gerald DeJong received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the U of I and a full-time Beckman Institute faculty member in the Artificial Intelligence group. His fields of professional interest are machine learning, planning, robotics, plausible inference, artificial intelligence, and cognitive modeling.
Honors: Achievement award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for contribution to "Advanced Development for the Deep Space Mission System" (1999); Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (1994); Alcoa Foundation Faculty Recognition Grant (1989); Arnold O. Beckman Research Award (1984); and Exxon Faculty Assistance Grant (1982).