N. Hari Narayanan is Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Innovations in Mobile, Pervasive and Agile Computing Technologies at Auburn University. He served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) during 2005-06, managing research programs at the intersection of computing technologies and learning sciences. While there, he helped develop the Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program and co-managed four national research programs with a total budget of over 14 million dollars. His interdisciplinary, cross-directorate work at the foundation was recognized by the NSF Director's Award for Collaborative Integration in 2006.
His research spans Learning Science and Technology, Cognitive Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. He has over hundred publications (cited more than 1000 times according to Google Scholar; G-Index: 23; H-Index: 14), and has presented invited lectures in Bulgaria, France, India, Japan, Korea, Poland and the U. S. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Institute of Education Sciences (US Department of Education), Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense, Government of South Korea, the Gates Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation, with awards totaling over six million dollars. He leads a NSF-supported national computing education research project involving fifteen institutions in seven states (www.studiobasedlearning.org). His research contributions were recognized by the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering through a Junior Faculty Engineering Research Excellence Award (2001) and a Senior Faculty Engineering Research Excellence Award (2005). He established the Intelligent and Interactive Systems Research Group in the CSSE Department in 1997, and currently directs the Intelligent and Interactive Systems Laboratory.
He received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. He then attended Indian Institute of Science and University of Rochester, earning the degrees of M.E. (Automation) and M.S. (Computer Science). He received a doctorate in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. His doctoral research was on the topic of how humans and machines represent, reason with, and communicate using diagrams. He subsequently played a significant role in the development of the interdisciplinary field of diagrammatic reasoning, organizing the first meeting on the topic in 1992 that eventually led to a biennial conference series, and the publication of an influential edited collection. During 1992-96 he was a Visiting Research Scientist at the Advanced Research Laboratory of Hitachi Ltd. in Japan, Visiting Scholar at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, and Postdoctoral Fellow and later Research Scientist at the EduTech Institute, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Auburn in Fall 1996.
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