Biography
Dr. Thomas R. Ioerger is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S. degree in
1989 from Penn State in the area of Molecular and Cellular Biology. He
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in
1996, where he held an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Dr. Ioerger's research
interests are in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents,
and Machine Learning. His work has covered diverse areas, from spatial
reasoning, to simulating team-work, to modeling emotions. Currently, his
primary focus is on designing multi-agent system architectures to simulate
collaborative behavior and teamwork. He also applies AI and machine learning
methods to various problems in the area of Bioinformatics, including the
improvement of protein sequence alignments, molecular modeling, and X-ray
crystallography. The latter research has lead to the development of an
automated software system for protein model-building called TEXTAL, which
is currently being used by crystallographers throughout the world. He has
received multi-million dollar grants from both the National Institutes of
Health and from the Department of Defense for his work. Dr. Ioerger is a
member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and
the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).