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Biographical Sketch
Dr. Graesser is presently a full professor in the Department of Psychology and an adjunct professor in Computer Science at The University of Memphis. He is currently a co-director of the Institute for Intelligent Systems, chair of the Department of Psychology, and director of the Center for Applied Psychological Research. In 1977 Dr. Graesser received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at San Diego. He was a visiting researcher at Yale University in 1983, Stanford University in 1984, and Carnegie Mellon University in 1991.
Dr. Graesser's primary research interests are in cognitive science and discourse processing. More specific interests include knowledge representation, question asking and answering, tutoring, text comprehension, inference generation, conversation, reading, education, memory, expert systems, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. He is currently editor of the journal Discourse Processes.
In addition to publishing nearly 300 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings, he has written 2 books and has edited 8 books (the most recent one being the Handbook of Discourse Processes). He has designed, developed, and tested cutting edge software in learning, language, and discourse technologies, including AutoTutor, Coh-Metrix, HURA Advisor, Question Understanding Aid (QUAID), QUEST, and Point&Query.
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