Research Scientist

Will joined IHMC as a Research Scientist in January 2025 working with Dr. Ian Perera and human-machine communications and language processing team. He was drawn to IHMC by the Institute’s approach to artificial intelligence, its applications, and its philosophy. He says he has been greatly influenced by Senior Research Scientists Emeritus Dr. Pat Hayes and Dr. James Allen.

Broadly his research interests include computational narrative, design creativity, game augmented intelligence, and event representation and understanding. Will studies knowledge representation and learning, though he is particularly interested in studying episodic memory in people and using this knowledge to build better AI systems.

He is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He earned a master’s and bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and children and loves the outdoors. He is a guitar player and amateur bicycle mechanic who love traveling on his bike, having ridden through Scotland, Japan, and in 2013 from Atlanta to Los Angeles.