Ron Sun

Ron Sun is a well known cognitive scientist and currently Professor of Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and formerly the James C. Dowell Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at University of Missouri. He received his Ph.D in 1992 from Brandeis University.

His research interests center around the study of human cognition and psychology, especially in the areas of cognitive architectures, human reasoning and learning, cognitive social simulation, and hybrid connectionist-symbolic models. Over the years, his work has been wide-ranging, and spans cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence, and social sciences.

He has been known for his work in cognitive modeling (computational psychology). For his paper on integrating rule-based and connectionist models for accounting for human everyday reasoning, he received the 1991 David Marr Award from Cognitive Science Society. For his work on human skill learning, he received the 2008 Hebb Award from the International Neural Network Society. In 2013, he received a Leadership and Vision award from the president of INNS. He is an IEEE Fellow and a fellow of Association for Psychological Science.

He was the founding co-editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Systems Research, and serves on the editorial boards of many other journals. He was the general chair and the program chair of CogSci 2006, and the program chair of IJCNN 2007. He was a member of the Governing Boards of Cognitive Science Society and of International Neural Networks Society. He served as the president of INNS for two years from January 2011 to December 2012.

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