Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Artificial Intelligence, Informatics, and Robotics (AIR) Lab
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Spelman College
williams at spelman.edu
http://www.spelman.edu/~williams
350 Spelman Lane SW, Box 217, Atlanta, GA 30314
Research and Teaching Interests
My research and teaching interests are in distributed artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, cognitive robotics, and bioinformatics.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
- Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
- Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
SpelBots Robotics Team
I founded and continue to coach the SpelBots Robotics Team, the first all-women and African American undergraduate team to compete in the International RoboCup Four-Legged Soccer Competition in Osaka, Japan (2005) and Bremen, Germany (2006). We recently earned 2nd place in the RoboCup 2007 Atlanta Technical Challenge Passing Challenge event. Watch the video recap:
Computer and Robotics Education (C.A.R.E.) for African American Students
I am the Principal Investigator for this National Science Foundation (NSF) Broadening Partipation in Computing funded project. This project is being conducted with Carnegie Mellon University and has three components:
- C.A.R.E. Tekkotsu Robotics - Robotics education and curriculum for HBCUs
- C.A.R.E. Camp - A computer animation, leadership, and robotics day camp for middle school students
- C.A.R.E. Olympiad - A five event computer and robotics competition for HBCUs