University System of Georgia Format for New Program Proposal

Educaiton

BA, Emory University (1992)
PhD, Philosophy, Duke University (2001)

2. Teaching Load 3 courses/yr

Phil 2010 Intro to Philosophy

Phil 4000/6000MA seminar

Phil 4330Philosophy of Mind class.

3. Scholarship and Publications

= refereed • = invited

“The Psychology of Free Will.” Forthcoming in Oxford Handbook on Philosophy of Psychology, ed. by J. Prinz (Oxford University Press).

“Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Mechanism: Experiments on Folk Intuitions.” (with D. Justin Coates and Trevor Kvaran). Midwest Studies in Philosophy 31: 214-242, 2007.

“The Past and Future of Experimental Philosophy.” (with Thomas Nadelhoffer). Philosophical Explorations 10(2): 123-149, 2007.

“Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?” (with Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, & Jason Turner).

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73(1): 28-53, 2006. Reprinted in Experimental Philosophy, ed. by S. Nichols and J. Knobe (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

“Close Calls and the Confident Agent: Free Will, Deliberation, and Alternative Possibilities.” Philosophical Studies 131(3): 627-667, 2006.

“Autonomous Agency and Social Psychology.” In Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection, ed. by M. Marraffa, M. Caro, and F. Ferretti (Springer, 2007), 169-185.

“Are the Folk Agent Causationists?” (with Jason Turner). Mind and Language 21(5): 597-609, 2006.

“Folk Fears about Freedom and Responsibility: Determinism vs. Reductionism.” Journal of Cognition and Culture 6(1-2): 215-237, 2006.

“The Problem of Pain.” In New Essays on the Nature of Pain and the Methodology of its Study, ed. by M. Aydede (MIT Press, 2005), 307-314.

“Agency, Authorship, and Illusion.” Consciousness and Cognition 14(4): 771-785, December 2005.

“Surveying Freedom: Folk Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility.” (with Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, & Jason Turner). Philosophical Psychology 18(5): 561-584, October 2005.

“Review of Freedom and Determinism.” Notre Dame Philosophical Review, June 2005.

“Some Practical Suggestions for Teaching Small Philosophy Classes.” Teaching Philosophy 28(1): 59-65, March 2005.

“The Phenomenology of Free Will.” (with Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, and Jason Turner). Journal of Consciousness Studies 11(7-8): 162-179, July/August 2004. Reprinted in Trusting the Subject, Vol. 2., ed. by A. Jack and A. Roepstorff (Imprint Academic, 2004), 162-179.

“When Consciousness Matters: A Critical Review of Daniel Wegner’s The Illusion of Conscious Will.” Philosophical Psychology 15(4): 527-541, December 2002.

“Verbal Reports on the Contents of Consciousness: Reconsidering Introspectionist Methodology.” Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness, 8(21), October 2002.

“Is Human Intelligence an Adaptation? Cautionary Observations from the Philosophy of Biology.”

(with Owen Flanagan & Valerie Hardcastle). In The Evolution of Intelligence, ed. by R. Sternberg and J. Kaufman (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001), 199-222.

“Darwin’s Continuum and the Building Blocks of Deception.” (with Güven Güzeldere & Rob Deaner). In The Cognitive Animal, ed. by C. Allen, M. Bekoff, and G. Burghardt (MIT Press, 2001), 353-362.

4.  Professional activity;

AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

Research Initiation Grant (RIG): “Defending Free Will from the Sciences of the Mind” (2007)

Brains & Behavior Seed Grant, Co-PI on a $30,000 grant to initiate research project: “Neurobiological, Emotional, and Cognitive Components of Social Anxiety: Behavioral and fMRI Studies” (2005-2006)

Superior Honors Teaching Award, for best teacher in the FSU Honors Program (2002-2003)

First-Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Research Grant, FSU (2002)

W. Bernard Peach Instructor, Duke University Teaching Fellowship (2000-2001)

James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University (1995-1999)

Kenan Ethics Program, Graduate Student Colloquium Award, Duke University (2000-2001)

APA Travel Grant, Eastern Division (2000)

SSPP Travel Grant (2001)

AAPT Teaching Seminar for Graduate Students, APA Travel Grant (2000)

Bobby Jones Scholarship, St. Andrews University (1992-1993)

Means Scholarship (full tuition), Emory University (1988-92)

National Merit Scholarship (1988-92)

Georgia Governor’s Scholar (1988-92)

Phi Beta Kappa, Emory University (initiated 1990)

NEH Younger Scholars Grant (1991)
1. Name, rank, discipline

Michael J. Owren, Associate Professor, Psychology
Education

Reed College: B.A. Psychology

Indiana University: Ph.D. Experimental Psychology
2. Teaching load 4 courses/yr:

Psyc 1100 Natural Science Aspects of Psychology

Psyc 4100 Cognitive Psychology

Psyc 9900: Special Topics in Cognition

Bachorowski, J.-A., & Owren, M. J. (2008). Emotion in speech. L. R. Squire (Ed.), New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, (pp. XX-XX). Elsevier Science, Oxford, UK. (in press, expected Oct 2008)

Makagon, M. M., Funayama, E. S., & Owren, M. J. (2008). An acoustic analysis of laughter produced by congenitally deaf and normally hearing college student. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. (in press)

Owren, M. J. (2008). GSU Praat Tools: Scripts for modifying and analyzing sounds using Praat acoustics software. Behavior Research Methods. (in press)

Owren, M. J., & Goldstein, M. H. (2008). The babbling-scaffold hypothesis: Subcortical primate-like circuitry helps teach the human cortex how to talk. In D. K. Oller, & U. Griebel (Eds.), Evolution of communicative flexibility: Complexity, creativity, and adaptability in human and animal communication (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, vol. 5; pp. 418-474). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (in press, expected June 2008)

Bachorowski, J.-A., & Owren, M. J. (2008). Vocal expressions of emotion. Lewis, M., Haviland-Jones, J. M., & Barrett, L. F. (Eds.), The handbook of emotion, 3rd Edition, (pp. XX-XX). New York: Guilford. (in press, expected Apr 2008)

Bachorowski, J.-A., & Owren, M. J. (2007). Emotion-related vocal acoustics: Cue-configuration, dimensional, and affect-induction perspectives. In K. Izdebski (Ed.), Emotions in the human voice (pp. 87-99). San Diego: Plural Publishing.

Owren, M. J., & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2007). Measuring emotion-related vocal acoustics. In J. Coan, & J. Allen (Eds.), Handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment (pp. 239-266; Oxford University Press Series in Affective Science). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Owren, M. J., Berkowitz, M., & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2007). Listeners judge talker sex more efficiently from male than from female vowels. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 930-941.

Patel, E. R., & Owren, M. J. (2007). Acoustic and behavioral analyses of gecker distress vocalizations in young rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 575-585.

Riede, T. R., & Arcadi, A., & Owren, M. J. (2007). Nonlinear acoustics in the pant-hoot vocalizations of common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), II: Vocalizing at the edge. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 1758-1767.

Owren, M. J., & Cardillo, G. C. (2006). The relative roles of vowels and consonants in discriminating talker identity versus word meaning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 1727-1739.

Owren, M. J., Rendall, D., & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2005). Conscious and unconscious emotion in nonlinguistic vocal communication. L. F. Barrett, P. Niedenthal, & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Emotion and Consciousness (pp. 185-204). New York: Guilford Publications.

Riede, T. R., Mitchell, B., Tokuda, I., & Owren, M. J. (2005). Characterizing noise in nonhuman vocalizations: Acoustic analysis and human perception of dog and coyote barks. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 514-522.

Riede, T. R., & Owren, M. J., Clark Arcadi, A. (2004). Nonlinear acoustics in the pant-hoot vocalizations of common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Frequency jumps, subharmonics, biphonation, and deterministic chaos. American Journal of Primatology, 64, 277-291.

Rendall, D., Owren, M. J., Weerts, E., & Hienz, R. D. (2004). Sex differences in the acoustic structure of vowel-like grunt vocalizations in baboons and their perceptual discrimination by baboon listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 411-421.

Nicastro, N., & Owren, M. J. (2003). Classification of domestic cat (Felis catus) vocalizations by naïve and experienced human listeners. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117, 44-52.

Owren, M. J., & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2003). Reconsidering the evolution of nonlinguistic communication: The case of laughter. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 27, 183-200.

Owren, M. J., & Rendall, D. (2003). Salience of caller identity in rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) coo and screams: Perceptual experiments with human listeners. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117, 380-390.

Owren, M. J., Rendall, D., & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2003). Nonlinguistic vocal communication. In D. Maestripieri (Ed.), Primate psychology (pp. 353-394). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Bachorowski, J.-A., & Owren, M. J. (2003). The sounds of emotion: Production and perception of affect-related vocal acoustics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1000, 244-265.

Dale, R., Richardson, D. C., & Owren, M. J. (2003). Pumping for gestural origins: The well may be rather dry. Commentary on “From mouth to hand: Gesture, speech, and the evolution of right-handedness,” by M. C. Corballis. Behavioural & Brain Sciences, 26, 218-219.

Owren, M. J. (2003). Vocal production and perception in nonhuman primates provide clues about early hominids and speech evolution. ATR Symposium HIS Series, 1, 1-19.
4. Professional Activity

Professional journal editorial boards

Emotion Review, 2007 to present

Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2005 to present

Psychological Science, 2003 to 2006

Office of Naval Research, National Oceanographic Partnership Program, grant review panel. Mar 2007

NIH/NCCR Site Review Panel, Brain, Mind, and Behavior Unit of the California National Primate Research Center, University of California. Davis, CA, Sept 2004

Office of Naval Research Marine Mammal Science and Technology Program, Environmental Consequences of Underwater Sound (ECOUS) Symposium. San Antonio, TX, May 2003

President, Emotion Research Group, 2007-2008

Treasurer, Emotion Research Group, 2006-2007

“Rapporteur,” Dr. Laurence Henry’s “Habilitation Dirigere Recherche” committee, Institute of Evolution, Ethology, and Ecology, University of Rennes, Rennes, France, 2006.

Symposium organizer, “Emotion expression in nonhuman primates.” International Society for Research in Emotion meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2006.

Session moderator, American Society of Primatology meeting, Portland, OR, 2005

Session moderator, American Society of Primatology meeting, Calgary, Alberta, 2003
1.  Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;
Yi Pan, Chair and Professor, Computer Science

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, August 1991.
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1988.
M.E. in Computer Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1984.
B.E. in Computer Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1982
2.  Teaching load 1 course/yr

Theoretical Foundations of Computer Sci.

High Performance Computational Biology

3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years;

X. Wang, P. Fan and Y. Pan, "A More Realistic Thinning Scheme for Call
Admission Control in Multimedia Wireless Networks" IEEE Transactions on
Computers, accepted.

L. Tan, L. Jin, and Y. Pan, "Efficient Placement of Web Proxies for

Wei-Hung Lin, Shi-Jinn Horng, Tzong-Wann Kao, Pingzhi Fan, Cheng-Ling Lee,

Stephen Pellicer, Guihai Chen, Keith C.C. Chan, and Yi Pan, "Distributed

Xian Wang, Pingzhi Fan, Jie Li, and Yi Pan, ``Modeling and Cost Analysis

Yong Li, Xiujuan Chen, Saeid Belkasim, and Yi Pan, ``High Performance

Chao Xie, Guihai Chen, Art Vandenberg, and Yi Pan, "Analysis of Hybrid P2P

Peter Loh, Say Huan Long, and Yi Pan, "Performance Evaluation of Efficient

Muhammad Qadeer Sharif, Pingzhi Fan, and Pan Yi, ``On Average Waiting Time

P. Loh, W.J. Hsu, and Yi Pan, ``Reliable and Efficient Communications in

W. Zhong, G. Altun, X. Tian, R. Harrison1, P. C. Tai, and Yi Pan,

Hae-Jin Hu, Jeanetta Holley, Jieyue He, Robert W. Harrison, Hsiuchin Yang,

A. K. Katangur, S. Akkaladevi, and Yi Pan, ``Analyzing the Performance of

A. Du, X. Hu and Y. Pan, "Prediction of the disulfide bridges in proteins

Y. Dai, Y. Pan, and X.K. Zou, "A Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for

J. Fan, X. Lin, Yi Pan, and X. Jia, "Optimal Fault-Tolerant Embedding of

J. Xia, P. Fan, M. Q. Sharif, and Yi Pan, "Shared Dynamic Spectrum

W. Zhong, J. He, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai, and Y. Pan, "Clustering Support

Yang Xiao, Chaitanya Bandela, Xiaojiang Du, Yi Pan, and Edilbert Kamal

L. Qin, Y. Chen, Y. Pan, and L. Chen, ``A Novel Approach to Phylogenetic

Ling Qin, Yi Pan, Ling Chen, and Yixin Chen, ``An improved ant colony

X. Jin, Y. Zhang, Y. Pan, and Y. Zhou, "ZSBT: A Novel Algorithm for

H. Tian, A. Katangur, J. Zhong, and Y. Pan, ``A Novel Multistage Network

J. He, H. Hu, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai, and Yi Pan, ``Rule Generation for

J. He, H. Hu, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai, and Yi Pan, "Transmembrane Segments

X. Fu and A. G. Bourgeois, P. Fan, and Yi Pan, ``Using a genetic algorithm

Yang Xiao, Kin K. Leung, Yi Pan, Xiaojiang Du, ``Architecture, mobility

V. Kolli, H. Liu, J. He, M. Pan, and Yi Pan, "Calculating Genomic

Wei Zhong, Gulsah Altun, Robert Harrison, Phang C. Tai, and Yi Pan,

Ajay K Katangur, Somasheker Akkaladevi, Yi Pan, Martin D. Fraser,

P. Loh, W. Hsu and Y. Pan, "The Exchanged Hypercube," IEEE Transactions on

M. Guo and Y. Pan, "Improving Communication Scheduling for Array

Y. Xiao and Y. Pan, ``Differentiation, QoS guarantee, and Optimization for

C. Ni, H. Liu, A. G. Bourgeois, and Y. Pan, ``An Enhanced Approach to

A. G. Bourgeois, Y. Pan, and S. K. Prasad, ``Constant Time Fault Tolerant

J. Li, Yi Pan, and Y. Xiao, "Performance Study of Multiple Route Dynamic

Y. Xiao, H. Li, C. L. P. Chen, B. Wang, and Y. Pan, "Proportional

H. Hu, Yi Pan, R. Harrison, and P. C. Tai, "Improved Protein Secondary

L. Chen, Y. Pan, and X. Xu, "Scalable and Efficient Parallel Algorithms

Y. Xiao, H. Li, Y. Pan, K. Wu, and J. Li, "On Optimizing Energy

L. Chen, Y. Pan, Y. Chen, and X. Xu, ``An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for

Y. Xiao, Y. Pan, and J. Li, "Design and Analysis of Location Management

L. Chen and H. Chen, Y. Pan, and Y. Chen, "A Fast Efficient Parallel Hough

Yi Pan, Constantinos S. Ierotheou, Majeed M. Hayat, "Parallel

Ajay K Katangur, Yi Pan, Martin D. Fraser, ''Simulated Annealing Routing

Y. Luo, Y. Pan, J. Li, Y. Xiao, and X. Lin, "A simulation study of

4.  Professional activity;

Dr. Pan has served as an editor-in-chief for two journals, a series
editor for 3 book series, and an editorial board member for 15
journals including 5 IEEE Transactions. He has organized
over 20 international conferences and workshops and has also served as a
program committee member for many major international conferences.

1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, April, 1987

Senior Undergraduate Classical Mechanics (4600 &7600)

Teaching Physics for Graduate Students ( Phys 6300 )

Graduate Solid State Physics (Phys 8510)

Undergraduate Solid State Physics ( Phys 6910)

Modern Physics Laboratory

Astronomy Laboratory
3. Scholarship and publications:

ACTIVE RESEARCH CONTRACTS & GRANT SUPPORT

EXTERNAL
NDP Optronics LLC - “Polarization agile dual band infrared sensors” 09/15/07-03/31/08, $31,302 (President NDP & GSU PI: A. G. U. Perera, Project Director: V. Apalkov, a subcontract from the STTR Phase I grant awarded to NDP Optronics LLC from the U.S. Air Force).

National Science Foundation (NSF) “Investigation of a Novel Quantum Dot Tunnel Detector for the Terahertz Range “, 09/01/06-08/31/09, $270,000 (PI: Pallab Bhattacharya –Univ. Michigan, A. G. U. Perera Co- PI).

National Science Foundation (NSF) - ECS 0553051 “Nanostructure based Terahertz Detector Development”, 04/01/06 - 03/31/09, $240,000+$45,000 (PI).

NDP Optronics LLC - “UV-IR Dual Band Detectors” 4/01/06-3/31/08, $167,302 (President NDP & GSU PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co PI: Nikolaus Dietz, a subcontract from the SBIR Phase II grant awarded to NDP Optronics LLC from the U.S. Air Force, $750,000, 04/01/06-03/31/08).

National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, OISE - 0543257, “ QWIP 2006: International Conference on Quantum Well Infrared Phtodetectors- 2006”, 10/01/05 - 09/30/08, $54,000 + $3,000 (PI).

Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Innovation Fund, GRA. IC07.C, “UV-IR Dual Band Detector Development”, 07/01/06 - 06/30/08, $100,000 (PI).
INTERNAL
Georgia-State University Chancellor's Initiative Fund, “Research in Interactions of Radiation with Matter”, 07/01/05 - , $87,000 per year converted to permanent funding (PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co-PIs: Xiaochun He, S. Manson, W. H. Nelson, M. Stockman, and N. Dietz).

PREVIOUS RESEARCH CONTRACTS & GRANT SUPPORT (within 5 Years)

NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory – 1279663, “ QWIP 2006: International Conference on Quantum Well Infrared Phtodetectors- 2006”, 12/1/05 - 12/31/07, $20,000 (PI).

U.S. Air Force, FA9550-05-1-0493, “International Conference on Quantum Well Infrared Photo- detectors- 2006”, 09/30/05 - 09/29/06, $16,000 (PI).

National Science Foundation (NSF ) “International Co-operative Research on Dye-Sensitized Structures”, 9/1/03-8/31/07, $39,900+$2,775(PI).

EPIR Technologies “ International Conference on Quantum Well Infrared Phtodetectors- 2006”, 03/01/06 - 11/30/07, $10,000 (PI).

U.S. Army, W911NF-05-1-0336  “International Conference on Quantum Well Infrared Phtodetectors- 2006”, 6/01/05 - 08/31/06, $10,000 (PI).

NDP Optronics LLC, “UV-1R Dual Band Detectors”, 4/15/05-1/15/06, $16,950 ((President NDP & GSU PI: A. G. U. Perera, a subcontract from the SBIR Phase I grant awarded to NDP Optronics LLC from the U.S. Air Force, $99,000, 4/15/05-4/14/06)).

NSF “Research Experience for undergraduates (REU)”, supplement, 05/01/04-08/31/06, $8,000 (PI).

National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, INT 03 - 0322355, “US-Sri Lanka Cooperative Research: Study of dye-sensitized semiconductor nanostructure”, 09/01/03 - 08/31/05, $39,900 + $5,000 (PI).

National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, ECS 01 - 40343, “Novel Heterojunction IR detectors”, 9/1/02-8/31/05, $225,000 + $50,000 (PI).

NSF “Research Experience for undergraduates (REU)”, supplement, 12/1/02-08/31/05, $28,000 (PI).

NSF “Research Experience for Teachers (RET)”, supplement, 04/1/04-08/31/05, $12,000 (PI).

NDP Optronics LLC, ``Novel FIR Detectors with response up to 300 microns”, 01/16/04-07/19/04, $9,960 (President NDP & GSU PI: A. G. U. Perera, a subcontract from the SBIR Phase I grant awarded to NDP Optronics LLC from NASA, $69,000,1/16/04-7/19/04).

US Army Battelle Scientific Service Program and NDP Optronics LLC, “Heterojunction infrared detector for 8- 20 µm range” Contract # DAAD19-02-D-0001, 8/8/02 - 07/08/03, $11,780 (PI).

INTERNAL
Georgia-State University Research Equipment Grant, “Magnetic Field Effects on Semiconductors leading to Novel Infrared and Spintronic Devices”, 5/1/06 – 6/30/06 , $30,000 (PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co-PIs V. Aplakov, N. Dietz, B. Thoms and Xiaochun He).

Georgia-State University Chancellor's Initiative Fund, “Research in Interactions of Radiation with Matter”, 7/1/04 - 6/30/05, $87,000 (PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co-PIs Xiaochun He, S. Manson, W. H. Nelson, M. Stockman, and N. Dietz).

Seed grant from Brains & Behavior –Neuroscience program, “Artificial Neural Networks with Silicon Circuits- Simulation and Parallel Computing”, 9/04-8/05, $16500 (PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co-PIs Yi Pan and Melody Moore).

Seed grant from Brains & Behavior –Neuroscience program, “Terahertz response on Cells”, 9/04-8/05, $30,000 (PI: Vince Rehder, Co-PIs Nikolaus Dietz and A. G. U. Perera).

Georgia-State University Chancellor's Initiative Fund, “Research in Interactions of Radiation with Matter”, 7/1/02 - 6/30/05, $162,000 (PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co-PIs Xiaochun He, S. Manson, W. H. Nelson, and N. Dietz).

“High Operating Temperature Split-Off Band Infrared Detectors”, Provisional Patent, (A. G. U. Perera) U. S. Patent Pending, Application Number 00412509

“UV-IR Dual Band detectors”, ( A. G. U. Perera and S. G. Matsik) Provisional Patent application filed, Application number 60/729,163.

“Heterojunction Far Infrared Detector”, (A. G. U. Perera, and S. G. Matsik) U. S. Patent #7,253,432 issued on August 7, 2007.