About Avelino J Gonzalez

Avelino Gonzalez is Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science Department at the University of Central Florida. He was previously a Professor in the same department, and had a joint appointment with the ECE department. Prior to that he was a Senior Engineer with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, where he was instrumental in the development of the GenAID system, the first commercially available AI product. He received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. His area of research is Artificial Intelligence, the role of context in modeling intelligent behavior, and machine learning from observation of human actions. He has co-authored nearly 300 research articles, as well as three text books and one edited volume (in contextual reasoning). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.