Professor
Department of Computer Science
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0410

RRenner@csuchico.edu
Tel. 530 898-5419
Fax. 530 898-5995

My research and teaching efforts are primarily in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and Robotics.  I am also involved in teaching, development, and research in the related areas of knowledge discovery, data mining, and databases.  I am a founder and member of the Intelligent Systems Lab (ISL) and the Institute for Research on Intelligent Systems (IRIS) project. Our efforts lie in exploration, design, and implementation of autonomous intelligent agents. The institute provides a venue for curriculum development, research, service learning, and outreach.

My experiences in AI span seventeen years and include work in artificial neural networks, ensembles of constructive networks, selection and combination methods, and development of the Neural Network Ensemble Simulator (NNES) and Scientific Database (NNES SciDB). Additionally, I have over twenty years of teaching experience, including: AI, robotics, cognitive science, knowledge engineering, data acquisition, database technologies, software engineering, programming, theory of computation. My related interests encompass machine learning, embodied intelligence, and data mining. Application areas of greatest interest (for collaborative efforts) include autonomous robots for search and rescue, bio-surveillance, threat detection, sustainability, public and foreign policy, environmental/ecological, humanitarian efforts/health&safety.