National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program Director
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
E-mail: amaddox@nsf.gov
Anthony Bernard Maddox is presently a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. He manages programs for the Experimental and Integrative Activities Division in postdoctoral research, collaborative research in learning technologies, and a new initiative in collaborative learning. As a faculty member in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, his research and professional interests include theories of computational agency, granularity and hysteresis in event hypostatization, and mass customized learning environments.
He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for his artificial intelligence research in computational linguistics. He attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering) for computer vision research at the Robotics Institute, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in public policy and psychology. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Maddox is working as an intrapreneur in the Los Angeles basin to integrate culturally-responsive information supply chains for outsourcing educational decision support to families, community-based organizations, and education-based institutions.