Jeffrey L. Krichmar is an assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include neurorobotics, embodied cognition, biologically plausible models of learning and memory, and the effect of neural architecture on neural function. Dr. Krichmar received his Ph.D. in Computational Sciences and Informatics from George Mason University. As a software engineer, he worked on projects ranging from the PATRIOT Missile System at the Raytheon Corporation to Air Traffic Control for the Federal Systems Division of IBM. He was an assistant professor at The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, and a Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute.

In the Cognitive Anteater Robotics Laboratory (CARL) at the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Krichmar’s research focuses on brain function by using robotic devices controlled by simulated nervous systems. His research has studied perception, operant conditioning, episodic and spatial memory, and motor control through the simulation of brain regions such as the visual cortex, the hippocampus, the cerebellum, and the neuromodulatory systems.