Garrison W. Cottrell is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San 
Diego. Professor CottrellŐs main interest is Cognitive Science, in particular, building 
working models of cognitive processes and using them to explain psychological or 
neurological processes. In recent years, he has focused upon face processing, including 
face recognition, face identification, and facial expression recognition. He has also 
worked in the areas of modeling psycholinguistic processes, such as language acquisition, 
reading, and word sense disambiguation. He received his PhD. in 1985 from the 
University of Rochester under James F. Allen (thesis title: A connectionist approach to 
word sense disambiguation). He then did a postdoc with David E. Rumelhart at the 
Institute of Cognitive Science, UCSD, until 1987, when he joined the CSE Department.