Penn State Behrend
    School of Engineering
    5101 Jordan Road
    Erie, PA  16563-1701

    Office: REDC 159
    Phone: (814) 898-6562
    Fax: (814) 898-6125
    Email: xfan@psu.edu

Xiaocong Fan
Biography

Dr. Xiaocong (Simon) Fan is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He received his Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from Nanjing University, China.

Before joining the faculty at Penn State Behrend, Dr. Fan conducted his Post-Doctoral research at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University (2002-2007). During this period, he has been an active researcher in the field of Multi-Agent Systems in three thrusts: (1) fundamental issues in team collaboration and theoretical studies in proactive information sharing; (2) construction of Intelligent Agent Architectures for simulating teamwork and for supporting Decision-Making teams; (3) experimental investigations on issues such as context-switching and trust in human-agent collaboration. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Fan was a post-doctoral scholar at Department of Computer Science, Abo Akademi University, and the Turku Centre for Computer Science, Finland. During this period, he mainly focused on software agents, agent-oriented methodologies, and fundamental issues in Program Refinement Calculus.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to teamwork issues by systematically bringing together concepts and techniques from Artificial Intelligence, cognitive science, and Software Engineering, Dr. Fan recently focuses his research on Human-Centered Computing, Multi-agent systems, Cognitive modeling, Knowledge Management, and Service-oriented architectures.

Dr. Fan is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).