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Foreign his Doctor of Philosophy research, he worked under the supervision of Professor Renee Elio at the University of Alberta.
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Afzal Upal
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He was chair of the First International Workshop on Cognition and Culture, the 14th Annual Conference of the North American Association for Computational, Social, and Organizational Sciences, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence-06 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Agent-based Social Simulation,
In July 1999, Upal was hired as a tenure-track assistant professor of computer science at Dalhousie University"s new Faculty of Computer Science. In 2001, he moved to Information Extraction & Transport (The Institution of Engineering and Technology ) Incorporated. to work as a senior scientist on various Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency sponsored projects to develop Bayesian network based decision-aid systems In July 2003, he joined the University of Toledo"s Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department as a tenure track assistant professor to teach computer science.
Since 2008, he has been working as a defence scientist at Defence R & Doctorate Canada"s Toronto Research Centre.
He has contributed to research areas of Cognition & Culture and Cognitive science of religion through the development of the Context-based model of minimal counterintuiveness. In a 2005 article in the Journal of Cognition and Culture, he proposed a cognitive science of new religious movements.
Upal has also pioneered a knowledge-rich agent-based social simulation technique for simulating the development of complex cultural beliefs.
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In December 1999, he successfully defended his thesis on "Learning to Improve the Quality of Plans Produced by Partial-order Planners".
