Howdy! My name is Nate Derbinsky.

I am a teacher, a researcher, a software developer, and an entrepreneur. I pursue exciting opportunities to learn and apply technologies that scale to solve important problems in the world.

News. Latest announcements.

  • New Panel. SIGCSE 2025
  • New Position. Associate Dean of the Global Campus, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
  • New Award. Association for Computing Machinery
  • New Venue. Spring Symposium on Increasing Diversity in AI Education and Research

Research. Cognitive systems.

Developing agents with human-level intelligence: real-time systems that persist for long periods of time while autonomously contending with, and improving performance on, a variety of tasks.

Papers, talks, and code »

Teaching. Passion + respect.

Adapting an inclusive learning environment in which to confront challenging ideas.

Philosophy, materials, and evaluations »

Personal. Learning, giving back.

Tinkering with and applying new technologies in real-world contexts.

Projects and links »