While not a perfect system, human reasoning still outshines artificial intelligence (AI) in a number of critical areas. One Virginia Tech researcher wants to help change that.

Insufficient logical reasoning capability in AI can be a disadvantage when trying to tackle complex problems like diagnosing and treating rare diseases and detecting and disrupting financial fraud, said Dawei Zhou , assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and a core faculty member at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics .

Developing AI that can function more like human intelligence and learn from complicated real-world situations is the focus of his recently-announced National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

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