Alexander G. Ororbia II is an assistant professor in the RIT Computer Science Department, an affiliate professor in the RIT Department of Psychology, an affiliate faculty member of RIT's Center for Applied Neuroscience, and an affiliate faculty in RIT's Cognitive Science program. He is also the liaison for the CS department's Nature-Inspired and Evolutionary Computing subarea, which falls under the RIT Computer Science Department's Artificial Intelligence Cluster. Following his studies at Bucknell University in Computer Science & Engineering, he obtained his Ph.D. in Information Science & Technology at Penn State University. There, he worked jointly for both the Intelligent Information Systems (ISS) and Applied Cognitive Science (ACS) laboratories and was appointed as an IGERT Fellow and a NACME Sloan Scholar, also receiving the Jordan-Rednor and Bunton-Waller scholarships.