He is the Director of the School’s Design and Intelligence Laboratory (http://www.dilab.gatech.edu/) and a Co-Director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Biologically Inspired Design (http://www.cbid.gatech.edu/). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems and ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. He was the Local Chair of the Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition held at Georgia Tech in June 2008. He is a Vice-Chair of the Fourth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition and a Co-Chair of the Sixth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams. Ashok’s research has been supported by NSF, DARPA, ONR, DHS, and IES, and he has been a technical consultant to NEC and NCR.