[1] From 2020-2023 he was the President of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), where he remains on the Board of Directors.

from the University of Oxford[2] in 1983 with the thesis Representation and rationality: foundations of cognitive science.

Prior to arriving at UCSD, he spent five years as a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1984 to 1989.

Since 1989, he has been on faculty at the Department of Cognitive Science at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

A selection: Recently Professor Kirsh has taught such courses as: