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PEOPLE:

 

Lara Crawford
  • interface between planning and control, as well as the control and coordination of large-scale distributed, networked, embedded systems
  • simulation, robotics, learning control, biologically inspired control
  • Ph.D. in Biophysics & M.S. in Electrical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley; A.B. in Physics, Harvard

 

Christian Fritz
  • applies AI planning & KR to real-world problems
  • semantic workflows, cognitive robotics, ubicomp
  • specializes highly dynamic, open-world environments
  • Ph.D., University of Toronto

 

 

David Garcia
  • software developer
  • led the development of the Diagnostic Competition Framework at NASA
  • software used successfully in PHM Society's International Diagnostic Competition
  • B.S., Mathematics, Santa Clara University; working on M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University

 

 

 

David Gunning
  • directs artificial intelligence and predictive analytics focused on the enterprise
  • anomaly and fraud detection, contextual intelligence, recommendation systems, and tools for smart organizations 
  • developing rich, predictive user models
  • M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University; M.S. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Dayton; B.S. in Psychology from Otterbein College

 

John Hanley
  • modeling complex business processes for decision support system
  • relevance-based document retrieval from personal library
  • usability of large software systems
  • M.S., Software Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Eric Huang
  • heuristic search, packing, constraint satisfaction, planning, scheduling
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, UCLA
  • former Micro Fellow and EGSA Angels Fellow

 

 

 

Peter Jarvis

 

 

  • produces software for various embedded reasoning systems projects
  • was computer scientist at NASA Ames Reserach Center & SRI International
  • developed intelligent software leveraging automated planning and scheduling for various applications
  • Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence

 

 

 

Matthew Klenk
  • qualitative reasoning, machine learning, planning, intelligent agents, spatial reasoning
  • worked in U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
  • Ph.D., Northwestern University EECS

 

Tolga Kurtoglu
  • design and development of complex systems
  • engineering design automation and optimization
  • prognostic and health management, model-based systems, automated reasoning, knowledge and information management, risk and reliability-based design
  • previously at NASA Ames Research Center and Dell Corporation
  • PhD, UT Austin, MS, Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering

 

Julia Liu
  • signal processing, statistical modeling and inference, distributed sensor networks
  • applications such as intelligent transportation systems
  • Ph.D., M.S. Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Marzieh Nabi-Abdolyousefi
  • control, optimization, networked dynamics systems, robotics, and flight dynamics, in energy, transportation, multi-agent system, and healthcare
  • Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and M.Sc. in Mathematics from University of Washington

 

Bob Price
  • inference, tracking, learning, and planning applications for government and industry clients
  • model-based control on a system for improving the diagnostic information generated from automatically constructed plans; machine learning of rules to diagnose problems in printing engines from fault code sequences; and optimization of power loads on aircraft to minimize power and cost and maximize utility
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia

 

Ajay Raghavan
  • fleet health management, diagnostics and prognostics, electromechanical systems, sensors
  • modeling, dynamics, pattern recognition and signal processing, piezoelectric transducers, wave propagation, guided-wave structural health monitoring
  • Ph.D., M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; B.S., Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay