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- models human behavior using cognitive architectures
- high-level behavior representation languages
- integrated cognitive-neuroscience architectures for sensemaking
- Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
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- computational and experimental investigation of fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and reacting flow problems
- SB, SM from MIT, Ph.D. from Stanford University in chemical engineering
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- MEMS, microfluidics, thermal and systems engineering
- expertise in developing fuel-cell based energy systems
- inventor on over 25 U.S. and international patents
- Ph.D & B.S.., Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University & IIT Bombay
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John Pauksta
Vice President, Finance and Human Resources & Chief Financial Officer view full profile |
- directs PARC's finance, human resource, and other related activities
- previous companies include Xerox; Apple; subsidiaries of WR Grace, GD Searle Pharmaceuticals, Beatrice Foods
- B.S., Management and Finance, DePaul University & MBA, Roosevelt University
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- statistical/learning methods
- querying large document sets based on content and visual structure
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering & M.S., Computer Science, Purdue University
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- human information interaction
- Fellow of the AAAS, APS, NAE, and ACM CHI Academy
- authored "Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information"
- Ph.D., cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University
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- computer graphics and printing systems, to data structures and compiler; currently working on content-centric networking
- invented optimal discrete rendering of images; object-optimized printing system and method
- principal designer and implementor of Cedar Imager, later adapted for the Sun operating system; translator between Cedar-to-Lisp programming languages; strategies for breaking paragraphs into lines
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- social "interaction analyst"
- wide-ranging expertise in sociology, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, ethnography, video analysis
- improving human-robot interactional capabilities
- delivering ethnography how-to training
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- 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
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- 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
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- manages PARC socio-cognitive computing research and health and wellness work
- serial entrepreneur specializing in moving research to commercialization
- directed Georgia Tech's Cognitive Computing Lab
- Ph.D., Yale University; M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
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- microfluidic actuators to medical devices
- has built prototype for a blood coagulation analysis device to monitor coagulopathy
- has led hardware-software integration for a next-generation OCT otoscope for detecting pediatric middle-ear infection
- has designed and developed a novel low-cost, high-sensitivity capacitive biosensor for detecting biomolecules in blood
- Ph.D., M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University; B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
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- expertise in computer-aided process planning and intelligent, model-based manufacturing
- development for the Instant Foundry Adaptive through Bits (iFAB) program
- Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley; B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
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- expertise is in colloidal processing and direct writing of colloidal fluids.
- B.S. and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
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- semiconductor nanowire devices and applications
- solution-processing and inkjet-printing nanowire transistors
- disordered nanowire mat solar cells
- PhD, MS electrical engineering, U.C. San Diego
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- high-accuracy ink jet printing
- a-, poly-, and crystalline silicon and associated applications
- large-area arrays for optical and x-ray imaging, displays, and organic semiconductor materials and devices
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- identifying new applications for biomedical enthalpy array technology
- expertise in thermodynamics and kinetics of RNA-protein interactions using a variety of biochemical and biophysical techniques
- B.S. in Biology from the UCLA; Ph.D. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology U.C. Santa Cruz; postdoctoral work at Stanford University & The Scripps Research Institute
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- leads the technology, direction, and architecture design for cloud and big data futures
- co-founded the Open Cloud Consortium and is an active researcher on large data sets and data access, security, and integrity issues
- MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India.
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- architects and manages projects in the area of contextual intelligence, such as PARC's Contextual Intelligence Platform (CIP) and Contextual Agents projects
- smart machines, advanced user interfaces for contextually aware applications, virtual and augmented reality, and scalable cloud-based distributed systems for the real-time web
- Ph.D., London's City University
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- applies Bayesian inference techniques to classification, state estimation, and prediction problems
- intelligent system design and health management
- former scientist at NASA Ames Research Center's Prognostics Center of Excellence
- formulated metrics for evaluating performance of prognostic algorithms
- Ph.D., M.S., EECS, Georgia Institute of Technology; B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology
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- focuses on novel electrochemical chemistry and energy technologies
- building devices for efficient energy storage, energy generation, and water management
- BSc from Stewart Science College, Utkal University, India and M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from Saga University, Japan
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- leads PARC’s Innovation Services and ethnography business in Japan
- more than 20 years of business experience in design consulting, industrial and interface design, and consumer research including, usability testing and ethnographic studies
- Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Design and Ph.D. in Engineering from Chiba University, Chiba.
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- computational vision, specializing in perceptual organization in the domain of document images.
- ScanScribe document image editor
- B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology. Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- analog and digital CMOS circuit design, biosensing, and software engineering
- interface between electrical engineering, biochemistry, electrochemistry
- B.S., Mathematics, Brown University; Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
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- machine learning, speech recognition, more
- developing context-aware smartphone middleware
- developing algorithms to detect insider threats in organizations
- was a senior research scientist at Pearson Education
- developed activity recognition components of an intelligent task management system (led to startup later acquired by EMC)
- Ph.D., Oregon State University; M.E., B.S., Nanjing University
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- developing reusable paper printing applications; inkjet systems aimed at printed circuit board printing; novel energy conversion technologies aimed at solar energy and energy scavenging
- applies conventional printing technologies and techniques in novel ways to improve performance or manufacturing
- M.S., Stanford University, in Mechanical Engineering and B.S., MIT
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- business, innovation, and research in networking, computing, and mobile platforms
- product management for Content-Centric Networking
- Consulting Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
- VP of Research at T-Mobile's parent Deutsche Telekom, Inc.; Director of Research and a Senior Research Scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
- Ph.D., M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; B.S., Electrical Engineering, IIT New Delhi
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- better ways to manage, use, and produce energy
- developed novel clean energy solutions including wind power, Stirling-thermoacoustic engine, adsorption chiller
- specializes in experimental design, data analysis, systems analysis, modeling
- PhD, MS, physics, Stanford University; MPhil, Cambridge University; BS, Brown University
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- gridline printing and ink development for solar cells; concentrated photovoltaic technologies
- piezoelectric thick film deposition, firing, and release process
- developed novel ceramic paste with greatly improved drying characteristics
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- distributed server-less applications to contention-free MACs
- PI for various PARC projects for DARPA
- Delay-Tolerant Networking using content primitives; WNaN Adaptive Network Development with BBN for ad-hoc networking
- built various content-based applications including map sharing, content-based mobile chat, more
- Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz; M.Sc., USC; B.S., University of Costa Rica
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- working on web-based social indexes that re-invent how people discover, understand, and share information on the Web
- hardware and software for collaboration in electronic meetings, object-oriented programming systems, expert systems
- digital property rights for publishing led to creation of ContentGuard (acquired by Microsoft, Time Warner, and Thompson in 2005)
- sensemaking technology for intelligence analysts
- AAAI and AAAS Fellow
- Ph.D., Stanford University
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- over 25 years of experience in water treatment, quality, testing, operations, infrastructure, and measurement
- drinking water, wastewater, industrial water markets
- extensive background from licensing and sales to operations manufacturing and quality systems
- commercialized water technologies in several diverse industries
- commercialization roles at numerous startups -- including VP of Sales and Marketing at OndaVia, Hach Company, and PAX; COO at Microvi Biotech; CEO of H2O Inc. and Pionetics Corporation
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- large-area electronic materials and devices
- printing technologies to replace photolithographic techniques
- solution-based organic materials to create large-area transistor and sensor arrays
- previous work on digital x-ray imaging commercialized through PARC spin-off dPix
- holds 53 patents and published more than 350 papers
- American Physical Society David Adler Award; American Institute of Physics prize for Industrial Applications of Physics
- Ph.D., B.S., Physics, Cambridge University
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- anthropologist focused on understanding user/ consumer needs and behaviors
- specializes in innovation and emerging markets, China
- worked at IDEO's Shangai office
- Ph.D., B.A., Social Anthropology, London University
- fluent Japanese, Mandarin, English
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- builds and evaluates novel technology for understanding complex multimedia data
- emphasis to enable users to access information needed when they need it most
- Ph.D. in Computer Science and MEng in Software Engineering from the University of Sheffield
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