JONATHAN R. JACKSON

Current Address: Permanent Address:
2013 Wightman St. 1655 Rocky Hollow Rd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Germantown, TN 38138
(412) 422-2839 (901) 753-8108
e-mail:  jackson4@andrew.cmu.edu
homepage:  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jrj/

OBJECTIVE

An electrical engineering position that tackles challenging problems, preferably in, though not limited to, the following areas:  applied research & development, embedded systems, system verification, signal processing, or systems integration.

EDUCATION

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Candidate for Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, expected graduation August, 2000. GPA: 4.0/4.0.  Thesis:  Using Automatic Task Decomposition to Design Port-Based Adaptable Agent Software

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, Tennessee
Bachelor of Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, May 1998. GPA: 4.0/4.0.  Graduated 1st in class.

EXPERIENCE

August 1998-present

Carnegie Mellon University.
As a Master's student, working on Port-based Adaptable Agents project.  Research focus is on using task decomposition to design adaptable software for a team of heterogeneous mobile robots.  Duties throughout graduate school have included independent and group research and oral presentations of research work.

Summer 1998

Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
Programmer.  Wrote LISP programs to automate grading of class assignments for Dr. Doug Fisher's AI class.

September 1994 to May 1998

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Assistant computer lab administrator and lab monitor.  Installed new software. Supervised activities within lab.  Administrated areas of Windows NT network.

Summer 1997

Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program
Worked on program to detect plagiarism on the Internet

ACTIVITIES and HONORS

Vanderbilt University Electrical Engineering Program Award(top graduating EE) 1998
Barry M. Goldwater scholarship 1997-1998
Vanderbilt University's Dillard Jacobs and TOP TENN scholarships 1994-1998
Eta Kappa Nu, electrical engineering honor society 1997-present
Carnegie Mellon's Advanced Mechatronics Lab 1998-present
I.E.E.E. 1994-present
         Vanderbilt Chapter Secretary 1996
Tau Beta Pi (Tennessee Beta Chapter) 1996-present
         Tennessee Beta Chapter Treasurer 1997
Vanderbilt Association for Computing Machinery 1995-1998

COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating Systems:  Windows NT and 98, Linux.
Languages:  proficient in Java, C, Common Lisp, MATLAB.
Experience with C++, Perl, Motorola 6811 and 68k assembly, Visual Basic, Pascal, Fortran
Software packages:  MATLAB, PSPICE, ViewLogic, Mathematica

SELECTED COURSES

Digital Signal Processing  Linear Systems Robotic Manipulators
Agent-Based Systems Artificial Intelligence Pattern Recognition Theory
Applied Stochastic Processes Mechatronic Design Math Fundamentals for Robotics
Signal Processing and Communications Algorithms Microcontrollers I&II
Numerical Mathematics Data Structures Programming Languages
Operating Systems