OBJECTIVE
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To apply advanced artificial intelligence and
machine learning techniques in the design and implementation of
systems, especially those which process large amounts of data or
model the behavior of humans or agents
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EDUCATION
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
PA
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Ph.D.
in Computer Science 2005
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Thesis in Artificial
Intelligence/Machine Learning
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M.S.
in Computer Science 2002
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B.S.
in Computer Science 1999
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3.9 cumulative GPA, double-major in philosophy,
minor in math
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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
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Strong research
background in artificial intelligence and machine learning
Developed and
maintained reasonably sized software systems, both individually
and collaboratively
Served in leadership roles and as a team
player
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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
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Ph.D. thesis
titled “Coaching: Learning and Using Environment and Agent
Models for Advice” addresses how an autonomous coach agent
can use observations to learn models in order to provide advice
to other agents on how to act
16 refereed
conference publications
Best Paper Award
at Sixth
International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling
(AIPS-2002)
RoboCup
Engineering Award 2003
National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship
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SKILLS AND PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Joint founder,
designer, and manager of the RoboCup (http://www.robocup.org)
simulated robot soccer coach competition, where AI coach agents
provide advice to a team of agents. In charge of running coach
competitions as part of Organizing Committees (2002,2003,2005)
and providing direction and making design decisions as part of
Technical Committees
Managed a three
person team which created AI agents which understand advice.
Required integration of two separate C++ code bases, with
significant new code design and implementation for a 40,000 line
final product
Core developer in
team of 3 to 6 people that maintained and added features to the
Soccer Server (http://sserver.sf.net),
a simulation system used by hundreds of researchers worldwide
(1999-2002)
Designed, wrote,
and maintained SPADES (http://spades-sim.sf.net),
a 25,000 line C++ middleware system for distributed agent
simulation that provides networking, time management, and agent
management services. Used as substrate for the new RoboCup 3D
simulation server
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OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
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Summer 2000,
Research Intern at Draper Laboratory
Summer 1997, Software Developer Intern at
Microsoft
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