Education
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University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., Computer Sciences, August 2010.
Thesis: Automated Domain Analysis and Transfer Learning for General Game Playing -
University of California, Los Angeles
B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, May 2001.
Experience
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21st Century Technologies, August 2008 - present.
Senior Research Scientist: Perform applied research in social network analysis, graph analytics, cyber anomaly detection, unmanned systems coordination. Write technical proposals: SBIRs, STTRs, BAAs.
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Pulse Meridian, Jun 2007 - August 2008.
Partner, Analyst: Co-founded company to apply machine learning and optimization techniques to the everyday problems faced by hospitals, retailers, and other data-intensive businesses.
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University of Texas at Austin, Sep 2001 - present.
Assistant Instructor: Designed course curriculum, assigments and exams for independently-instructed course on C# and the .NET framework. Led discussion sections in courses on Software Engineering, Automata Theory, and Java Programming.
Research Assistant: Conducted original research in machine learning, automated reasoning, multiagent systems and robotics. Implemented and evaluated autonomous learning agents embodied in complex environments.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, May 2003 - Aug 2003.
Graduate Research Scientist: Developed an automated goal-generation system using clustering of geological survey data. Collaborated with NASA scientists on scheduler for MISUS, an autonomous Mars rover.
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University of California, Los Angeles, Sep 2000 - Aug 2001.
Undergraduate Research Assistant: Implemented and evalutated collaborative filtering algorithms including Bayesian networks and instance-based methods. Compared performance in recommender systems.
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Dr-Site.com, Feb 2000 - Jan 2001.
Wed Developer, Administrator: Led the development of a new medical technology site using PHP and MySQL. Provided general technical consulting and systems support for linux-based web and database servers.
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Computer Consulting Group, Jul 1998 - Sep 1999.
Developer: Designed and maintained client web sites built with ASP, IIS and Microsoft SQL server. Developed custom accounting applications in Microsoft Visual FoxPro.
