June 2017
Ph.D. May 1986. Yale University. Computer Science.
M.Sc. May 1984. Yale University. Computer Science.
B.A. May 1982. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State
University.
Mathematics — Summa cum Laude — in Honors.
Best Paper Award, CVPR-13, Portland, Oregon, 2013.
Elected as a Fellow of the ACM, 2009.
Elected to the IJCAI Board of Trustees, 1995.
Appointed to Computing Research Association Board, 1995.
Elected as a Fellow of AAAI, 1994.
Elected to the Executive Council of AAAI, 1993.
NSF Presidential Young Investigators Award, 1989.
Best Paper Award, AAAI-87, Seattle, Washington, 1987.
IBM Faculty Development Award, 1986–1988.
IBM Graduate Fellowship Award, 1985–1986.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1982.
VPI-SU Distinguished Achievement Award in Mathematics, 1981.
[2006–2017] — Research Scientist, Google Inc., Mountain View, California.
[2010–2017] — Consulting Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
[2007–2017] — Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
[2005–2007] — Visiting Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
[1993–2007] — Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive and Linguistic Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
[2003–2005] — Deputy Provost, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
[2001–2002] — Acting Vice President for Computing and Information Services, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
[1997–2002] — Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
[1994–1995] — Visiting Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
[1990–1993] — Associate Professor of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
[1990–1991] — Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
[1986–1990] — Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
[1984–1986] — Research Assistant, Yale University Department of Computer Science, New Haven, Connecticut.
[1982–1984] — Teaching Assistant, Yale University Department of Computer Science, New Haven, Connecticut.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, March 24, 2017, Learning Mesoscale Models of Neural Computation.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 23, 2017, Learning Mesoscale Models of Neural Computation.
Columbia University, New York, NY, March 22, 2017, Learning Mesoscale Models of Neural Computation.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 21, 2017, Learning Mesoscale Models of Neural Computation.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Campus, Ashburn, VA, March 20, 2017, Learning Mesoscale Models of Neural Computation.
Keystone Symposium on Molecular and Cell Biology, Santa Fe, NM, March 1, 2017, Automatically Inferring Mesoscale Models of Neural Computation.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, February 8, 2017, Learning Mesoscale Models of Neural Computation.
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 7, 2017, Learning Mesoscale Models of Neural Computation.
Annual Symposium of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Stanford, CA, October 13, 2016, Automatically Inferring Mesoscale Models of Neural Computation
Google DeepMind, London, UK, March 17, 2016, Modeling and Motif Finding in Aligned Functional and Structural Data.
Cambridge, University, Computational and Biological Learning, Cambridge, UK, March 16, 2016, Modeling and Motif Finding in Aligned Functional and Structural Data.
University College London, Wolfson Institute, London, UK, March 14, 2016, Modeling and Motif Finding in Aligned Functional and Structural Data.
Stanford University, Stanford Computer Science Faculty Forum, Stanford, CA, February 17, 2015, Scalable Neuroscience and the Brain Activity Mapping Project.
University of California Berkeley, Neural Computation Lecture Series, Berkeley, CA, October 16, 2014, Structural and Functional Connectomics.
University of California Berkeley, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Berkeley, CA, July 26, 2013, Scalable Technologies for Neural Recording.
University of California Berkeley, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Berkeley, CA, April 19, 2013, Scalable Neuroscience and the Brain Activity Mapping Project.
Fujitsu Technology Symposium, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, June 5, 2013, Scalable Technologies for Accelerating Brain Science.
Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation, Stanford University, February 27, 2012, Three Controversial Hypotheses Regarding the Primate Cortex.
SPIE, San Francisco, CA, January 24, 2011, Future Directions in Parallel Processing for Mobile Computer Vision Applications.
CVPR, Colorado Springs, CO, June 23, 2011, Scaling Biologically Inspired Computer Vision Algorithmsfor Video Content Analysis.
AAAI, San Francisco, CA, August 8, 2011, Escaping the Tyranny of Retinotopic Maps: What the Primate’s Body Tells the Primate’s Brain.
Judea Pearl’s Festschrift, University of California Los Angeles, March 12, 2010, Graphical Models of the Primate Visual Cortex.
GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, September 21, 2010, Scaling Biologically Inspired Computer Vision Algorithms for Video Content Analysis.
University of California Berkeley, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Berkeley, CA, January 20, 2010, Accelerating Computer Vision and Machine Learning Algorithms with Graphics Processors.
Google Inc. Mountain View, CA, June 8, 2009, Sparse Spatiotemporal Codes for Activity Recognition.
Google Inc. Mountain View, CA, September 2, 2009. Accelerating Geo and Video Applications with Graphics Processors.
AAAI Presidential Panel on Long-Term AI Futures, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA, February 21, 2009, Perspectives on the Emergence of Intelligence from the Facilitated Interaction of Man and Machine in Closely Coupled Web Applications.
University of California Berkeley, Center for Intelligent Systems Seminar, Berkeley, CA, January 29, 2009, Escaping the Lure of the Retinotopic Map and Lifting Meaning from the Shadows Cast on the Walls of Plato’s Cave.
Keynote address at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, Hawaii, January 6, 2009, Modeling and Computational Perspectives on Biological and Machine Vision.
Keynote address at the Principal Investigators Meeting of the NSF/NIH Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, June 2, 2008, Disruptive Perspectives on Biological and Machine Vision.
Snowbird Machine Learning Workshop, Snowbird, Utah, April 3, 2008, Learning to Parse Video into Stable Spatiotemporal Volumes.
Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, CA, April 10, 2007, On the Prospects for Building a Working Model of Visual Cortex.
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, December 15, 2006, Why Google might want to be in the neocortex business?.
University of California at Berkeley, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Berkeley, CA, November 28, 2006, Learning Invariant Features Using Inertial Priors.
Office of Naval Research Workshop on Biologically Inspired Scene Understanding, Washington, DC, July 26, 2006, Modeling the Visual Cortex as a Spatially-extended Hierarchy of Mixtures of Markov Sources.
Rome Labs, Rome, NY, July 10, 2006, Modeling the Visual Cortex as a Spatially-extended Hierarchy of Mixtures of Markov Sources.
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 8, 2006 Scalable Learning and Inference in Hierarchical Models of the Neocortex.
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Computer Science, April 27, 2006, Scalable Learning and Inference in Hierarchical Models of the Neocortex.
Numenta Inc., January 24, 2006, Hierarchical Bayesian Models of the Primate Visual Cortex.
Google Inc., January 17, 2006, Hierarchical Bayesian Models of the Primate Visual Cortex.
Keynote address at the Ninth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January, 2006, Hierarchical Bayesian Models of the Primate Visual Cortex.
CMU, Center for Automatic Learning and Discovery (CALD), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November, 2005, Scalable Inference in Hierarchical Models of the Neocortex.
Massachusetts School of Law Educational Forum — a one-hour educational television program entitled Robotics which aired March, 2004. This episode was the winner of a “Telly Award” honoring outstanding cable programs.
Seventh International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January, 2002, Searching in the Space of Very Large Structured Models.
Dagstuhl Seminar on the Exploration of Large State Spaces, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, November, 2001. Minimizing Approximate Models versus Approximating Minimal Models.
Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL) Workshop, Seattle, Washington, August 2001, Stochastic Models of Web Agents and their Environment.
IRCS Workshop on Logic and Cognitive Science: Linking Finite Model Theory, Descriptive Complexity, and the Study of Cognition, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1999, Efficiently Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Dynamic Domains.
Twelfth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, May, 1998, Planning and Decision Making involving Discrete-Time Stochastic Dynamical Systems.
Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, May 1998, Coping with the Blooming Buzzing World that Surrounds Us.
Stanford University, Stanford, California, May 1998, Exploiting Structure in Solving Planning Problems.
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December, 1997, Adaptive Problem Framing and Long-life, Life-long Learning.
AT&T Laboratories, Florham Park, New Jersey, November, 1997,Algebraic Structure of Sequential Decision Machines.
European Conference on Planning, Toulouse, France, September, 1997, Identifying and exploiting useful structure in solving planning problems with very large state and action spaces.
DARPA Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative Workshop, Lynnfield, Massachusetts, June, 1997, Solving Very Large Sequential Deployment Problems.
NSF/CNPQ Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Agents, Porto-Alegre, Brazil, March, 1997, Model Minimization and Regression in Planning.
Dagstuhl Workshop on Control of Search in Planning, Dagstuhl, Germany, November, 1996, Characterizing the Structural Properties of Planning Problems.
Saarbruecken University (DFKI), Saarbrueken, Germany, August, 1996, Exploiting Structure in Learning Dynamical Systems.
European Conference on AI: Workshop on Cross-fertilization in Planning, Budapest, Hungary, August 1996, Theory and Practice in Automated Planning.
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), Portland, Oregon, August, 1996, History of the AAAI Robotics Competitions.
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), Portland, Oregon, August, 1996, Challenges in Automated Planning.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, March, 1996, Algorithms for Learning Dynamical Systems.
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, November, 1995, Graphical Models for Learning Dynamical Systems.
First International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research, Timberline, Oregon, June, 1995, Planning and Scheduling Problems as Markov Decision Processes.
Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos, New Mexico, March, 1995,Transportation Scheduling in Stochastic Domains.
Santa Fe Institute, March, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995, Modeling, Learning and Decision Making Under Uncertainty.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, March, 1995, Discrete Dynamical Models for Planning and Learning.
Stanford University, Stanford, California, January, 1995, Decision Theoretic Planning and Markov Decision Processes.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, November, 1994, Structured Markov Decision Processes.
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, October, 1994, Decomposition and Abstraction in Markov Processes.
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, September, 1994, Lectures on Uncertainty in Sequential Decision Making.
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, Washington, August, 1994, Planning Under Uncertainty.
Intractability and Time-Dependent Planning, in “Reasoning About Actions and Plans” edited by Amy Lansky and Mike Georgeff (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers), 1987.
Robot Problem Solving, in “Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Engineering” edited by Hojjat Adeli (McGraw-Hill), 1989.
Reinforcement Learning for Planning and Control (with Ken Basye and John Shewchuk), “Machine Learning Methods for Planning and Scheduling” edited by Steve Minton (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers), 1992.
Uncertainty in Graph-Based Map Learning (with Ken Basye and Leslie Kaelbling), “Robot Learning” edited by Jon Connell and Sridhar Mahadevan (Kluwer Academic Publishers), 1993.
AI Scheduling Methods, a review of “Intelligent Scheduling” by Monte Zweben and Mark Fox, in IEEE Expert 7 (1995).
Planning and Navigation in Stochastic Environments (with Jean-Luc Marion), “Visual Navigation” edited by Yiannis Aloimonos (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers), 1996.
Planning and Scheduling (with Subbarao Kambhampati), “CRC Handbook of Computer Science and Engineering” edited by Allen Tucker and Hal Abelson (CRC Press) 1996.
Office of Naval Research. 07/01/06–12/31/09. “Scalable Inference and Learning in Very Large Graphical Models Patterned after the Primate Visual Cortex” $793,152.
National Science Foundation. 11/15/05–10/31/08. (with Michael Black and Chad Jenkins) “Statistical Models of the Primate Neocortex: Implementation and Application,” $480,000.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 12/01/05–11/30/06. “Bootstrapping Cognitive Systems with Implicit Semantic Knowledge” (with Mark Boddy of Adventium Labs) $84,153.
Brown University Brain Science Research Program. “Implementing a Computational Model of the Cortex,” $4,000.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 6/29/00–9/28/02. (with Thomas Hofmann and Eli Upfal) “Stochastic Models for Web Agents and the Web Environment,” $550,000.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 6/1/99–5/31/00. Supplement to “Time-Critical Planning and Scheduling for Aircraft Maintenance and Deployment,” $40,000.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research. 12/1/96–11/3/97. “Model Acquisition for Markov Decision Problems ,” $116,600.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 6/1/95–5/31/98. (with Leslie Kaelbling), “Time-Critical Planning and Scheduling for Aircraft Maintenance and Deployment,” $924,461.
National Science Foundation. 6/1/94–5/31/95. (with Ruzena Bajcsy and Jean-Claude Latombe), “National Virtual Laboratories,” $50,000.
National Science Foundation. 6/1/94–5/31/97. (with Leslie Kaelbling), “Robot Planning, Learning and Selective Perception in Stochastic Domains,” $150,000.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 6/1/91–5/31/94. “Distributed Planning and Control for Applications in Transportation Scheduling,” $912,500.
International Business Machines. 1/1/90–12/31/90. “Studies in Integrated Planning and Control.” $75,000.
AT&T Foundation. 9/1/89–8/30/90. “Perception for Planning and Control,” $20,000.
National Science Foundation. 8/1/89–12/31/94. “Presidential Investigator Award,” $125,000.
NSF-DARPA Initiative, IRIS/CISE. 9/1/89–8/30/92. (with David Cooper and William Wolovich), “Image Understanding for Service Robots,” $690,000.
AT&T Foundation. 9/1/88–8/30/89. “A Mobile Sensor Platform for Research in Planning and Control,” $25,000.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 9/1/88–8/30/91. “High-Level Planning and Low-Level Control,” $440,000.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 9/1/87–8/31/88. “Temporal Inference Systems,” $30,000.
National Science Foundation. 3/1/87–2/28/89. “Time-Dependent Planning,” $133,758.
International Business Machines. 7/1/86–6/30/88. “Faculty Development Award.” $60,000.
[2003–2005] — Deputy Provost.
[2004–2005] — Chair of the University Librarian Search Committee.
[2004–2005] — Chair of the Provost’s Science Cohort Program Committee.
[2003–2004] — Chair of the Provost’s Committee on Digital Initiatives.
[2000–2002] — Member Faculty Advisory Committee on Computing.
[2000–2001] — Chair of the VP for Computing and Information Services Search Committee.
[1997–2002] — Chair of the Computer Science Department.
[1994–1995] — Member of the Search Committee for the Dean of the College.
[1992–1994] — Member of the Faculty Committee on Educational Legislation.
[1991–1994] — Director Graduate Affairs for Computer Science.
[1988–2006] — Freshman and Sophomore Advising Programs.
[2006-2017]
CS-379C: Computational Models of the Neocortex, Stanford University
[2004-2005]
CS-009-02: Talking With Computers
[2003-2004]
CS-009-02: Talking With Computers
[2001-2002]
CS-148: Building Intelligent Robots
[2000-2001]
CS-243: Topics in Machine Learning
CS-148: Building Intelligent Robots
[1998-1999]
CS-141: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
[1997-1998]
CS-141: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CS-242: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
[1996-1997]
CS-141: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CS-242: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
[1995-1996]
CS-141: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CS-242: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CS-148: Building Intelligent Robots
[2010–2015] — Member of the Science Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University.
[2002–2005] — Member of the Science Final Selection Committee for the 2005 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship Program.
[2003–2005] — Member of the Academic Alliance for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT).
[1999–2003] — Member of the Advisory Committee for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
[1997–2001] — Member of the IJCAI Board of Trustees.
[1997–1999] — Program Chair for the 1999 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Stockholm, Sweden.
[1996–1999] — Associate Editor for Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
[1996–1996] — Reviewer for the AFOSR Programs in Mathematical and Computer Sciences Board on Mathematical Sciences of the National Research Council.
[1994–1997] — Member of the CRA Board of Directors.
[1994–1997] — Member of the AAAI Executive Council.
[1994–2005] — Senior Member of IEEE.
[1994–2003] — Program committee for the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-94, UAI-95, UAI-01, UAI-02, UAI-03).
[1992–1996] — Organized and ran the first AAAI Robotics Competition in 1992 and helped to organize several of the subsequent competitions.
[1991–1994] — Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
[1990–1992] — Program chair for the 1991 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
[1990–1996] — Program committee for AAAI Symposia.
[1989–2001] — Program committee for the International Joint Conference Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-89, IJCAI-95, IJCAI-97, IJCAI-01).
[1989–1993] — Artificial Intelligence Area Editor for ACM Press.
[1989–2005] — Member of the IEEE Computer Society.
[1989–2005] — Member of the American Association for Computing Machinery.
[1988–1995] — Referee for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
[1987–1994] — Program committee for the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87, AAAI-88, AAAI-90, AAAI-91, AAAI-93, AAAI-94).
[1984–2005] — Member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Mark Wachsler | 1987 | M.Sc. |
Curt Levey | 1987 | M.Sc. |
Charles Nofsinger | 1987 | M.Sc. |
Woong On Chang | 1988 | M.Sc. |
Akira Hayashi | 1988 | M.Sc. |
John Arnold | 1988 | M.Sc. |
Steve Bowen | 1988 | M.Sc. |
Linda Nunez-Mensinger | 1989 | M.Sc. |
Margaret Randazza | 1990 | M.Sc. |
Robert Chekaluk | 1990 | M.Sc. |
Seungseok Hyun | 1990 | M.Sc. |
Raymond Kozlowski | 1990 | M.Sc. |
Jin Joo Lee | 1991 | M.Sc. |
Tu-Hsin Tsai | 1991 | M.Sc. |
Timothy Good | 1992 | M.Sc. |
Andreas Kaplan | 1993 | M.Sc. |
Mark Boddy | 1991 | Ph.D. |
Keiji Kanazawa | 1992 | Ph.D. |
Kenneth Basye | 1993 | Ph.D. |
Neal Jacobson | 1994 | M.Sc. |
Jak Kirman | 1994 | Ph.D. |
Kate Sanders | 1994 | Ph.D. |
Theodore Camus | 1994 | Ph.D. |
Lloyd Greenwald | 1996 | Ph.D. |
Shieu-Hong Lin | 1997 | Ph.D. |
Kee-Eung Kim | 2001 | Ph.D. |
Joel Young | 2004 | Ph.D. |
Christopher Lee Chin | 2005 | M.Sc. |
Sonia Leach | 2006 | Ph.D. |
Theresa Vu | 2006 | M.Sc. |
Ethan Schreiber | 2006 | M.Sc. |
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