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I am a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar in the Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at the University
of California, Berkeley, since August 2003, working under the auspices of Prof.
Shankar Sastry.
My research is in the area of intelligent autonomous systems, including
UAVs, hybrid systems, underwater vehicles, and cool gadgets in general.
Building blocks for this are in domain-specific modeling, metamodeling,
and generative programming. Since coming to Berkeley, I've worked on Pursuit/Evasion
games for UAVs, safe
landing calculations, strategies for underwater vehicles, and modeling
techniques for hybrid systems. My current major research topic
is the hyper project,
and the ESCHER OCP Project.
In my administrative time here at Berkeley, I am the Executive Director
of the Center for Hybrid
and Embedded Software Systems (CHESS). I spend my time organizing
the weekly Chess
Seminar, occasionally managing yearly events (such as the BEARS
Open House), and supervising summer research by totally awesome undergraduate
students. I also taught a class on Model-Integrated Computing in Spring
2004, and co-taught a course on Hybrid
Systems in Spring 2005..
I come from Vanderbilt University where
I received my Ph.D. in 2003. I did my M.S. at Vanderbilt also,
but my undergraduate degree was from Tennessee
Technological University in Cookeville, TN.
My previous work at Vanderbilt was with the Institute for Software
Integrated Systems (ISIS),
specifically with the GME
modeling tool (European spelling: modelling).
- Just in case you had to look up "auspices" in
the dictionary, you may find it funny that our research UAVs can
be called "birds" and that we frequently observe them
in order to predict future areas of research. Aren't archaic words
great?
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