WORK EXPERIENCE
- June ‘05 – Present
Associate Professor, Computer
Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri – Kansas City, MO
- Sep '99 – May ‘05
Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Engineering, University
of Missouri - Kansas
City Kansas City,
MO.
- Nov '96 - Aug '99 Technical
Staff, Intuitive Interface to Information Systems (I3S) Microelectronics
and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
Austin, TX.
- Participated in all
phases of system development
- Ontology and
infrastructure development; improved robustness for distributed parallel
processing and communication by modules
- Natural Language and
Parser development; generic/domain specific grammar and lexicon
development & implemented efficient parsing algorithms.
- Designed and
developed plan recognition based on Object Oriented semantic nets and
user modeling, plan generation and domain reasoning
- Dialogue management
and case-based Interaction Planning system development
- Identified and developed
an integrated design environment and associated tools for creating
dialogue-based application
- Designed and
implemented Natural Language and Rule development tools for Intuitive
Dialogue Systems
- Evaluated dialogue
systems (TRAINS, TRIPS, etc) and had experiments with real planning
system (SIPE-2), ontology editors (Ontolinguia),
knowledge representation systems.
- Involved in
Application Development; City resources and Financial Assistant
(portfolio management & banking application)
- Wrote technical and
application documentation & provided comprehensive technical training
sessions and work presentations
- Sep '91 - Sep '96
Teaching/Research Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark,
NJ.
- Designed and
implemented a Massively Parallel Special Purpose Reasoner
for the Medical Entities Dictionary system in Columbia Presbyterian
Medical Center (CPMC).
- Involved with research
group working on Object-Oriented Modeling of Medical Dictionaries in the
CPMC.
- Supervised Master's
projects
- Responsibility
includes independent teaching Computer Science courses, giving
assignments, examinations, and grading.
- Computer programming
and problem solving (FORTRAN 77)
- Computer programming
language courses (Pascal, C and C++)
EDUCATION
- January 1997 Ph.D. in
Computer and Information Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ.
Thesis: Massively Parallel Reasoning in Transitive Relationship
Hierarchies
Advisor: Dr. James Geller
- May 1990 B.S. in Computer
Science
University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington.