Biography: David W. Aha

Research Interests

• Application Topics
  • AI and simulations (e.g., complex video games, training simulators)
  • Autonomous systems (e.g., unmanned vehicles)
  • Knowledge extraction (e.g., from microtext)
  • Intelligent presentation assistants
  • Trust and AI
  • Knowledge management (e.g., intelligent lessons learned systems)
• Research Topics
  • Intelligent agents
  • Goal reasoning models (e.g., goal-driven autonomy)
  • Case-based reasoning (CBR)
  • Mixed-initiative and multi-modal systems
  • Machine learning (e.g., instance-based learning, statistical relational learning)

Education

• 1992-93 NSERC International Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Ottawa, Canada
• 1991-92 APL/Johns Hopkins University Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Laurel, MD
• 1990-91 SERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
• 1990 Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of California, Irvine
• 1985 M.S. in Computer Science, Syracuse University
• 1983 B.S. in Computer Science, Syracuse University, Magna Cum Laude with Honors, University Scholar (the highest undergraduate honor bestowed by SU)
• 1979 Walt Whitman High School; South Huntington, New York

Employment (Non-Educational)

• (1993-) Naval Research Laboratory
• (1982) PAR Technology Corporation, Summer
• (1981) Fairchild Republic Company, Summer

Current and Previous Activities

Senior Visiting or Resident Callaborators

Meetings/Events Chaired, Co-Chaired, or Co-Organized

1. AAAI-94 Workshop: Case-Based Reasoning
2. ICML-95 Workshop: Applying ML in Practice (w/ Pat Riddle)
3. AAAI-95 Fall Symposium: Adaptation of Knowledge for Reuse (w/ Ashwin Ram)
4. ECML-97 Workshop: Case-Based Learning: Beyond Classification of Feature Vectors (w/ Dietrich Wettschereck)
5. AAAI-98 Workshop: Case-Based Reasoning Integrations (w/ Jody Daniels)
6. AAAI-98/ICML-98 Workshop: The Methodology of Applying Machine Learning (Chair: R. Engels)
7. AAAI-99 Workshop: Exploring Synergies of Knowledge Management and Case-Based Reasoning (w/ Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Frank Maurer, and Hector Muñoz-Avila)
8. IJCAI-99 Workshop: Automating the Construction of Case-Based Reasoners (w/ Chair Sarab Anand and Agnar Aamodt)
9. AAAI-00 Workshop: Intelligent Lessons Learned Systems (w/ Rosina Weber)
10. ICCBR-01 (Program Co-Chair, w/ Ian Watson; Chair Qiang Yang)
11. Workshop: Semantic Web for the Military User (November 2001)
12. ECCBR-02 Workshop: Mixed-Initiative Case-Based Reasoning
13. ICCBR-03 Workshop: Mixed-Initiative Case-Based Reasoning
14. IJCAI-05 Workshop: Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in Computer Games (w/ Hector Munoz-Avila & Michael van Lent)
15. ICCBR-05 Workshop: Computer Games and Simulation Environments (w/ Dave Wilson)
16. FLAIRS-07 Special Track: Case-Based Reasoning (w/ Luc Lamontagne)
17. AAAI-07: AI Video Competition (w/ Sebastian Thrun)
18. AAAI-08: AI Video Competition (w/ Sebastian Thrun)
19. IJCAI-09 Workshop: Grand Challenges for Reasoning from Experiences (w/ Susan Craw (Chair), Sarabjot Singh Anand, & Barry Smyth)
20. IJCAI-09: AI Video Competition (w/ Michael Bowling)
21. ICCBR-10: Computer Cooking Contest (w/ Amelie Cordier)
22. AAAI-10 Workshop: Goal Directed Autonomy (w/ Matthew Klenk, Hector Munoz-Avila, Ashwin Ram, and Daniel Shapiro)
23. AAAI-11 Workshop: Analyzing Microtext (w/ Doug Oard, Sowmya Ramachandran, and Dave Uthus)
24. ICCBR-11: Doctoral Consortium
25. ICCBR-12: Doctoral Consortium (w/ Thomas Roth-Berghofer)

Ships I've Visited

1. USS Harry W. Hill (for decomissioning)
2. USS Blue Ridge
3. USS Winston S. Churchill

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