David W. Aha: Biography
Biography: David W. Aha
Employment: Current affiliation information withheld
Research Interests
- Case-based reasoning (CBR)
- Knowledge extraction (e.g., from text documents)
- Machine learning (e.g., statistical relational learning, instance-based learning)
- Knowledge management (e.g., intelligent lessons learned systems)
- AI and simulation (e.g., complex games, training simulators)
- Bioinformatics
- Mixed-initiative and multi-modal systems
- Plan authoring
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 (other than educational affiliations)
- (1993-) Current affiliation information withheld
- (1982) PAR Technology Corporation, Summer
- (1981) Fairchild Republic Company, Summer
Activities
- Councilor of the American
Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2006-2009)
- Guest Editor for special journal issues
- Lazy Learning
(AI Review, 1997, 11(1-5))
- Interactive Case-Based Reasoning
(Applied Intelligence, 2001, 14(1);
with Hector Muñoz-Avila)
- Journal Editorial Board Member
- Machine Learning (1996-2003?) (Action Editor: 1998-2001)
- Applied Intelligence (1995-2001) (Review Board: 2001-)
- Journal of AI Research (1995-98)
- AI Research for Environmental Sciences (AIRIES):
Committee Member (1995-2000)
- Dissertation committee member (7 students previously)
- Program committee member, several conferences/meetings annually
- Maintainer, ML/CBR Home Pages (1994-)
- Maintainer, UCI Repository (1986-1990)
Meetings/Events chaired, co-chaired, or co-organized
- AAAI-94 Workshop:
Case-Based Reasoning
- ICML-95 Workshop:
Applying ML in Practice (w/ Pat Riddle)
- AAAI-95 Fall
Symposium: Adaptation of Knowledge for Reuse (w/ Ashwin Ram)
- ECML-97
Workshop: Case-Based Learning: Beyond Classification of
Feature Vectors (w/ Dietrich Wettschereck)
- AAAI-98
Workshop: Case-Based Reasoning Integrations
(w/ Jody Daniels)
- AAAI-98/ICML-98 Workshop: The Methodology of Applying Machine
Learning (Chair: R. Engels)
- AAAI-99
Workshop: Exploring Synergies of Knowledge Management and
Case-Based Reasoning (w/ Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Frank
Maurer, and Hector Muñoz-Avila)
-
IJCAI-99 Workshop on Automating the Construction of Case-Based
Reasoners
(w/ Chair Sarab Anand and Agnar Aamodt)
- AAAI-00
Workshop: Intelligent Lessons Learned Systems
(w/ Rosina Weber)
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ICCBR-01 (Program Co-Chair, w/ Ian Watson; Chair Qiang Yang)
-
Semantic Web for the Military User Workshop (11/01)
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ECCBR-02 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative CBR
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ICCBR-03 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative CBR
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IJCAI-05 Workshop on Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in
Computer Games (w/ Hector Munoz-Avila & Michael van Lent)
- ICCBR-05 Workshop on Computer Games and Simulation
Environments (w/ Dave Wilson)
- FLAIRS-07 Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning
(w/ Luc Lamontagne)
- AAAI-07 AI Video Competition
(w/ Sebastian Thrun)
- AAAI-08 AI Video Competition
(w/ Sebastian Thrun)
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