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EDUCATION:

Doctor of Philosophy Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, Computer Science.

Master of Science Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, Computer Science.

Master of Electronic Engineering Philips International Institute of Technological Studies, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Electronic Engineering.

Bachelor of Engineering Andhra University, India, Electronics and Communications.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

2007 Conferred Visiting Professorship by Northeast Normal University, PRC.

2006 Nominated for an Outstanding Faculty Award at Southern Polytechnic State University.

2004 Listed in Marquis Who’s Who among America’s Teachers, 8^th edition.

2003 Conferred Honorary Professorship by Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, India.

1998 Inducted into in International Who’s Who of Information Technology, 1999 edition.

1998 Air Force Office of Scientific Research - Summer fellowship.

1997 Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the Media and Communications, 1^st edition.

1997 Air Force Office of Scientific Research - Summer fellowship.

1996 Listed in Outstanding Young Men of America.

1996 U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Summer research fellowship.

1996 Sacred Heart University - Research and Creativity grant.

1995 Listed in Men of Achievement, 17^th edition.

1995 U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Summer research fellowship.

1994 Sacred Heart University - Academics for Creative Teaching grant.

1993 Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the Midwest, 24^th edition.

1993 Morgan Kaufman Publishers - Honorarium for pre-publication review of an Artificial Intelligence textbook.

1991 Wright State University - professional development grant to organize a workshop at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference.

1980 Philips International Institute - graduate scholarship.

1979 Indian Institute of Science - graduate scholarship.

1978 National Design and Research Forum and Institution of Engineers (India) - Second prize, All India Design Competition for Engineering Students.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

2008 Six Sigma for Higher Education Training: White, Yellow, and Green Belts.

2007 University System of Georgia Administrators Workshop.

2007- Commissioner of ABET Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) – also Team Chair.

2001-06 Program Evaluator for ABET-CAC for CS programs and for IS programs. Have participated in accreditation site visits every year since 2001, unless canceled for some reason.

2007 Panelist, NSF Small Business Innovation Research Proposal Evaluation

2005 Program Committee Member, Industry and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IEA/AIE).

2005 Student Papers Chair and Program Committee Member, ACM Southeast Conference.

2001-04 Member of Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Member of International Program Committee on CST, International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).

2003 Acting Conference Chair Remarks at Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India.

2002-03 Selected Fellow of the Center for Teaching Excellence, SPSU, and completed a project.

2000-01 SIGCSE/ITiCSE Working Group on Striving for Mathematical Thinking.

1999 Participant in the Distinguished Professor Faculty Development Program, Southern Polytechnic State University.

1999 Panel on "Debugging in the Programming Course Context and in General" accepted for SECCSC-99 Conference.

1999 Judge, ACM Graduate Student Research Competition, SIGCSE-99, New Orleans, LA

1999 Judge, Fulton County Science and Engineering Fair

1998-99 Student Posters co-chair: Fourth Annual Northeastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, 1999.

1998 Judge, ACM Student Papers Competition, SIGCSE-98, Atlanta, GA.

1997-98 Papers co-chair: Third Annual Northeastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, 1998.

1991 Conceived and organized a one-day workshop at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference, entitled, Toward Domain-Independent Strategies for Abduction; also served on the program committee.

GRANTS AWARDED:

1999-2004 Co-Principal Investigator (with six other colleagues), "Yamacraw/Georgia Electronic Design Center Research on Smart Network Appliances and Related Technologies," Georgia Research Alliance, $917,000.

1998 Principal Investigator, "Information Fusion with Multiple Feature Extractors for Automatic Text Classification / Retrieval," Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $25,000.

1997 Principal Investigator, "Health Care Information Retrieval," SBIR award from the U.S. Dept. of HHS, subcontract through Systran Corp, OH, $32,581.

1996 Sacred Heart University - Research and Creativity grant, $3,000.

1996 Federation of Computing Societies in the US - Travel grant to present a paper at IFIP World Congress in Australia, $1,500.

1995 Sacred Heart University - Academics for Creative Teaching grant, $1,000.

1994 Sacred Heart University - Academics for Creative Teaching grant, $580.

1990 Principal Investigator, ``Intelligent Indexing and Retrieval of Technical Information and Related Issues,'' state of Ohio Research Challenge, $20,000.

1989 Co-investigator, ``3-week Workshop on Expert Systems for Practicing Scientists and Engineers,'' Center for AI Applications, June-September, $18,720.

INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS:

2006 Presentation at the Symposium on Best Assessment Practices VIII, on Practical Program Outcomes Assessment – A Case Study, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN.

2005 Presentation at the International Symposium on Modern Applied Technology and Management, on Information Retrieval, Classification, and Text Mining, Beijing, China.

2003 Presentation, "A Test Bed for Information Retrieval Experimentation", Proc. IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria.

2001 Presentation, "A New Frequency-Based Approach to Building Category Profiles for Text Classification", IASTED Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing.

1999 SPSU CS Colloquium, Information Fusion Experiments for Text Classification and Retrieval, March 11, 1999.

1998 IEEE Information Technology Conference, Syracuse, NY, Information Fusion Experiments for Text Classification, September 2, 1998.

1998 Computer Science colloquium, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Information Fusion for Automated Text Classification, April 8, 1998.

1997 Computer Science / Electrical Engineering colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, A Multi-Sensor Neural Net Approach to Automated Text Classification, February 7, 1997.

1996 International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) World Conference on Advanced IT Tools, Canberra, Australia, Toward a Multi-Sensor Neural Net Approach to Automatic Text Classification, September 4, 1996.

1996 NSF/DOE sponsored workshop on Foundations of Information / Decision Fusion, Washington, DC, Information Fusion for Automatic Text Classification, August 9, 1996.

1996 First Northeastern Small College Computing Conference, Hartford, CT, C++ > C + OOP (A Personal View of Teaching Introductory Programming using C/C++), April, 1996.

1996 First Northeastern Small College Computing Conference, Hartford, CT, Workshop on Object-Oriented Programming using C++, April, 1996.

1996 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium on Machine Learning in Information Access, Stanford, CA, Neural Net Learning Issues in Classification of Free Text Documents, March, 1996.

1995 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) National Aeronautics and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, Implementation of Boolean Minimization in an Abductive Framework, May, 1995.

1994 Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS), Pensacola, FL, Covering Telegraphic Text, May, 1994.

1993 Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Bangalore, India, Abductive Inference, December, 1993.

1993 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) National Aeronautics and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, An Abductive View of High Level Speech Recognition, May, 1993.

1993 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) National Aeronautics and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, Layered Irredundant Covering, May, 1993.

1992 Avionics Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, Abduction: A Crime or a Logic? April, 1992.

1991 Computer Society of India, Andhra University Student Chapter, India, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, September, 1991.

1991 Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Sydney, Australia, Parsing = Parsimonious Covering? (Abduction in Logical Form Generation), August, 1991.

1991 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Workshop on Domain-Independent Strategies for Abduction, Anaheim, CA, On the Relationship between Abductive Reasoning and Boolean Minimization, July, 1991.

1990 Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), Dayton Chapter, Abduction in Artificial Intelligence, Or AI Types Don’t Abduct, They Abduce, July 12, 1990.

1990 Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, An Abductive Model of Low Level Natural Language Processing, June 27, 1990.

1990 Fifth Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Abductive Inference in AI: Potential Unifications, June, 1990.

1989 National Aerospace Applications Conference, Dayton, OH, Tutorial on Natural Language Processing, October 23, 1989.

1989 International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), Charlotte, NC, A Non-Rule-Based Approach to a Natural Language Interface Shell, October, 1989.

1989 First Annual Conference of the International Association of Knowledge Engineers, College Park, MD, Towards Generic Knowledge-Based Interfaces, June, 1989.

1989 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Chapter, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, Natural Language Processing - An Artificial Intelligence Perspective, Spring, 1989.

1987 Third Annual IEEE Expert Systems in Government Conference, Washington, DC, An Abductive Approach to Natural Language Interfaces for Expert Systems, 1987.

1986 Second Symposium on the Role of Language in Problem Solving, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Abduction in Discourse Processing: A Parsimonious Covering Model, April, 1986.

1986 Second Symposium on the Role of Language in Problem Solving, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Panelist on Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Problem Solving, April, 1986.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Member of Board of Advisors, Dilato, Inc.

Consultant, Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc.

Offered an onsite C++ workshop to NASDAQ. Several other C++ workshops on campus and at conferences, including to Philips Medical Systems programmers.

Consultant to a Manhattan law firm (Y2K remedial software and Ada compilers).

Offered Natural Language Processing Tutorials.

Doctor of Philosophy	Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, Computer Science.
Master of Science	Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, Computer Science.
Master of Electronic Engineering	Philips International Institute of Technological Studies, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Electronic Engineering.
Bachelor of Engineering	Andhra University, India, Electronics and Communications.

2007	Conferred Visiting Professorship by Northeast Normal University, PRC.
2006	Nominated for an Outstanding Faculty Award at Southern Polytechnic State University.
2004	Listed in Marquis Who’s Who among America’s Teachers, 8^th edition.
2003	Conferred Honorary Professorship by Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, India.
1998	Inducted into in International Who’s Who of Information Technology, 1999 edition.
1998	Air Force Office of Scientific Research - Summer fellowship.
1997	Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the Media and Communications, 1^st edition.
1997	Air Force Office of Scientific Research - Summer fellowship.
1996	Listed in Outstanding Young Men of America.
1996	U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Summer research fellowship.
1996	Sacred Heart University - Research and Creativity grant.
1995	Listed in Men of Achievement, 17^th edition.
1995	U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Summer research fellowship.
1994	Sacred Heart University - Academics for Creative Teaching grant.
1993	Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the Midwest, 24^th edition.
1993	Morgan Kaufman Publishers - Honorarium for pre-publication review of an Artificial Intelligence textbook.
1991	Wright State University - professional development grant to organize a workshop at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference.
1980	Philips International Institute - graduate scholarship.
1979	Indian Institute of Science - graduate scholarship.
1978	National Design and Research Forum and Institution of Engineers (India) - Second prize, All India Design Competition for Engineering Students.

2008	Six Sigma for Higher Education Training: White, Yellow, and Green Belts.
2007	University System of Georgia Administrators Workshop.
2007-	Commissioner of ABET Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) – also Team Chair.
2001-06	Program Evaluator for ABET-CAC for CS programs and for IS programs. Have participated in accreditation site visits every year since 2001, unless canceled for some reason.
2007	Panelist, NSF Small Business Innovation Research Proposal Evaluation
2005	Program Committee Member, Industry and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IEA/AIE).
2005	Student Papers Chair and Program Committee Member, ACM Southeast Conference.
2001-04	Member of Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Member of International Program Committee on CST, International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
2003	Acting Conference Chair Remarks at Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India.
2002-03	Selected Fellow of the Center for Teaching Excellence, SPSU, and completed a project.
2000-01	SIGCSE/ITiCSE Working Group on Striving for Mathematical Thinking.
1999	Participant in the Distinguished Professor Faculty Development Program, Southern Polytechnic State University.
1999	Panel on "Debugging in the Programming Course Context and in General" accepted for SECCSC-99 Conference.
1999	Judge, ACM Graduate Student Research Competition, SIGCSE-99, New Orleans, LA
1999	Judge, Fulton County Science and Engineering Fair
1998-99	Student Posters co-chair: Fourth Annual Northeastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, 1999.
1998	Judge, ACM Student Papers Competition, SIGCSE-98, Atlanta, GA.
1997-98	Papers co-chair: Third Annual Northeastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, 1998.
1991	Conceived and organized a one-day workshop at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference, entitled, Toward Domain-Independent Strategies for Abduction; also served on the program committee.

1999-2004	Co-Principal Investigator (with six other colleagues), "Yamacraw/Georgia Electronic Design Center Research on Smart Network Appliances and Related Technologies," Georgia Research Alliance, $917,000.
1998	Principal Investigator, "Information Fusion with Multiple Feature Extractors for Automatic Text Classification / Retrieval," Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $25,000.
1997	Principal Investigator, "Health Care Information Retrieval," SBIR award from the U.S. Dept. of HHS, subcontract through Systran Corp, OH, $32,581.
1996	Sacred Heart University - Research and Creativity grant, $3,000.
1996	Federation of Computing Societies in the US - Travel grant to present a paper at IFIP World Congress in Australia, $1,500.
1995	Sacred Heart University - Academics for Creative Teaching grant, $1,000.
1994	Sacred Heart University - Academics for Creative Teaching grant, $580.
1990	Principal Investigator, ``Intelligent Indexing and Retrieval of Technical Information and Related Issues,'' state of Ohio Research Challenge, $20,000.
1989	Co-investigator, ``3-week Workshop on Expert Systems for Practicing Scientists and Engineers,'' Center for AI Applications, June-September, $18,720.

2006	Presentation at the Symposium on Best Assessment Practices VIII, on Practical Program Outcomes Assessment – A Case Study, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN.
2005	Presentation at the International Symposium on Modern Applied Technology and Management, on Information Retrieval, Classification, and Text Mining, Beijing, China.
2003	Presentation, "A Test Bed for Information Retrieval Experimentation", Proc. IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria.
2001	Presentation, "A New Frequency-Based Approach to Building Category Profiles for Text Classification", IASTED Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing.
1999	SPSU CS Colloquium, Information Fusion Experiments for Text Classification and Retrieval, March 11, 1999.
1998	IEEE Information Technology Conference, Syracuse, NY, Information Fusion Experiments for Text Classification, September 2, 1998.
1998	Computer Science colloquium, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Information Fusion for Automated Text Classification, April 8, 1998.
1997	Computer Science / Electrical Engineering colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, A Multi-Sensor Neural Net Approach to Automated Text Classification, February 7, 1997.
1996	International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) World Conference on Advanced IT Tools, Canberra, Australia, Toward a Multi-Sensor Neural Net Approach to Automatic Text Classification, September 4, 1996.
1996	NSF/DOE sponsored workshop on Foundations of Information / Decision Fusion, Washington, DC, Information Fusion for Automatic Text Classification, August 9, 1996.
1996	First Northeastern Small College Computing Conference, Hartford, CT, C++ > C + OOP (A Personal View of Teaching Introductory Programming using C/C++), April, 1996.
1996	First Northeastern Small College Computing Conference, Hartford, CT, Workshop on Object-Oriented Programming using C++, April, 1996.
1996	American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium on Machine Learning in Information Access, Stanford, CA, Neural Net Learning Issues in Classification of Free Text Documents, March, 1996.
1995	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) National Aeronautics and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, Implementation of Boolean Minimization in an Abductive Framework, May, 1995.
1994	Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS), Pensacola, FL, Covering Telegraphic Text, May, 1994.
1993	Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Bangalore, India, Abductive Inference, December, 1993.
1993	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) National Aeronautics and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, An Abductive View of High Level Speech Recognition, May, 1993.
1993	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) National Aeronautics and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, Layered Irredundant Covering, May, 1993.
1992	Avionics Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, Abduction: A Crime or a Logic? April, 1992.
1991	Computer Society of India, Andhra University Student Chapter, India, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, September, 1991.
1991	Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Sydney, Australia, Parsing = Parsimonious Covering? (Abduction in Logical Form Generation), August, 1991.
1991	American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Workshop on Domain-Independent Strategies for Abduction, Anaheim, CA, On the Relationship between Abductive Reasoning and Boolean Minimization, July, 1991.
1990	Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), Dayton Chapter, Abduction in Artificial Intelligence, Or AI Types Don’t Abduct, They Abduce, July 12, 1990.
1990	Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, An Abductive Model of Low Level Natural Language Processing, June 27, 1990.
1990	Fifth Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Abductive Inference in AI: Potential Unifications, June, 1990.
1989	National Aerospace Applications Conference, Dayton, OH, Tutorial on Natural Language Processing, October 23, 1989.
1989	International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), Charlotte, NC, A Non-Rule-Based Approach to a Natural Language Interface Shell, October, 1989.
1989	First Annual Conference of the International Association of Knowledge Engineers, College Park, MD, Towards Generic Knowledge-Based Interfaces, June, 1989.
1989	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Chapter, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, Natural Language Processing - An Artificial Intelligence Perspective, Spring, 1989.
1987	Third Annual IEEE Expert Systems in Government Conference, Washington, DC, An Abductive Approach to Natural Language Interfaces for Expert Systems, 1987.
1986	Second Symposium on the Role of Language in Problem Solving, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Abduction in Discourse Processing: A Parsimonious Covering Model, April, 1986.
1986	Second Symposium on the Role of Language in Problem Solving, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Panelist on Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Problem Solving, April, 1986.