Biographical Sketch

I have recently been assigned as the Code TI technical project manager and coordinator for research activities at Sustainability Base , where I perform the following duties:

1. Technical and research lead coordinator for deployment/insertion of advanced Code TI controls and ISHM technologies for Sustainability Base.
2. Co-facilitator for external partnership research, logistics, and resource efforts for Sustainability Base.
3. Co-coordinator for internal partnership IT, maintenance and engineering efforts for Sustainability Base as they relate to research objectives.

I am also currently part of the Intelligent Data Understanding (IDU) Group, where my research is focused on three main project areas:

1. Supporting the SSAT project of the Aviation Safety Program using dynamic heterogeneous approaches for diagnosis, prediction/forecasting of adverse events, and mitigation/response to such events including methods developed in-house and those developed by NRA and SBIR/STTR partners.
2. Research, development, deployment & maturation of technologies related to the area of optimal alarm systems, in which level-crossings of a dynamic system can be predicted with the fewest false alarms possible. This research has application to the program(s) mentioned above, and potentially others within the Aeronautics Research and Science Mission Directorates.

I previously supported the IVHM project of the Aviation Safety Program supporting similar objectives as I'm currently pursuing in the SSAT project, but on a smaller scale. I also supported the ground-based diagnostics project for Ares I-X of the Constellation program, via development and deployment of data-driven technologies, and worked on the development of data-driven failure/fault detection algorithms for the liquid propulsion-based SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine) for the ISHM project of the Exploration Technology Development Program (ETDP). I also helped with textual data mining to classify and identify unknown recurring anomalies from airline incident reports using existing and novel methods.

I was previously part of the Embedded Decision Systems Group where I worked on the prediction of operator intent and optimization of algorithms based upon Hidden Markov Models for telepresence of remotely supervised humanoid robots (Robonaut).

My other research interests include the intersection of the following areas:

1. Detection & Estimation
2. Fault & Anomaly Prediction
3. Machine Learning
4. Control Theory

Educational Background

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (2004)
University of California at Berkeley
Dissertation: Optimal Prediction, Alarm, and Control in Buildings Using Thermal Sensation Complaints

M.S., Mechanical Engineering (2000)
University of California at Berkeley
Thesis: Optimized Response to Thermal Sensation Complaints in Buildings

B.S., Mechanical Engineering (1992)
Carnegie-Mellon University

Professional Activities/Service

Previous Non-Matriculating Research, Instruction, and Engineering Activity
2002 Mechanical Engineering Department, UC Berkeley Laboratory Graduate Student Instructor for ME230: Engineering Applications of Mini and Micro Computers (Mechatronics Software)
2002 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Commercial Building Systems Group Graduate Student Summer Researcher (Model-based fault detection methods for HVAC systems, fault diagnosis using expert rules and inference using fuzzy logic)
1999 Berkeley Center for Control and Identification, UC Berkeley Graduate Student Summer Researcher (Optical telescopic control system identification, LPV fault-tolerant flight control, and data processing hardware)
1998 Center for Environmental Design Research, UC Berkeley Graduate Student Summer Researcher (Database design & development of management software for energy efficiency improvements in commercial building air handling systems via calculation of scientific data metrics)
1995 Certified Engineer-In-Training, CA
1992 Pennsylvania State University Undergraduate Summer Research Program Intern in Mechanical Engineering (Control Systems and Mechatronics, Computer Networking), funded by the National Science Foundation

Previous Active and Reserve Duty Military Service
2004 - 2005 LCDR, USNR (Engineering Duty Officer (reserve) - Office of Naval Research Science & Technology Unit 114)
2003 - 2004 LT, USNR (Civil Engineer Corps (reserve) - Office of Naval Research Science & Technology Unit 114)
1999 - 2003 LT, USNR (Civil Engineer Corps (reserve) - Contingency Engineer, Engineering Field Activity, Pacific)
1996 - 1997 LT, USN (Civil Engineer Corps (active) - Facility Systems Integrator, Navy Public Works Center San Diego, CA)
1994 - 1996 LTJG, USN (Civil Engineer Corps (active) - Assistant Zone Manager, Navy Public Works Center San Diego, CA)
1993 - 1994 ENS, USNR (Nuclear Power School - student (active duty), Civil Engineer Corps Officer School - student (active duty))

Professional Society Memberships
AIAA (2012 - current, senior member)
IEEE (2012 - current, senior member)
AIAA (2010 - 2012, regular member)
IEEE (2005 - 2012, regular member)
IEEE (2002 - 2004, student member)
ASHRAE (2002 - 2004, student member)

Program Committee Memberships and Conference Reviews
2013 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2013, paper reviewer)
2012 8th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SafeProcess 2012, paper reviewer)
2012 American Control Conference (ACC 2012, paper reviewer)
2011 Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society (PHM 2011, paper reviewer)
2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC 2011, paper reviewer)
2009 Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU, poster session reviewer)
2009 SIAM International Data Mining Conference (SDM 2009, Technical program committee member paper reviewer)
2009 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2009, Technical program committee paper reviewer for Industrial track)
2009 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2009, Technical program committee member paper reviewer)
2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2008, Technical program committee member paper reviewer)
2008 International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM08, paper reviewer)
2007 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2007, supporting external paper reviewer)
2007 SIAM International Data Mining Conference (SDM 2007, supporting external paper reviewer)
2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2007, supporting external paper reviewer)
2007 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2007, supporting external paper reviewer)
2007 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007, supporting external paper reviewer)
2006 Stanford AAAI symposium (Robotics, supporting external paper reviewer)
2001 20th American Control Conference (ACC 2001, supporting external reviewer)

Journal & Magazine Reviews
2012 Information Fusion Journal (by Elsevier), article reviewer
2011 IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Magazine, article reviewer
2010-2011 Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, article reviewer
2010 Information Fusion Journal (by Elsevier), article reviewer and review manager for detection & estimation, time series, fault, event, and level-crossing prediction, machine learning and control theory
2009 IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TREL) special section dedicated to Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), article reviewer
2008 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT) for detection & estimation theory, article reviewer

Volunteer Organizations
BUILD academic mentor & volunteer, tutoring mathematics & physics (Fall 2009 - Spring 2012)