Faculty

Research Interests

• Robotics and AI
  • Deep learning from demonstration
  • Vision-based end-to-end learning
  • Human-robot teaming
  • Meta learning
• Autonomous agents
  • Modeling of human behavior in social and cultural environments
  • Mutable agents
• Cognitive architectures
  • Narrative reasoning
• Distributed and grid computing
  • Task scheduling and resource allocation
• Wireless networking
  • Sensor networks with mobile sinks and nodes
  • Value of information-based approaches

Other Experience

• Visiting Researcher, Hungarian Academy of Science 1994-95
• Infrastructure Architect, CPlane Inc. 2000-2002
• Visiting Researcher, Imperial College, London, 2011
• Visiting Researcher, University of Rome La Sapienza, 2012
• Visiting Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 2018-2019.
• Member of Technical Advisory Board / Chief Architect, MosaixSoft Inc 2015-2017
• Co-Founder, Ximpatico Robotics

Professional Activities

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
• Panel reviewer (NSF, NASA, NIH, NIST)
• Member IEEE (senior), ACM, AAAI

Honors & Awards

• Kurzweil Best Artificial General Intelligence Idea Prize 2014
• Best Paper Award ICC 2013
• NASA Software Award 2005
• UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA) 2019