Biographies:
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Gabbay (Dov M.),
Plenary Talk (cancelled), Session
ThA1
Dov M. Gabbay is Professor at the Department of Philosophy and
the Department of Computer Science at King's College, London. He received a BSc
in Mathematics and Physics and an MSc in Logic from Hebrew University,
Jerusalem in 1966 and 1967, respectively. In 1969 he completed his PhD in
Logic, also at Hebrew University. He has been Assistant (1970-1973) and
Associate (1973-1975) Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, Professor
of Logic at Bar-Ilan University (1977-1983) , and Professor of Computing at
Imperial College London (1983-1998). He joined King's College in 1998. He has
also been a Visiting Member of the Royal Society and Visiting Research
Professor, Mathematics Institute, University of Oxford (1978); Visiting
Research Professor of Logic and Language, University of Tübingen (1988);
Visiting Research Professor of Logic and Language, University of Munich (1990);
Visiting Professor of Logic and Language, University of Stuttgart (1992); A
Research Professor, Max-Planck Institute, Saarbruecken (1991-1995) and a
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, King's College, London (1997). During
1979-1981, he served as Chairman, Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science, Bar-Ilan University. During 1985-1996, he was an Adjunct Professor,
University of Georgia and during (1992-1997), he has got a SERC Senior Research
(sabbatical) Fellowship at Imperial College. His research interests include
Logic and Computation, Dynamics of Practical Reasoning, Proof Theory and
Goal-directed Theorem Proving, Non-classical Logics and Non-monotonic
Reasoning, Labelled Deductive Systems, Fibring Logics, and Logical Modelling of
Natural Language. More recently he has been looking at practical reasoning
structures in Plato and Aristotle. Professor Dov M. Gabbay is one of the
world's most active and influential researchers in logic. He has published over
two hundred research papers and many books and he is Editor of several
international journals, Executive of European Foundation of Logic Language and
Information and president of The International IGPL Logic Group.
Garbiras (M.),
Session TuD5
Garcia Herrero (Jesús),
Session WeB5, WeC5
Jesús Garcia Herrero received a degree in
Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in
1996. He has worked in the Signal Processing and Simulation Group of the same
university since 1995, participating in several national and European projects
related to Air Traffic Control, and some co-operations with university at USA.
His main interests are Radar Data Processing, Navigation and Air Traffic
Managment, with special stress in Data Fusion for Airport Environments.
Garzelli (Andrea),
Session ThC3
Gasarch (Carolyn) ,
Session WeD4
Carolyn Gasarch received her M.S. in Computer Science from the
University of Maryland in 1989, with an emphasis in Software Engineering. She
then worked for the Naval Research Lab for 8 years in a section which did
research with specification languages and verification systems to improve
development of real time software engineering systems. In 1997, she came to the
University of Maryland as a Faculty Research Assistant where she has worked
with (1) PARKA, a high performance knowledge base system, (2) SHOE, an
extension of HTML to provide ontological structure to web pages for machine use
and improved knowledge gathering, and (3) IMPACT, a project to develop both a
theory and an implementation of software agents to operate in a heterogeneous,
distributed environment. While in graduate school the NASA Goddard group she
did her thesis work with received a group award; the NASA Group Achievement
Award for the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) project. She is a member of IEEE and
ACM.
Gautier (Laurent),
Session TuC5
Gavin Canti (Gonzalo) ,
Session WeC5
Gonzalo Gavin Canti graduated in Aeronautical Engineering from
the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1985. Since 1986 he has worked
for INDRA-DTD in the ATM Division, where he has been responsible for various
projects in cooperation with European organisations and with the Spanish Air
traffic service provider AENA, participating in the ADS Collaboration Group of
Eurocontrol. He has been involved in areas related with Radar Data Processing,
Flight Data Processing, ADS and Data Link applications in advanced air traffic
control systems. He has installed and tunned operational ATC systems in
different ACCs as Russia, Honduras or Spain.
Goebel (K.),
Session TuD5
Kai Goebel received the degree of Diplom-Ingenieur from the
Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany in 1990. He received the M.S. and Ph.D.
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993 and 1996, respectively.
Dr. Goebel joined General Electric's Corporate Research and Development
facility in Schenectady, NY in 1997 as a computer scientist after working as a
visiting postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley from 1996 to 1997. He has carried
out applied research in the areas of artificial intelligence, soft computing,
and information fusion. He has worked on using soft computing techniques for
real time monitoring and diagnosis of aircraft engines, power plants, and
manufacturing processes, and for both data fusion and decision fusion in
automated vehicle control systems, aircraft engines, and manufacturing systems.
Dr. Goebel is an adjunct professor of the CS Department at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, since 1998 where he teaches classes in
Soft Computing.
Gonsalves (Paul),
Session ThB1
Grandin (Jean-François),
Session MoC3
J.-F. Grandin is member of the Thomson-CSF DETEXIS company. He
worked since 1983 in the field of Electronic Warfare. He had worked mostly on
several applications and technical developments of information processing. This
includes signal theory, data analysis, expert systems, neural networks,
statistics. He has conceived different information processing chains for ELINT
and Situation Assessment systems ; In this field he is concerned with
multi-sensor data fusion.
Grenier (D.),
Session TuB4
Gruyer (Dominique),
Session TuC2, TuD2
Dominique Gruyer received the M.S. degree in computer science
from the Amiens University, France, in 1993 and the PhD degree in control of
systems from the University of Technology of Compiegne, France in 1999. He is
assistant professor in computer engineering Department at the University of
Technology of Compiegne. His research interest in the Heudiasyc- CNRS
laboratory includes data fusion algorithms, data association, belief theory,
perception for Intelligent vehicles.
Gunes (M.),
Invited Session Chair, TuD4
Dr. Gunes graduated from the department of Mathematic, Faculty
of Science University of Ege,1978. He has received his master degree from the
depart. of Computer Engineering of Ege University, Izmir,1984. He completed his
Doctoral Project on Operational Research and Optimization at the University of
Ottawa, Canada,1989. He has organized "National Econometrics and Statistics
Symposium", twice, and completed fourth session of it in May 1999. Dr. Gunes
was also member of the organizing committee of the 51th session of the
International Statistical Association, held in TURKEY in 1998. At the same time
he was consultant of the Head of The Turkey State Statistical Institute during
last two years. Now , he and his small group, are working on Fuzzy Logic in
Turkey and trying to establish National Fuzzy logic Association by consulting
to the Father Of Fuzzy Logic, Lofti Zadeh from USA.
Güngor (Ibrahim) ,
Session TuD4
Gustafson (Steven),
Session MoC4
Dr. Steven C. Gustafson is Associate Professor in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of
Technology, Dayton OH. He was Senior Research Physicist at the University of
Dayton until 1998; he received the Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University in
1974. He is an author of more than 200 publicly available technical papers,
proceedings, and reports, most of which relate to optical processing and neural
network technology. He has been initiator and principal investigator on more
than $2 million in research contracts and grants in these areas since 1990.
Gutschoven (B.),
Session ThB3
Hai (Zhao) ,
Session TuD5
Halliwell (Mike),
Session MoD3
Michael Halliwell was born on March 23rd 1945 and graduated in
physics at Bristol University in 1963. His doctorate was concerned with the
numerical calculation of the generation of ultrasound fields in lossless media
and with measurement of their deformation during transmission through
biological tissues in vivo. This work was completed at the General Hospital in
Bristol. He has worked at the Medical Physics and Bioengineering Department at
Bristol General Hospital since then, investigating the biological and
therapeutic effects of ultrasound in addition to developing diagnostic
applications. His current position is as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre
for Physics and Engineering in Medicine at the University of Bristol. His
current interests include the application of ultrasound to breast cancer
detection, the development of 3-D imaging and physiological measurement with
Doppler techniques.
Hallsworth (Rodney),
Session ThC2
Han (Chongzhao),
Sessions MoC2, ThB4, ThC4
Prof. Chongzhao Han received a B.S. degree from Xi'an
Jiaotong University, China, and an M.S. degree from of Academia Sinica,
Beijing, PRC. From 1968 to 1978, he worked as an engineer in the Northwest
Optical Instruments Works, Xi'an, PRC. He worked in the Institute of
Systems Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong From 1983 to 1996 as a Lecturer,
Associate Professor, and Professor. He joined the School of Electronic and
Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1996, where he is
now a Professor and Associate Dean. From August 1985 to April 1986, he was a
Visiting Fellow in Control Engineering Center, the City University, London,
U.K. He has published four books in Chinese, more than 60 papers in the areas
of stochastic and adaptive Control, nonlinear spectral analysis, nonlinear
system identification, decision theory and decision support systems.
Hannah (Paul), ,
Session MoD5
Harmon (P.) ,
Session TuC3
Hartana (P.),
Session WeD5
Pande Hartana currently is a master student in autonomous
vehicle at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada. His current research interests include guidance,
navigation, and control of autonomous vehicle.
He (Zhenya) ,
Session WeB4
Heifetz (M.I.),
Session WeC5
Ho (T.-J.),
Session MoD2
Hong (Lang),
Session TuD2
Hou (Pingkui),
Session ThC2
Hubert-Moy (Laurence),
Session WeD3
Igual (J.) ,
Session WeD3
Ijspeert (J.K.) ,
Session TuD3
Ireland (D.B.) ,
Session TuD3
Iwanaga (Saori),
Session MoC5
Ms. Saori Iwanaga graduated from Utsunomiya in 1994, and she
majored in Chemistry. She joined Air-self Defense Force, as she is now 1st
Lieutenant. In 1999, she entered the National Defense Academy as a master
student. She is now studying decentralized algorithm. She is also
interested in complex theory, evolutionary games. She has presented several
papers of her research results in these areas.
Jarkas (I.) ,
Session WeB5
Jarry (Benoit),
Session TuC1
Benoit Jarry has received his batchelor of Science degree from
the Electrical and Computer Science Engineering at McGill University, Montreal,
Canada in 1999. Since then, he is currently accomplishing his master of
engineering thesis in data fusion at McGill University.
Jing (Tang) ,
Session WeB4
Joki (Ari J.) ,
Session ThB5
Jouan (Alexandre),
Sessions MoD2, ThB2
Alexandre Jouan earned his PhD in Physics – Image and
Signal Processing in 1987 from the Université de Franche-Comté at
Besancon, France. After ten years of research an development in image
processing for medical imaging, he joined the Department of Research and
Development of Lockheed Martin Canada- Montreal in 1997. He is currently
Principal Investigator of a Defense Industrial Research Program aiming at
developing an agent-based Multi Sensor Data Fusion test-bed using imaging and
non-imaging sensors for airborne surveillance. He is author or co-author of
about 30 papers in medical image processing, data fusion, estimation and target
tracking. Dr. Jouan is member of SPIE, IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Society
and the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute.
Jousselme (Anne-Laure),
Session TuB4
Jungert (Erlang) ,
Sessions TuD5,WeD4
Kadar (Ivan),
Session TuB2
Dr. Ivan Kadar received the B.E.E. degree from City College of
the City University of New York, the M.S.E.E. degree from Columbia University,
New York and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic
Institute of New York. He is a New York State Registered Professional Engineer.
In 1963 he joined Grumman Corp. (now Northrop Grumman). He has initiated,
managed and performed research in data fusion, tracking, automated target
recognition, knowledge-based intelligent systems, communications, and related
areas for the past 18 years. From January 1995 until March 1998 he was a
Principal Scientist, Systems Sciences, in the Advanced Systems and Technology
Center. Since March 1998 he has been working for Northrop Grumman as an
Independent Consultant. In addition, as proprietor of Interlink, he consults
part-time for other companies and government research laboratories. During 1981
to 1995, he was Technical Advisor to the Directors of Systems Engineering and
Advanced Technology Development at Grumman, and was responsible for conceptual
design, technical direction, original applied research, organization and
supervision of professionals, and management of R & D programs. In
addition, during 1979-1981 he worked with IBM's T. J. Watson Research
Center, in Systems Analysis, Algorithms, Networking and Satellite
Communications of Computer Sciences. Prior to that as Technical
Specialist/Group Leader at Grumman, he worked on systems and algorithms designs
for spaced-based radar concepts, Global Positioning System, satellite, space
and terrestrial communications systems. He currently serves as Northrop
Grumman's Principal Investigator for the "Correlation and Fusion
Algorithms Measures-of-Merits", and "A Self Organizing Cooperative Sensor
Network for Precision Targeting" programs. His research interests include:
centralized, distributed and adaptive information fusion, multi-target
tracking, fusion systems performance optimization and evaluation, distributed
connection and resource management, communications systems and networks,
signal/pattern/target/detection and recognition, robust estimation, statistical
image processing, reasoning with uncertainty, integration of system techniques,
distributed decision making, artificial intelligence, and medical informatics.
Dr. Kadar was Industry Chair of the Technology Committee of the Automatic
Target Recognizer Working Group 1995-1997. Since 1988, he has been invited
conference organizer and chair of SPIE's Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion,
and Target Recognition I-IX conferences. He has been a participant in the DoD
Data Fusion Group, Member of the organizing committee of the National Symposium
on Sensor and Data Fusion, and Steering Committee Member for the International
Conference on Multisource Multisensor Information Fusion, serves on the
Editorial Board of the Information Fusion Journal and served on the AIAA
National Technical Committee on Communications Systems. He has authored more
than 75 papers, edited two books and ten conference volumes, serves as reviewer
for a number of refereed journals, and has been invited speaker and panel
participant at DOD, industrial, society and university functions. Dr. Kadar is
the recipient of the IEEE Region I Award, IEEE Aerospace and Electronics
Systems Society's M. Barry Carlton Best Paper Award, and AIAA Space
Shuttle Flag Award. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Senior Member of the IEEE and
an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.
Kastella (Keith),
Session TuB2
Keith Kastella received his Ph.D. in high energy physics from
State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1988. In 1989 he joined Unisys
(now Lockheed Martin) where he did research and development in a number of
tracking and data fusion technologies. This includes mean field methods in
event averaged maximum likelihood estimation, discrimination based sensor
management, joint multitarget probability methods and finite difference methods
for nonlinear filtering. In 1998 he joined Veridian ERIM International where he
is a research engineer in the Advanced Information Systems Group.
Ke (Chih-Chung),
Session WeB5
Chih-Chung Ke received a BS degree in electrical engineering
from National Sun Yet-Sen University, Taiwan, and an MS degree in communication
engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He was a design
engineer for development of Chinese character paging system at INFOCOMM Inc.,
Taiwan, during 1990-1991. He joined Ming-Hsin Junior College of Technology as a
lecturer during 1991-1994. He was a teaching assistant during 1995-1997 and is
currently a PhD candidate in department of electrical engineering, State
University of New York at Buffalo. Since 1997, he has been a research assistant
in Center for Multisource Information Fusion, State University of New York at
Buffalo. His research interests include Information Fusion, Target Tracking,
Image/Signal processing, and Pattern Recognition.
Keiser (G.M.),
Session WeC5
Kendal (Simon),
Session WeC4
Simon Kendal is a Snr. lecturer at the University of Sunderland,
UK. Since 1994 he has been the coordinator of the HyM, Hybrid Methodology
research group, currently employing 6 researchers and additional supervision
staff. Current research projects center on the integration, distribution and
quality assurance of hybrid integrated AI / conventional information systems.
He is editor of a book on the HyM the Hybrid Methodology - due to be published
in early 2001.
Kent (John),
Session ThB1
John Kent is a principal consultant with Hi-Q Systems. He has
worked with a variety of customers from industry, the UK Ministry of Defence,
the land component of its commands, and its agencies (including DERA, the
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency). Mr Kent worked with DERA as part of
the UK team that participated in the NATO Data Fusion Demonstrator programme,
and was responsible for the delivery of a scenario and simulated message file
that was used to exercise an experimental data fusion system. More recently, he
has been working on the G2 aspects of Command and Staff Training (CAST), and
interoperability between CAST simulations and operational CIS systems.
Keskes (N.),
Session TuB5
Kester (L.J.H.M.),
Sessions TuD1, ThB5
Leon Kester received his M.Sc. degree from the Low Temperature
Group of the Physics department of the Delft University of Technology. He
received his Ph. D. degree (nuclear physics) from the Free University of
Amsterdam. Since 1995 he works at the TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory in
The Hague in the radar signal processing section of the division observation
systems. His work concerns signal and data processing for automatic target
recognition with Doppler polarimetric and/or multi-sensor systems.
Kettani (Driss),
Session TuD1
Kim (J.), Session WeB3
Kirubarajan (Thiaglingam),
Session TuD2
Thiaglingam Kirubarajan was born in Sri Lanka in 1969. He
received his B.A. degree in electrical and information engineering from
Cambridge University, England, in 1991, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Connecticut in 1995 and 1998, respectively. While in England he
worked for the Central Electricity Research Laboratories, Leatherhead, Surrey,
as a research assistant. From 1991 to 1993 he was an assistant lecturer in
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
during 1993-1998 he was a graduate student/research assistant at the University
of Connecticut, Storrs. His research interests are in estimation and target
tracking. Currently he is Research Assistant Professor of Electrical and
Systems Engineering at the University of Connecticut.
Kittler (J. ),
Session ThC5
Josef Kittler graduated from the University of Cambridge in
Electrical Engineering in 1971 where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Pattern
Recognition in 1974 and the ScD degree in 1991. He joined the University of
Surrey in 1986 where he is a Professor in charge of the Centre for Vision,
Speech and Signal Processing, at the School of Electronic Engineering,
Information Technology and Mathematics. He has worked on various theoretical
aspects of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision with applications including
automatic inspection, navigation, personal identity verification,ECG diagnosis,
remote sensing, robotics, speech recognition, video coding, video retrieval and
document processing. He has co-authored a book with the title "Pattern
Recognition: a statistical approach'' published by Prentice-Hall. He is a
member of the Editorial Boards of Pattern Recognition Journal, Image and Vision
Computing, Pattern Recognition Letters, Pattern Recognition and Artificial
Intelligence, and Machine Vision and Applications.
Klamer (Dale M.),
Session MoC1
Dale Klamer is Vice President, Director of Technology, at
Orincon Corporation. He received a BS and MS in Mathematics from San Diego
State University in 1972. His research interests are in adaptive data fusion,
advanced tracking, and information assurance.
Komorniczak (W.),
Session WeC1
Kotkas (Vahur),
Session WeB4
Vahur Kotkas (b. 1971) graduated from Tallinn Technical
University, Estonia in 1999 with a M.Sc. in computer systems engineering. He
joined the Software Department of the Institute of Cybernetics at TTU in 1993,
where he is currently working as a researcher. He is also a PhD student of
Department of Computer Control of Tallinn Technical University since 1999. His
research interests include knowledge-based engineering and modeling, network
management and high-performance parallel computing.
Krechetov (A.S.),
Session WeC5
Kruse (Andreas),
Session TuB5
Kurzynski (Marek),
Session TuC5
Labiche (Jacques),
Session MoD4
Lallier (E),
Session WeC3
Lantz (Fredrik) ,
Session WeD4
La Scala (Barbara),
Session WeD1
Barbara La Scala received a BSc in Statistics from the
University of Melbourne, Australia in 1987 and a PhD in Systems Engineering on
the stability of non-linear filters from the Australian National University in
1994. She has worked in the area of target tracking and data fusion, first with
the Co-operative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing,
and later with RLM Systems Pty Ltd on the Jindalee Over-the-horizon Radar
Network (JORN). She is currently employed by The Preston Group, a subsidiary of
the Boeing Company.
Laurençot (Thierry) ,
Session TuC3
Layne (Jeffery R.),
Session TuB1
Jeffery R. Layne (Member IEEE) received his BS in Electrical
Engineering from Wright State University in 1990 and his MS and Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1992 and 1996,
respectively. Dr. Layne is currently an Electronics Engineer in the Sensor ATR
Technology Division of the Sensors Directorate of the Wright Laboratories at
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. At Wright Laboratory, Dr. Layne has gained
experience in target tracking and integrated inertial navigation systems,
global positioning systems, and synthetic aperture radar. Dr. Layne has served
as Research Intern at both Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio and Wright
Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio. He also worked for two years as an Engineering co-op
at Armco Steel Corporation, Middletown, Ohio. Dr. Layne's current research
interests include multiple sensor - multiple target tracking, navigation
systems, optimal estimation, Kalman filtering, stochastic systems, and fuzzy
systems.
Leatham (Anthony L.) ,
Session TuD3
Le Cadre (Jean-Pierre), Sessions WeB1, WeC1
Dr. Jean-Pierre Le Cadre received a M.S. degree in Mathematics,
then the "Doctorat de 3ième cycle" in 1982 and the "Doctorat
d'Etat" in 1987, both from INPG, Grenoble, France. From 1980 to 1989, he worked
at the GERDSM ( Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherche en Detection Sous-Marine), a
laboratory of the DCN ( Direction des Constructions Navales, Toulon), mainly on
array processing. In this area, he conducted both theoretical and practical
researches (towed arrays, high resolution methods, performance analysis,
detection and estimation, etc.) and leaded a CNRS working team. Since 1989, he
is with IRISA/CNRS (Rennes), where is Directeur de recherche at CNRS (National
Center of Scientific Research). His interests have now moved towards other
domains like system analysis, detection, multitarget tracking, data association
and operations research. He has authored several publications, in various
journals (IEEE , IEE, Automatica, SIAM, Signal Processing, Traitement du
Signal, etc. ), and received the 1993 Eurasip Best Paper Award. He has also
supervised several Ph.D and conducted research with international and
industrial partners.
Leclet (H.),
Session TuC5
Lefevre (Eric),
Session MoD4
Leibowicz (Isabelle),
Session TuC2
Isabelle Leibowicz received her Diplôme
d'Études Approfondies in Statistics from the University of Paris 6
in 1994. She's preparing her Ph.D at THOMSON-CSF Detexis in cooperation
with IRISA. Her research interests are multisensor fusion and multisensor
management.
Le Moigne (Jacqueline) ,
Session TuB3
Lennon (Marc),
Session WeD3
Marc Lennon received the B.S. degree in electronics and signal
processing from the IUP of the University of Valenciennes, France, in 1995, the
M.S. degree in signal, image and speech processing from the INSA of Lyon,
France, 1996. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in signal and image
processing at the ENST-Bretagne, Brest, France. His main research focus on
airborne hyperspectral image processing for environmental studies.
Lepage (R.),
Session WeD5
Lesser (V.),
Session ThC2
Li (X.Rong),
Sessions MoC2, TuC2, WeD1, ThB2(2), ThC4, and ThA1
(Plenary Talk)
Professor X. Rong Li received a B.S. degree and an M.S. degree
from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, PRC, in 1982 and 1984,
respectively, and an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree from University of
Connecticut, USA, in 1990 and 1992, respectively. He joined University of New
Orleans in 1994. During 1986-1987 he did research on electric power at
University of Calgary, Canada. He was an Assistant Professor at University of
Hartford, from 1992 to 1994. Professor Li has published three books:
Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking (YBS Publishing, 1995), Estimation
and Tracking (Artech House, 1993), and Probability, Random Signals, and
Statistics (CRC Press, 1999); four book chapters; more than two dozen
articles in leading journals; more than 70 conference papers. Dr. Li has served
as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
since 1995; received a Career award and an RIA award from National Science
Foundation, USA; received 1995 Early Career Award for excellence in Research
from University of New Orleans; served as Steering Chair and General Vice-Chair
for 1998 and 1999 International Conference on Information Fusion, respectively;
given numerous seminars and short courses in U.S., Europe and Asia; won several
outstanding paper awards; honored as a Guest Professor by Northwestern
Polytechnic University, China; listed in Marquis' Who's Who in the World,
Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering; and
consulted for several companies.
Liau (Churn-Jung),
Session MoD4
Churn-Jung Liau received a B.S., an M.S. and a Ph.D in
information engineering and computer science from National Taiwan University in
1985, 1987 and 1992 respectively. Since then he joined the Institute of
Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan as an assistant research
fellow. He becomes an associate research fellow since 1997. His major research
interest includes artificial intelligence, uncertainty reasoning, and logic
science.
Lin (Liangji),
Session ThC2
Lingyu (Xu),
Session TuD5
Liu (F.), Session TuC3(2)
Llinas (James),
Sessions TuC2, WeB5
James Llinas brings over 20 years of experience in multisource
information processing and data fusion technology to his research, teaching,
and business development activities. He is an internationally recognized expert
in sensor, data, and information fusion, co-authored the first integrated book
on Multisensor Data Fusion, and has lectured internationally for about 14 years
on this topic. He is a Technical Advisor to the Defense Department's Joint
Directors of Laboratories Data Fusion Group, a position he has held for 12
years. His experience in applying this technology to different problem areas
ranges from defense applications to non-defense applications to include
intelligent transportation systems, medical diagnostics, and condition-based
maintenance, among others. Current research activities related to the field of
Information Fusion include funded programs in Automated Reasoning; Distributed,
Cooperative Problem-Solving; Scientific Foundations of Data Correlation
Techniques; Fuzzy Logic for Adaptive Correlation and Tracking, among several
others. Dr. Llinas created the concept for and is now Director for the newly
created and USAF-sponsored "Center for Multisource Information Fusion" located
at the State University of New York at Buffalo. This first-of-its-kind,
University-based research center has now reached the point where it is
receiving funding from a wide variety of clients, and is conducting basic
research in Distributed Situational Estimation and in Correlation Science,
among other topics. The Center has also established some research in
non-defense applications to include multi-spectral mammography for breast
cancer research, and condition-based maintenance for helicopter system
maintenance.
Løkka (A.),
Session TuD1
Looney (Carl G.),
Session WeD1
Carl G. Looney is Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Nevada, Reno, where he has been in the CS Dept. for 10 years. He
was in the EE/CS Dept. for the preceding 6 years. Before that he was at Hughes
Ground Systems in Southern California and at other defense companies. Prof.
Looney has done simulation of air defense systems, verification and validation
of tracking software for the Peacekeeper ICBM, and modification of Kalman
filtering software for tracking cruise missiles. His interests include
adaptive/intelligent systems, fuzzy/neural systems, image processing, and
computational algorithms.
Loonis (Pierre),
Session TuC5
Loriette-Rougegrez (S.) ,
Session WeB5
Luettgen (Mark),
Session TuB1
Mark Luettgen received SB, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1988, 1990, and 1993, respectively. He has been at ALPHATECH Inc. in
Burlington, MA since1993, and has been involved in a wide range of image
processing, signal processing, data fusion, and optimization related programs.
Since 1998, he has been Project Lead and Project Manager on the DARPA Dynamic
Database (DDB) program under which he is leading the development of All-Source
Track and Identity Fuser (ATIF) software. ATIF fuses SIGINT (including COMINT
and ELINT), MTI, and SAR and EO-based IMINT target information to recursively
estimate the kinematic and identity state of ground order of battle targets. He
currently serves as Division Manager of the ALPHATECH Fusion Technology and
Systems Division.
Luo (Jiebo),
Session WeB3
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