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Education
| Ph.D. |
August, 1999
Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dissertation: Market Structure and Multidimensional Auction Design for Computational Economies
Advisor: Michael P. Wellman |
| M.S. |
May, 1996
Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| M.S. |
May, 1988
Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Concentration in mechanical design. |
| S.B. |
June 1987
Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Humanities concentration in creative writing. MVP, two-time captain of the varsity wrestling team. |
Employment
| 2005 - present |
Founding VP, currently Engineering Fellow at Kiva Systems, Woburn, MA. Kiva builds innovative solutions for warehouses using mobile robots to move transportable shelving units. Responsible for algorithm design and software architecture. |
| 2005 - present |
Associate Professor, Computer Science, North Carolina State University. |
| 1999 - 2005 |
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, North Carolina State University. Leader of the Intelligent Commerce Research Lab. |
| 1995 - 1999 |
Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab. Project leader, system architect, interface designer, database programmer for the Michigan Internet AuctionBot, a configurable auction server. |
| Fall, 1996 |
Graduate Student Instructor, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. |
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1989 - 1995
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Instructional Software Designer, Office of Instructional Technology, University of Michigan. Collaborate with faculty to design, develop and evaluate computer-based instructional software. |
| 1988 - 1995 |
President, Cider Mill Software Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
Registered Apple Developer. Macintosh programming, multimedia development, and software prototyping services. Clients include Steelcase, Motorola, Deka Research and Development, EDUCOM, and others. |
| 1988 - 1989 |
Computer Systems Consultant, School of Education, University of Michigan. |
Research Funding
Automated Synthesis of Bidding Strategies. Funded by NSF under the CAREER program within the Cognitive and Social Systems program. $300,000 over 5 years.
Protecting Network Quality of Service Against Denial of Service Attacks. Funded by DARPA (Inherent Information Survivability) for $232,622 over 2 years with Douglas Reeves.
Undergraduate Research Award with Abdul Masri. $5,000.
Predicting Market Value from Sparse Sales Data. Sponsored by John Deere
Corporation, January - May, 2000. $15,000.
Academic Service
Co-Director, E-commerce at NC State program.
Founding Editor-in-Chief, SIGecom Exchanges, the official newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce.
Co-General Chair, Co-Program Chair, Third International Symposium on Electronic Commerce, Raleigh, North Carolina on October 18-19, 2002.
Co-organizer, Trading Agent Competition. An international competition and workshop held to encourage research in trading agents. The first contest was held at the International Conference of Multi-Agent Systems, July, 2000. The second contest was held at the Third ACM Conference on E-commerce, October, 2001.
Co-organizer, IJCAI Workshop on Economic Agents, Models, and Mechanisms. Held at the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in August, 2001.
Workshops, Honors, and Awards
Best Paper Award, Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC-03), Pittsburgh, October, 2003.
IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce Fellowship awarded for the Best Dissertation Proposal in Electronic Commerce, 1998-99.
DeVlieg Fellowship. For work in manufacturing related problems, Summer, 1998.
Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop on Computational Economics, June 1997.
U-M Rackham Research Partnership program. Grant to work on distributed intelligent systems for business applications. 1995.
Silver Medal, 2nd Annual NewMedia Invision Awards Contest, 1994 in the Personal/Professional Development category for the multimedia software program Velocity, Inc.
Finalist, 1st Annual NewMedia Invision Awards Contest, 1993 in the Higher Education category for the multimedia software program SKILLS Training.
Industrial Activities
- Founding VP, Kiva Systems Woburn, MA.
- Senior Advisor, Trade Extensions, AB. Upsalla, Sweden.
- Expert Witness, FreeMarkets vs. various.
- Expert Witness, Greenbrier & Russell, Inc. vs. TyTrade, LLC.
- Proprietor, iCommerce Consulting, LLC.
- Technical Advisor, Ektimisi, Cary, NC.
- Technical Advisor, TexBid, inc. Stamford, CT.
Background
Born in Boston, MA. Raised in Wausau, WI. Used to enjoy soccer, racquetball, and backpacking, sailing, and other outdoor activities, but now spend most of my free time trucking my kids to and from their games. Recently started playing hockey again.
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