Professional Activities

Chairmanships:

7th International Symposium on Intelligent Automation and Control (ISIAC 2008) (Chair)

12th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA 2008) (Co-Chair)

SMC 2007 Session on Control of Uncertain Systems (Chair)

CIRA 2007 Session on Mobile Robots (Chair)

Xpilot-AI Competition for CIG 2007 (Co-Organizer and Chair)

11th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (Co-Chair)

SMC 2005 Session on Energy for Dynamic Systems (Chair)

SMC 2005 Session on Multi-Agent Systems (Co-Chair)

SMC 2005 Session on Robot Learning (Co-Chair)

ICMA 2005 Session on Control (Co-Chair)

ICMA 2005 Session on Modeling and Simulation (Co-Chair)

IROS 2004 Session on Collective Robotic Systems (Co-Chair)

CEC 2004 Session on Evolutionary Intelligent Agents (Chair)

WAC 2004 Session on Multiple Robots and Cooperation (Chair)

CEC 2003 Session on Evolutionary Design and Evolvable Hardware (Chair)

IROS 2003 Session on Biologically Inspired Robots (Chair)

SCI 2003 Session on Intelligent Robots II (Chair)

WAC 2002 Session on Robot Control (Chair)

SOCO/ISFI 2001 Session on Neural Networks II (Chair)

WSES EC 2001 Session One on Evolutionary Computation (Chair)

WAC 2000 Session on Evolutionary Robotics (Organizer and Chair)

CIRA'99 Session on Multi-Legged Robots (Chair)

GECCO'99 Session on Robotics (Chair)

WAC'98 Session on Learning Cyclic Control/Behavior in Robots (Organizer and Chair)

WAC'98 Session on Walking Robots (Chair)

Program Committees:

International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC 2009)

2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics (ICAL 2009)

2009 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (CIDM 2009)

2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2008)

2008 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics (ICAL 2008)

30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2008)

2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008)

5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2008)

2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2007)

The 2007 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007)

The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA2007)

Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Complex Systems and Artificial Life (ANNIE 2007)

2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2006)

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006)

The Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2006)

The 2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2006)

11th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA 2006)

IEEE SMC International Conference on System of Systems Engineering 2006 (SoSE 2006)

The International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies: CCCT'05

The 2005 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2005)

The A-Life, Evolutionary Robotics and Adaptive Behavior track for GECCO 2005

The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2005)

The International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies: CCCT'04

The 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2004)

Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Complex Systems and Artificial Life (ANNIE 2003)

The 2003 Evolutionary Robotics Track for GECCO

The 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2003)

The 2002 Evolutionary Robotics Track for GECCO

The 2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence

The 2000 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

The 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Board of Associate Editors:

AutoSoft, International Journal on Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

Reviewer:

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

IEEE Systems Journal

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

AutoSoft, International Journal on Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design

International Journal of Modelling and Simulation

Journal of Robotic Systems

Grants and Awards:

REU supplement award for the NSF CPATH grant (CCF-0722199), Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software.
National Science Foundation, 15 May 2009 - 31 Aug 2009.
Principal Investigator. $5500.

World Automation Congress / AutoSoft Lifetime Achievement Award.
8th Biannual World Automation Congress, Waikoloa, Hawaii, October 2008.

CPATH CB: Collaborative: Can Humanitarian Open-Source Software Development Help Revitalize Undergraduate Computing Education?
National Science Foundation CCF-0722199, 1 Sep 2007 - 31 Aug 2009.
Principal Investigator. $70,421.

CTW CS Mellon Foundation Grant. Connecticut College, Trinity, Wesleyan Consortium in Computer Sciences (2005-2009).
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $800,000.

Extended Keck/Hughes Visiting Fellows Modules in Data Mining Grant.
Connecticut College, 2006.

NSF Math and Computer Science Scholarship Program.
National Science Foundation DUE-0123078, 2002-2006.
Principal Investigator. $385,000.

The W. M. Keck-Howard Hughes Medical Institute Visiting Fellows Modules in Emerging Fields Program Grant
Modules in Data Mining
Connecticut College, 2003.

SOCO/ISFI 2001 Best Paper Presented on 29 June 2001 Award.
Gait Evolution for a Hexapod Robot.

Named the Jean C. Tempel '65 Assistant Professor in Computer Science.
Connecticut College, 2000.

WAC 98 Best Paper Award for ISORA 98, 1998.
Locomotion Control Cycles Adapted for Disabilities in Hexapod Robots.

Graduate Traineeship in Robotics and Intelligent Control, 1994 - 1999.
National Science Foundation, $21,000 per year.

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Award, United States Navy, 1992.

Navy Commendation Medal, United States Navy, 1990.

Invited Talks:

Hexapods Learning to Walk
Event for the Reunion 2007
Connecticut College
June 2007. New London, Connecticut.

Evolutionary Computation for Learning Robot Control
Naval Postgraduate School
September 2005. Monterey, California.

Evolutionary Robotics, Cyclic Control, and Colony Agent Learning
Naval Postgraduate School
September 2005. Monterey, California.

Robotics at Connecticut College
Event for the Presidential Inauguration of Norman Fainstein
Connecticut College
May 2002. New London, Connecticut.

Learning Cyclic Control Programs for Hexapod Robots
The Endowed Chair Lecture Series
Connecticut College
February 2000. New London, Connecticut.

Evolving Gaits for Hexapod Robots Using Cyclic Genetic Algorithms
Michigan Technological University
December 1998. Houghton, Michigan.

Evolutionary Robotics and the Adaptive Systems Lab
Northern Michigan University
December 1998. Marquette, Michigan.

Evolving Gaits for Hexapod Robots Using Cyclic Genetic Algorithms
Northern Michigan University
December 1998. Marquette, Michigan.

Legged Robot Control Using Cyclic Genetic Algorithms
International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Semiotics (ISAS'97)
September 1997. Gaithersburg, Maryland.

The Stiquito, Cyclic Genetic Algorithms, and IU Robotics
Naval Postgraduate School.
July 1997. Monterey, California.

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