Research Interests:

My Research interests include Computational Intelligence and Complex Systems Modeling, with application areas in defense, critical infrastructure and bioinformatics/computational biology. My research focus in computational intelligence involves fundamental research on the nature of these methods and how they can be used for data analysis, system optimization, and system integration. This includes researching the use of genetic algorithms and deep learning approaches.

Teaching Interests:

My teaching interests are also focused on the use of computational resources to enable complexity management for the design of complex systems. I offer the core of the Computational Intelligence specialty track as well as the introductory Systems Engineering course for our department core coursework.

Education:

  • PhD: Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Mechanical Engineering, May 2008.
    Dissertation: The Role of Information Flow in Engineering Optimization

  • M. S: Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Complex Adaptive Systems, December 2003.
    Thesis: Measuring Information Exchange Rate for Graph Based Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Optimization.

  • B. S: Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Mechanical Engineering, December 2001.

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