Address: 16321 Grande Vista Dr, Rockville MD 20855-1913
Email: kaufman@mli.gmu.edu
WWW:
http://www.mli.gmu.edu/kaufman
Education
B.A. in Mathematics, Wesleyan University,
1982
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, 1986
Ph.D. in Information Technology, George Mason
University, 1998
Relevant Work Experience
Research Assistant Professor, George Mason University, 1998-present
Assistant Director, George Mason University Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, 1994-present
Consultant/Developer, International Intelligent Systems, Inc., 1997-present
Facilities Manager, George Mason University Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, 1994-present
Research Assistant, George Mason University Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, 1988-1997
Research Analyst, Computer Sciences Corp., 1990-1991
Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Intelligent Systems Group, 1986-1987
Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, 1982-1986
Systems Analyst and Manager, National Computer Communications Corp., 1980-1982
Research Interests
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Machine Learning
Analysis of Machine Learning and Discovery Strategies
Major Projects
ISHED & ISCOD: Intelligent systems for heat exchanger design
INLEN: A multistrategy intelligent assistant for data mining and knowledge discovery
AQ15c and AQ18-19: Expanded systems for learning rules from examples and applying them
EMERALD: A unique tool for education and research in machine learning, and its predecessor, ILLIAN, which has toured 8 major science museums, and was estimated to have had over half a million visitors by the early nineties.
Programming Languages
Experienced in C, Lisp, Pascal, among others
Awards and Honor Societies
Rice Prize for Mathematics, Wesleyan University, 1982
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 1983
References available on request
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