Kenneth A. Kaufman

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

Publications


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