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Im currently assistant professor in tohoku University at the Kameyama Laboratory. My research area is autonomous robotics, non-causal decision making on chip and bio-inspired computational structures and processes.
My secondary interests are in Quantum Logic Synthesis, Quantum finite State Machines and Quantum Decision Making and Quantum Computing used as simulation for Artificial Emotions.
Education
Sept. 2001 - Jan. 2009 - PhD in Computer Engineering
Portland State University, Portland, USA
September 1998 - September 1999 - DEA in Sciences Cognitives,
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
September 1997 - June 1998 - Maitrise Science Cognitives
University Bordeaux II
September 1996 - June 1997 - Licence Science Cognitives
University Bordeaux II
September 1994 - June 1996 - DEUG Biology et Physiology Cellulaire
University Bordeaux I
Work Experience
2009 - current - Emotional Robotics, assistant professor
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2004 - 2008 - HPC computing, GA
Portland State University, Portland, USA
September 2002 - April 2003 - NSF Grant,
Application of Decomposition to Data Mining,
Freiberg Technical University, Freiberg, Germany
May 2003 - September 2003 - Intel Grant,
Development of Robotic Head,
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
June 2000 - September 2001,
Research Assistant,
Institute of Informatics, Comenius niversity Bratislava
December 1999 - june 2000,
Research Assistant,
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Summer 1995,
Laboratory of marine biology ,
University Bordeaux I
Teaching Experience
2001 - June 2003
TA for LAB 2001, TA for EAS 102, TA for ECE 271/ ECE 272, ECE 572 TA for ECE 478/578
TA for LAB 2001, TA for EAS 102, TA for ECE 271/ ECE 272, ECE 572 TA for ECE 478/578
Awards
Student of the year 2007
Recipent of the Maseeh Student Scholarship 2008
Work Areas
Algorithms, Search, Planning, Decision Making:
Evolutionary Computation, Application of Genetic Algorithms to various
engineering and non-engineering related domains, Robotics (humanoid,
social robotics), algorithms, Quantum simulator
Logic Synthesis, Quantum Computing:
Future Technologies and Computing Paradigms:
Quantum Computing, Evolutionary synthesis of Quantum Circuits,
Synthesis of Quantum algorithms specified by n-local Hamiltonians,
Synthesis and optimizationof Quantum Circuits, biologically Inspired
Hardware and Use of Biological Properties in Hardware, Measurement
Based Computing
VLSI Design: Emotional Robotic Controllers on Chip
Logic Synthesis, Algorithms, Heuristics: Decomposition, Reversible Logic synthesis, Heuristics for Logic Synthesis, Technology dependent Quantum Logic Synthesis
Programming:
Bioinformatics, Dynamic Systems, Multi-agent systems, Genetic
Algorithms, Neural Networks, Software engineering, Parallel
programming, Data analysis etc.
Emotional Robotics, Artificial Life, Behavioral Representations:
Intelligent Humanoid Robotics:
Robotic emotions, Emergent emotional behaviors, Quantum emotions and
Quantum behaviors, Human-Robot interaction, Robot-robot interaction,
formal languages and system, Robotic theater
Multi-agent based approach:
Cellular Automata (CA), Edge of the Chaos, Classification fo CA's,
Neural Networks, Quantum CA, Distributed Intelligence and Storage,
Visual processing and algorithms
Complex agent-like approach:
Adaptive Autonomous Dynamic Agents, Game theory, Hedonic functions,
Internal Representations, Perceptual-Motor Relations and articulations,
Robotic agents
Philosophy:
Emergence of Life, Emmergence of Sens and Logic, Consciousness, Fast
Decision Making, Cognition, Emotion and Decison making, Emotion and
problem Solving - Aritifical Knowledge Representation, Knowledge
acquisition, Synthetic Silicon Life, Non-causal digital reasoning,
Digital non-determinism.