Resume

• 2005

  M.S.

  Received M.S. degree as part of Ph.D program.

  Robotics

  Ph.D

  Dissertation title: \"Search in the Physical World\"

  Robotics

  Robotics Student Organization (RoboOrg)

  Philosophy of Robotics Reading Group

  IEEE RAS Society

• 2001

  B.S/B.A

  High Honors in General Engineering and Philosophy

  Purdue Award for Undergraduate Engineering Excellence 2004

  Senior design project: \"Design and Construction of an Indoor Robotic Blimp for Urban Search and Rescue Tasks\"

  General Engineering

  Philosophy

  Sigma Xi

  Tau Beta Pi

  Phi Beta Kappa

  Golf Team

  Debate Team

• Data Mining

  Pattern Recognition

  Sensors

  Algorithms

  Labview

  Machine Learning

  Mobile Robotics

  Simulations

  LaTeX

  Computer Vision

  Signal Processing

  Matlab

  Natural Language Processing

  Robotics

  Computer Science

  C++

  Image Processing

  OpenCV

  Artificial Intelligence

  Python

  Hollinger

  Geoffrey

  Hollinger

  NASA: Marshall Space Flight Center

  University of Southern California

  Swarthmore College

  Carnegie Mellon University

  University of Pennsylvania

  Oregon State University

  Intel Research Pittsburgh

  Performed independent research under the supervision of Prof. Bruce Maxwell in the field of computer vision specializing in image segmentation and object recognition.

  Swarthmore College

  Summer Fellow

  Developed algorithms for personal assistance robots at the Intel Pittsburgh Research Labs. Focused on interleaving robotic search and action to perform useful tasks in homes and offices.

  Intel Research Pittsburgh

  Research Intern

  Worked with NASA engineers to design a pipe inspection robot for the space shuttle. Specialized in computer simulation and evolutionary design of fault-tolerant analog control for a piezoelectric inspection robot.

  NASA: Marshall Space Flight Center

  Oregon State University

  I am currently a faculty member at Oregon State University working as part of the Robotics Program in the School of Mechanical

  Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering.

  Assistant Professor

  Corvallis

  Oregon Area

  Corvallis

  Oregon Area

  Associate Professor

  Oregon State University

  Postdoctoral research in the Robotic Embedded Systems Lab and Viterbi School of Engineering at USC. Research included multi-robot coordination

  machine learning

  and active sensing for robotics applications.

  University of Southern California

  Visiting Researcher

  Worked with Prof. Vijay Kumar in the GRASP laboratory on multi-robot manipulation and distributed control. Presented a demo of my research at the 2006 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference.

  University of Pennsylvania

  Ph.D. Candidate

  Doctoral research with Prof. Sanjiv Singh in the Field Robotics Center on multi-robot coordination for firefighter assistance. Areas of focus included tracking using range-only sensors and coordinated search in dynamic

  uncertain environments.

  Carnegie Mellon University