Research-Programmer / Knowledge-Engineer with a ~50/50 research/consumer split in experience.

My expertise is in (knowledge-based) Modeling and Simulation and Artificial-Intelligence, with a focus on scientific applications, coupled with an ability to push the norm by creating innovative applications in any domain. I often help with multi-disciplined problems, by leveraging my varied background. I am a uniting force as both a knowledge-worker and knowledge-engineer. I look forward to stimulating peer interaction on challenging projects (e.g. building an assisted problem-solving/knowledge-management environment for your domain). I particularly want to extend my Knowledge Representation & Reasoning skills. Seeking position (as a creative computational problem-solver), Research-Programmer, Knowledge-Engineer Systems-Analyst/Architect, Software-Engineer.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Artificial Intelligence (AI) coursework

Languages 19+years

Professional Organizations:

• AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) - life-member

• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and Computer Society - 10 years

• http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbobak - 50 groups

Work Experience:

• Represent state of student knowledge so can adaptively alter student experience. Lisp /KM Hadoop

• Medical-Informatics research (relating to clinical-trails) in Lisp /KM.

• including Natural-Language-Processing and conceptual-annotation for search

• development of two related ontologies

• http://bmir.stanford.edu/publications/view.php/a_practical_method_for_transforming_free_text_eligibility_criteria_into_computable_criteria

• http://rctbank.ucsf.edu/home/mb.htm _

• http://www.mindbox.com/NewsEvents/PressReleases/21OCT2002.pdf [Art*Enterprise] 3/02-10/02

• http://cas.dis.anl.gov up to 50% 5/03-5/04 [used Java Agent-based Simulation] http://repast.sourceforge.net/

• labs.gte.com, National Model-Based-Diagnosis Art] http://mike.bobak.googlepages.com/IAAI96-SSCFI.pdf 8/03~05

• lbl.gov [CLIPS&Protege.stanford.edu/Java/DB] Control of perfusion pumps on light microscope sample, monitoring incl. Machine-vision, Bio-ontology/reasoning/Kn-mngt for the experiment setup. & Grant proposal work. 11/04-12/05

• CME.com 2/06-06/06 (re)organizing trade-data validation code. [using CLIPS/Jess]

• Signal-Processing/Machine-Learning (startup) 06/06-[Lisp/etc] Protégé and Lisp

• Hospital Informatics/Machine-Learning ghx.com 02/07-05/07-[Lisp], MachineLearning speedup for financial-scientific [Lisp]

• Organize many levels of a very large knowledge based simulation projects.

• Brought over 18 programmers together to deliver a coherent product.

• Ran weekly (sub)group meetings, down to help solving any problem.

• Hiring, demo/design/install trips, prototyping to lead project direction.

• Taught group of 6 how to use a Rule-Based-shell for a reasoner-rewrite in Art*Enterprise.

• Projects included: Simulation-based, Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) & Real-Time control system.

• Being used in classroom, real life testing, to Navy officers how to save a simulated ship in crisis.

• IAAI99 'Automated Instructor Assistant for Ship Damage Control' http://www.aaai.org/Papers/IAAI/1999/IAAI99-110.pdf

• Worked between development and consulting, to help develop and install their very first product (Intelligent email reply).

• Helped on several Knowledge-Based business applications.

• Helped with several deployed Knowledge-Based business applications (ie. financial: mortgage, web based job finder).

• All with Art*Enterprise. See: http://www.brightware.com/eservice_solutions/

• More recently I worked 1/2year for the new version of the company: Mindbox.

• Wrote Lisp code (mainly GUI) for Qualitative Research Group. http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/NSF/cyclepad/aboutcp.html

• Qualitative/Quantitative Simulation, Model-Based Reasoning, Intelligent-Tutoring-Systems, and general Lisp programming.

• Prototyped communication and control of distributed simulation. [in CLIPS PVM etc] Agent wrapping of simulations with CLIPS+PVM, to describe then mix and match them. Other work as needed. Algo/Viz/Etc. Written up in a book about innovative distributed object application. Also used C++/Smalltalk/FORTRAN with PVM

• See: http://www.dis.anl.gov/DEEM/ /DIAS diaswp.pdf_ later for http://cas.dis.anl.gov

• Wrote fielded Expert System by myself at the end of grad-school, for the EPA, (EAD). [in Lisp rule-shell then CLIPS]

• Wrote molecular graphics package used in classes & for publications. [in C]

• Used machine-learning techniques for protein structure prediction.

• Wrote thesis on Knowledge-Based Simulation Environment. [Lisp/OPS5/C]

• Overseen by heads of the NCSA CompBio group and head of Biophysics http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/ncsa/Apps/CBdir.html

• Suggested scientific software path for Software Tools Group [National Center for Supercomputing Applications]

• Wrote molecular viz code for a professor; while writing testing code for Global Info Systems Tech. [in C]

• Maintained financial databases & daily report information. Organized worldwide mailing system.

• Wrote statistics code for stock predictions. [MUMPS and Maths-package]

• (Modeling then Acoustics teams) Started with GIS work, then moved to Physical-Modeling

• Provided research support from start to finish.

• Wrote and ran computer simulation code, compared output with field data. [FORTRAN]

• Did field measurements to back up predictions. (Team/Self; Local/US/World-wide)

• http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1987ASAJ...81..638J & help with others.

• Early work went into GRASS: http://grass.itc.it/intro/general.php