Dr. Knoblock is the Chief Scientist for Geosemble Technologies. He is also a Senior Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon. His current research interests include information integration, automated planning, machine learning, and constraint reasoning and the application of these techniques to geospatial data integration. He has published well over 100 articles, book chapters, and conference papers in information integration, planning, and machine learning. He served on the Senior Program Committee of the 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2004 National Artificial Intelligence Conferences and the Senior Program Committee of the 2004 International Semantic Web Conference. He also co-chaired the 1998 AAAI Workshop on AI and Information Integration, was program co-chair for the 2000 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling, and co-chaired the 2003 IJCAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web. He is currently the President-elect for the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling and is currently on the AAAI and ICAPS Executive Councils. He was recently named a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. |