Curriculum Vitae



David B. Bracewell
david - no spam - @davidbracewell.com
http://www.davidbracewell.com
Education
2007   Ph.D. Information Science and System Engineering
The University of Tokushima
Thesis: A Foundation for Japanese-English Cross-lingual Information Retrieval and Knowledge Acquisition from News
2004   M.S. Computer Science
The University of Central Florida
Courses: Adv. Artificial Intelligence, Language and Automata, Adv. Comp. Architecture, Software Engineering, Adv. Algorithms, Comp. Complexity, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Parallel & Distributed Databases, Evolutionary Computing, Natural Language Processing
2002   B.S. Computer Science
The University of Central Florida
2004   Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Certification
International TEFL Teacher Training
Employment
Jan. 2008 - Present   GE Global Research
Computer Scientist
A member of the computational intelligence lab taking part in research to improve the GE business. Major areas of research include natural language processing, text mining, information retrieval, blog analysis, social network analysis, web mining, web analytics and machine learning. Have lead development of two large scale discussion mining applications that include advanced technologies covering natural language process, information retrieval and text mining. Have filed 3 patents around technologies in these systems.
Jun. 2000 - Dec. 2007   LN3GS Software
Founder and Owner
Self-owned software company. Develop custom software and web applications on a contract basis as well as freeware/shareware.
Jan. 2006 - Oct. 2007   AIA International Advanced Information Institute
Lead Researcher
Lead researcher on a project to build a new type of news system for the Asian region. The designed system is fully self sufficient and includes technology for mining information/knowledge from text to aid in decision making.
Aug. 2004 - June 2006   The University of Central Florida
Software Engineer
Creation of a web based reporting system for the University of Central Florida. The reporting system was designed to report information on research grants.
Aug. 2003 - May 2004   The University of Central Florida
Research Assistant
Investigation of automatic spelling correction techniques for large databases. The project was funded by NASA. The main part of the project was to create a natural language information retrieval system for a set of space shuttle problem reports.
Teaching Experience
Spring 2004   The University of Central Florida
Teaching Assistant
Graduate Natural Language Processing
Summer 2006   The University of Tokushima
Lecturer
Introduction to Information Retrieval through Building a Search Engine
2006   The University of Tokushima
Lecturer
English for Research
Awards & Honors
  • Monbukagakusyo, Japanese government scholarship   (2006-2007)
  • Travel Grant from The University of Tokushima   (2007)
  • Travel Grant from C&C Foundation   (2007)
  • Travel Grant from C&C Foundation   (2006)
  • Florida Graduate Incentive Grant   (2003-2004)
  • Travel Grant from The University of Central Florida   (2001)
  • 4th Place Florida State Programming Contest   (1998)
Academic Activities
  • Organization Activies
    • Editor and Chief    International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications    2009 - Present
    • Guest Editor    Special Issue of the Journal Engineering Letters on Advances in Asian Language Processing    2007
    • Chair    Special Session on Frontiers of Language Processing and Information Retrieval for Asian Languages at the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition   
    • Chair    Special Session on Language Processing for Affective Computing at the 2006 International Conference on Intelligent Computing    2007
  • Board Memberships
    • Editorial Board    International Journal of Managing Information Technology    2009-Present
    • Editorial Board    International Journal on Web Service Computing    2010-Present
    • Editorial Board    International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology    20010-Present
    • Review Board Member    International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR)    2005-Present
    • Review Board Member    International Association of Engineers    2006-Present
  • International Conference Committee Memberships and Chairmanships
    • Technical Committee    International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering    2009
    • Program Committee    The 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Computing    2009
    • Program Committee    The 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Computing    2007
    • Scientific Committee    International Symposium and School on Advanced Distributed Systems    2006
    • Publication Chair    International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Affective Computing    2006
  • Reviewer
    • ACM Transactions on Asian Language and Information Processing   
    • International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control   
    • IEEE Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering   
    • IASTED Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing   
    • IASTED Intelligent Systems and Control   
    • IEEE CIS & RAM   
    • Webology   
Professional Memberships
  • IEEE   (2005-Present)
  • International Association of Engineers Member   (2006-Present)
  • Information Processing Society of Japan   (2005-2006)
  • Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Computer Science Honors Society   (2001-2004)
  • Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society   (1998-2000)
Invited Talks & Lectures
March 5th, 2006   The University of Tokushima Double Degree Symposium (Japan)
The KANT System
References
Furnished upon request.