Curriculum Vitae

David B. Bracewell

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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

Employment

Mar. 2011 - Present Language Computer Corporation
Research Scientist

I am currently leading a team of researchers and developers in creating advanced NLP techniques for sociolinguistic analysis of discourse. In addition, I am leading LCC’s commercial Question & Answering efforts.

Jan. 2008 - Mar. 2011 GE Global Research
Computer Scientist

A member of the computational intelligence lab taking part in research to improve the GE business and apart of shared vision projects for Lockheed Martin. 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

4 Management Awards, General Electric (2008 - 2010)
3 Patent Awards, General Electric (2009 - 2011)
Monbukagakusho, 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 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Computing 2011
- 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
- Applied Soft Computing
- 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.

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